Text size The Federal Reserve, led by Jerome Powell, raised interest rates for the first time since 2018 earlier this month. Photo by Samuel Corum/Getty Images The most-watched yield curve is close to...
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Why Today’s Inflation Might Resemble the 1940s More Than the 1970s
Text size While the surge in energy prices has some likening the inflationary environment to the 1970s-80s, some observers think the postwar period is a better comparison. Here, pricey per-gallon cost...
Dow Falls 400 Points As Supply Disruptions Send Oil Prices Surging Higher
Topline The stock market tumbled on Wednesday as oil prices spiked yet again due to supply disruptions from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and investors face renewed inflation fears even after the Fede...
Analysts Say These Stocks Can Rally 30% Or More As Investors Navigate A ‘Perfect Storm Of Headwinds’
Topline With markets getting whipsawed by concerns over inflation, rising interest rates and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, analysts at one of Wall Street’s biggest firms still see opportunities despit...
History Shows Investors Who Buy During Bear Markets Will Likely See Huge Gains
Topline Stocks have been flirting with correction territory in recent months–and though the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite dipped into a bear market last week, historical data shows that investors ...
Stocks Jump As Investors Prepare For Bigger Fed Rate Hikes To Fight Inflation
Topline The stock market finished slightly higher and government bond yields surged on Tuesday as investors assessed the Federal Reserve’s more aggressive stance on fighting inflation, with a growing ...
Don’t Let The IRS Catch You With The Forgotten De Minimis Rule
Buried deep within the Internal Revenue Code lurks the almost forgotten De Minimis Rule (Photo By … [+] Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call) CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images Woe be to the municipal bond i...
Stocks Rise As Experts Call For Bigger Rate Hikes To Fight Inflation
Topline The stock market opened slightly higher and government bond yields surged on Tuesday as investors assessed the Federal Reserve’s more aggressive stance on fighting inflation, with a growing nu...
Can The Federal Reserve’s New Plan Beat Inflation?
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell Holds News Conference On Interest Rates (Photo by Alex … [+] Wong/Getty Images) Getty Images The U.S. economy is in an inflation-friendly environment. The Fed...
Three 8%-Plus Yields Insulated From Rising Rates
Closeup of “interest rates” text in a newspaper getty What’s better than an asset class that can deliver 8% in annual income like clockwork? How about one that’s actually poised to pop as ...
China Made Pro-Market Promises. Here’s What Analysts Are Saying.
Text size Workers at a construction site in Hong Kong on March 18, 2022. Isaac Lawrence/AFP via Getty Images Headwinds had battered Chinese markets for months—Covid-19 outbreaks, U.S. delisting concer...
How Will the Fed’s New Interest Rate Policy Affect Real Estate Prices?
Text size Rising mortgage rates will further restrict housing affordability. Brandon Bell/Getty Images About the author: Clare Losey is an assistant research economist at Texas A&M University’s Te...
The Stock Market Just Had Its Biggest Rally Since 2020. Enjoy It While It Lasts.
Text size It was the largest weekly gain for all three major U.S. indexes since November 2020. Michael Nagle/Bloomberg Drop a ball off a balcony, and it will bounce. Drop the market off an all-time hi...
Dow Gains Nearly 300 Points As Stocks Wrap Up Best Week Since November 2020
Topline The stock market continued to rebound on Friday—with the S&P 500 notching its biggest weekly gain in more than a year—as investors react positively to the Federal Reserve’s latest interest...
Fed Not Doing Enough to Fight Inflation, Fed President Says. He May Be Right.
President of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis James Bullard wants the Fed to move faster. Alastair Pike / AFP via Getty Images Text size St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank President James Bullard has...
The Fed Should Stop Targeting Prices
Blind businessman holding a dart. getty For the first time in more than three years, the Federal Reserve has raised its interest rate target, a move that it has been telegraphing since late 2021. Desp...
Analysts Reveal Their Top Stock Picks To Beat Stagflation And Outperform Choppy Markets
Topline Stocks have had one of their worst starts to the year in history amid the looming threat of stagflation—persistently high inflation coupled with stagnant economic growth, but analysts say it’s...
The Market Rose on the Fed’s Rate Hikes. What It Might Be Missing.
Text size Fed Chair Jerome Powell told reporters Wednesday the central bank had the tools to bring inflation down. Photographer: Julia Nikhinson/Bloomberg It may not rank with the “whatever it takes” ...
Federal Reserve’s Long-Awaited Rate Hike Is Here: Powell Announces 0.25% Increase
Topline The Federal Reserve announced a 0.25% interest rate hike on Wednesday—the first increase since 2018, while also forecasting a more-than-expected six additional hikes this year, as the central ...
Federal Reserve Alert: How to Trade Nasdaq, S&P After the Rate Hike
The day is finally here. Later this afternoon, the Federal Reserve will announce its first rate hike in quite some time. Investors have been fearful of a rate hike for several months now, part of the ...
Dow Jumps 400 Points As Stocks Continue To Rebound Ahead Of Federal Reserve Decision
Topline The stock market opened higher on Wednesday, adding to gains earlier this week, as investors await the Federal Reserve’s latest monetary policy decision, with the central bank expected to rais...
Cramer’s Mad Money Recap 3/15: Marvell, Amazon, CrowdStrike
When things look really horrible, and the markets have been down for days, don’t despair, Jim Cramer told his Mad Money viewers Tuesday. Instead, he said they should plot out their next moves, s...
Stock Market Today: Dow Rises, Fed Decision Ahead, Alibaba and JD.com Soar
Text size Fed Chair Jerome Powell will host a press conference at 2:30 p.m. Eastern. Graeme Jennings / POOL/AFP via Getty Images Stocks were moving higher Wednesday as markets readied for a long-await...
Most Wall Street Experts Now Predict Stagflation—Here’s What That Means For Investors And The U.S. Economy
Topline Professional investors are growing increasingly gloomy about the future, with the majority now predicting that stocks will fall into a bear market this year and the U.S. economy will be plague...
Why You Shouldn’t Take Action Right After Big News
Events like Federal Reserve decisions on interest rates are closely followed by investors, traders and the financial media. They’re also followed by the algorithm programs investment houses use to man...
If It Looks Like A Crash And Acts Like A Crash, It’s A Crash
Nasdaq market site, NYC getty The playwright Ibsen coined a phrase that morphed into “a picture paints a thousand words.” So here is a thousand words in one picture: The Nasdaq: up like a rocket, down...
Dow Falls 200 Points After Red-Hot Inflation Report And Failed Russia-Ukraine Talks
Topline Stocks fell once again on Thursday following another dismal inflation report—with consumer prices jumping 7.9% in February, while investors hoping for a resolution to the Russia-Ukraine confli...
Dow Jumps 800 Points As Stocks Take A Breather—But Worries Are Far From Over
Topline Stocks rebounded from a recent losing streak on Wednesday, with investors getting a temporary respite as recently surging energy prices moderated somewhat, though Wall Street remains on edge t...
Treasuries Are Selling Off. Blame Powell’s Comments on Half-Point Rate Hikes.
Fed chief Jerome Powell, shown Monday at a conference in Washington, D.C., said ‘nothing’ would prevent the central bank from raising rates by a half-point at a coming meeting if needed. S...