Topline The stock market ticked higher on Wednesday after the Federal Reserve reassured investors that it would “soon” begin raising interest rates in March as it looks to combat a decades-high surge ...
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Here’s What to Watch as the Fed Gets Set to Raise Rates and Shrink Balance Sheet
Anxiety is high as the Federal Reserve wraps its first meeting of the year. Will the central bank abruptly end its emergency bond-buying program ahead of schedule? Are more rate increases in store, an...
S&P 500 On The Brink Of A Crash
getty getty I’m no fan of being a bear. I’m a long bull and anyone who has read my material on Forbes for the last decade or so will have seen me make many bullish predictions of highs that came about...
Ten Predictions For 2022
What will the year 2022 bring for investors? getty Making predictions is always tricky, and short-term forecasts are seemingly more difficult than long-term forecasts because timing plays such an impo...
‘Market Jitters’ Have S&P 500 Flirting With Correction Territory, Dow Falls 300 Points
Topline Stocks plunged on Tuesday amid surging market volatility—a day after the three major indexes mounted an historic comeback from steep losses—as investors remain nervous about surging rates and ...
‘Catastrophic’ Stock Market Crash Isn’t Over—Here’s How Much Worse It Could Get
Topline As a weeklong sell-off that’s pushed major indexes down into bear-market territory intensifies, investment banks are warning clients the worst may be yet to come, with some experts warni...
Crypto Has Arrived- Why The U.S. Needs To Embrace It
Given the recent release of the whitepaper from the Federal Reserve analyzing the pros and cons of a U.S. central bank digital currency (CBDC), it seems a good time to take a fresh look at this issue....
Break The Retirement Mold With These 5 Ultra-High Yielders
Rearview shot of a senior couple out on a road trip on a sunny day getty “Buy and hope” investing has never been more hopeless. With bond yields doing a “moonshot” to 1.8%, they are now looking down a...
Stock Market Suffers Worst Week Since 2020. Here’s What Comes Next.
Text size The decline has been painful for investors who have been trained to buy on the dips. Michael Nagle/Bloomberg A bad start to 2022 just got a whole lot worse. The Dow Jones Industrial Average ...
Netflix Stock Crashes As Nasdaq Has Worst Week Since October 2020
Topline The stock market fell on Friday as the sell-off in tech stocks intensified after Netflix posted lackluster earnings—with the Nasdaq Composite falling deeper into correction territory and posti...
What Is The Importance Of Inflation For Investors?
Getty Images TL;DR: Inflation has a direct effect on consumer spending, which also affects consumer stocks. Inflation impacts the economy at large, but certain industries like consumer goods and the s...
The Fed Publishes A Discussion Paper
The Chinese Central Bank is rolling out a digital yuan into production to coincide with the Winter Olympics, the Fed is producing a discussion paper. 250 million people have downloaded the wallet app ...
2 Dangerous Dividends That’ll Be Wiped Out In ’22
Old yellow weathered painted background with grunge black danger sign and stripes getty The last time the Federal Reserve tried to taper its money-printing ways, the S&P 500 dropped 20% in 11 week...
We Looked At How The Stock Market Performs During Midterm Election Years–Here’s How 2022 May Be Worse
Will Democrats hang onto control, or can Republicans take Congress? If history is any guide, it won’t really matter for stocks because markets typically surge once election uncertainty is lifted. Stoc...
How We’ll Play Rising Rates For 7.3%+ Dividends In ’22
Closeup of “interest rates” text in a newspaper getty Today we’re going to make a couple crafty moves worthy of the canniest contrarian—and in doing so, we’ll grab reliable income plays ot...
Tech Is Falling Again. Why Apple, Tesla, and Other Tech Stocks Are Still Buys.
Text size Apple and other tech stocks have had a rough start to 2022. They could still be good picks. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Tech stocks are getting slammed yet again, for familiar reasons. Inve...
Stock Market Today: Global Shares Rise as U.S. Markets Pause for M.L.K. Jr. Day
Text size Wall Street trading will return in force Tuesday. Angela Weiss/AFP via Getty Images Global stocks moved slightly Monday in what is expected to be a quiet trading session, with U.S. markets c...
Inflation And Interest Rates Rise
Fed’s inaction raises probability of scary inflation headlines getty The inflationary storm front is here, and yet the Fed just hints at beginning to let interest rates rise in the future. The F...
Lael Brainard Says Inflation Is ‘Too High.’ She’s Open to a Rate Hike in March.
Text size Lael Brainard Jim Watson/AFP/Getty Images Cutting down inflation will be the Federal Reserve’s most important task for the foreseeable future, Fed Gov. Lael Brainard said at her confirmation...
Inflation, Omen Of Creative Destruction
Inflation is now running at the unconscionable rate of 7 percent per year. In the bad old days of the 1970s and the early 1980s, consumer price increases were regularly in the double digits. Inflation...
The Best Dividend Stocks For Rising Interest Rates
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Alibaba Stock, JD.com, and Others Are Soaring. Here’s Why and Who to Thank.
Text size An Alibaba Group sign David Becker/Getty Images Chinese tech stocks are soaring. Many have been looking cheap of late, and soothing words from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell only fueled...
Stocks Rally After Powell Says Fed Not Afraid To Raise Rates Further If Higher Inflation Persists
Topline The stock market jumped—erasing earlier losses—after Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell pledged in testimony before the Senate on Tuesday that the central bank wouldn’t hesitate to raise i...
Federal Reserve Not Afraid To Raise Rates Further If Higher Inflation Persists, Powell Says
Topline The stock market turned positive after Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell pledged in testimony before the Senate on Tuesday that the central bank wouldn’t hesitate to raise interest rates ...
The Federal Reserve Can Neither Suffocate You, Nor Elevate You
It’s all so predictable at this point: Fed minutes offering clues about its future plans come out, and the economic commentariat goes into a frenzy. Supposedly if the central bank “loosens,” it will “...
The Fed Is Ignoring the Money Supply and Letting Inflation Rip
Text size Farmers descended on Washington to protest high interest rates in 1979. Charles Harrity/AP/Shutterstock About the author: Robert Heller is a former member of the Federal Reserve Board of Gov...