Topline Markets plunged Friday after the White House said Russia could invade Ukraine “any day now,” including during this month’s Winter Olympics, a prospect which led panicked investors to dump stoc...
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Two Senior Federal Reserve Staffers Made Trades Amid Central Bank’s 2020 Stimulus
Topline Two senior Federal Reserve staffers reported a series of financial trades as the central bank was putting in place historic levels of stimulus to prop up the economy at the onset of the Covid-...
Inflation Is Surging. Here Are Some Portfolio Changes to Consider.
Market sentiment changes awfully fast these days. Rising concerns about the impact of interest-rate hikes pushed the S&P 500 down more than 5% in January (with the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite Inde...
Dow Plunges 500 Points As ‘Market Anxiety’ Returns After Latest Inflation Surge
Topline The stock market plunged on Thursday after a worse-than-expected inflation reading—with consumer prices spiking 7.5% in January—raised investor concerns that the Federal Reserve could tighten ...
‘Market Anxiety’ Returns After Latest Inflation Surge, 10-Year Treasury Jumps Above 2%
Topline The stock market fell in volatile trading on Thursday after a worse than expected inflation reading—with consumer prices spiking 7.5% in January—raised investor concerns that the Federal Reser...
Bitcoin’s Price Isn’t Done Falling. How It Could Drop to $10,000.
Text size Stifel’s top equity strategist thinks Bitcoin prices could sink to $10,000. Dreamstime.com The bull case for Bitcoin is that it powers up to $100,000, from recent prices around $43,000...
Top 7 Types Of Investments For 2022: Explained
getty Key Takeaways 2022 is set up to be an interesting year. Inflation is running rampant, interest rates are set to rise and the stock market is still topsy-turvy. One of the best ways to navigate ...
Be Careful About Changing Your Investment Plan To Adjust For Inflation
Businessman planning and analyse investment marketing data. getty If one financial term is the hot topic for 2022, it is “inflation.” Inflation worries are showing up in everything from political news...
Fed Designs Digital Dollar That Handles 1.7 Million Transactions Per Second
As the race against China’s development of its central bank digital currency (CBDC) known as the digital yuan continues, the U.S. Federal Reserve accomplished a feat in testing a design for a U.S. dig...
The Jobs Report Reveals a Booming Labor Market. Here’s Where Interest Rates Are Headed.
Text size President Joe Biden speaking about the January jobs report. Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images Good news for Main Street, not so good news for Wall Street. Once again, a booming labor market is like...
Stocks Jump After U.S. Economy Adds Back 467,000 Jobs In January
Topline The stock market jumped on Friday while bond yields surged after the U.S. economy added back a much higher-than-expected 467,000 new jobs in January, a sign to investors that the Federal Reser...
Stocks Fall, Bond Yields Surge After U.S. Economy Adds Back 467,000 Jobs In January
Topline The stock market fell on Friday while bond yields surged after the U.S. economy added back a much higher-than-expected 467,000 new jobs in January, a sign to investors that the Federal Reserve...
Why The US Is Taking So Long To Build A Digital Dollar
conceptual finance image of American one hundred dollar bill and binary code of one and zero getty What Happened On January 20th 2022, the US Federal Reserve Board released its initial concept paper f...
How To Find Inflation-Protected Payouts For 40% Per Year
Newspaper headline “Oil prices jump” getty As the stock market returns to Planet Earth, we contrarians will have an opportunity to cherry pick some bargains. This is a good thing for us in...
An Interesting Triangle Pattern Is Forming In The Gold Market
While many financial markets — from tech stocks to cryptocurrencies — have experienced wild gyrations over the past year or so, gold has barely gone anywhere. Gold’s lackluster performance is even mor...
Use Short-Term Corporate Bonds Like These 4 To Wait Out The Fed’s Coming Rate Hikes
Fed rate hikes anticipated throughout 2022 getty It’s now official, the Federal Reserve is loading up for its anti-inflation rate increases. The Fed’s reasoning for raising interest rates is well docu...
This Is What a Stock-Market Earnings Slowdown Looks Like. Things Could Take a Turn for the Worse.
Text size It’s been a painful time for investors hoping that earnings could drive stocks higher. Even the rallies are stomach-churning. Michael Nagle/Bloomberg Stop me if you’ve heard this one before:...
History Says Federal Reserve-Induced Stock Rout Won’t Last
TOPSHOT – Peter Tuchman, floor trader, reacts as he works on the floor during the opening bell on … [+] the New York Stock Exchange on March 9, 2020 in New York. – Trading on Wall St...
The Transformation of Spanish University Is Being Financed Outside of Spain
L’Auberge Espagnole is a Cedric Klapisch movie from 2002 that is a joy to re-watch every few years. Starring Romain Duris and Audrey Tautou most notably, the excellent film (eventually made into a tri...
Treasury Has Self-Hosted Wallets And Adding Crypto To BSA On 2022 Agenda
First reported by CoinDesk, the Semiannual Agenda and Regulatory Plan of the U.S. Department of the Treasury, which includes the most important regulations that are expected to be issued, indicate two...
When Is the Next Recession Coming? Here’s How to Time It
Fake it ‘til you make it might work in Silicon Valley. It’s a less practical strategy for the Federal Reserve, which looks ready to compound one mistake with another. The central bank’s statement on W...
Housing Market Is the Fed’s Frankenstein, and It Won’t Be Easily Tamed
Fed chief Jerome Powell says there is an ‘element of uncertainty around the balance sheet’ and the central bank’s plans to shrink it from the pandemic-inflated $9 trillion at which it now stands. Grae...
If Washington Wants To Do Something Substantive About Shortages . . .
(Photo by Thomas A. Ferrara/Newsday RM via Getty Images) Newsday via Getty Images The administration has pointed to supply chain problems as the cause of many of the nation’s economic ills. Most espec...
The Reasons Why A War In Ukraine Will Make Inflation Worse
A Russian tank rolls during a military drills at Molkino training ground in the Krasnodar region, … [+] Russia, Tuesday, Dec. 14, 2021. (AP Photo) ASSOCIATED PRESS With Russia massing troops at ...
GDP Surged But Americans Are Struggling With Inflation—Record 79% Say It Will Get Worse
Topline Despite solid economic growth, a record number of Americans predict higher inflation, according to a … [+] new Gallup poll. Joe Raedle/Getty Images Key Facts The U.S. economy grew 6.9% i...
Inflation and the Fed: Why Wall Street Is Misdiagnosing Pandemic Economics
About the authors: Larry Hatheway and Alex Friedman are the co-founders of Jackson Hole Economics, and the former chief economist and chief investment officer, respectively, of UBS. The Federal Reserv...