Text size The Federal Reserve building in Washington. Samuel Corum/Bloomberg There is always a bull market. The trick is trying to find it. Let the pundits wrestle with Wednesday’s sharp decline in th...
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Don’t Fight The Fed – Fed Tightening Puts Investors In Harm’s Way
Federal Reserve’s inflation shift (characterized by banknote, gold and market graph line) getty “Don’t fight the Fed” was the bullish rallying cry that started in 2010. While t...
Forget Fed Rate Hikes. How It Handles Its $9 Trillion in Assets Is What Really Matters.
Federal Reserve Board Chairman Jerome Powell, shown late last year at a House hearing, faces some big policy decisions this year. Brendan Smialowsky/AFP/Getty Images Text size If there is one takeaway...
Fed Minutes Suggest More Stock-Market Turmoil Could Lie Ahead
Text size Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell. Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images Sometimes you need to read something in black and white to believe it. That may explain why the stock market sold off sharp...
Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Hits All Time High At $700 Billion Market Valuation
Topline Shares of billionaire Warren Buffett’s investing conglomerate, Berkshire Hathaway, continued to their new year rally on Thursday, bringing the company’s market value to a new high of over $700...
The Fed’s Great Unwinding Will Undercut Both Bonds And Stocks
From uptrend to selloff on way to shakeout getty The Federal Reserve’s tapering and interest-raising just swung from maybe later to for-sure now. That shift is the ominous inflation signal that ...
Major Cryptocurrencies—Including Bitcoin, Ethereum—Plummet After Fed Minutes Signal Looming Interest Rate Hikes
Topline The value of bitcoin, ethereum and other major cryptocurrencies plummeted Thursday after minutes from the Federal Reserve’s latest meeting signaled a possible shift towards more aggressive act...
Bitcoin Tanked After the Fed Minutes Were Released. Here’s Why.
Text size Proponents of Bitcoin argue that its limited supply should make it an inflation-proof asset akin to gold. Dreamstime Bitcoin slid sharply after the Federal Reserve released minutes of its De...
Stocks Tumble as Fed Minutes Confirm Rate Hikes Are Coming
Text size Interest rate hikes are coming. The stock market is taking note. Karen Bleier/AFP/Getty Images Stocks fell Wednesday after the minutes from the last FOMC meeting confirmed that the Federal R...
Stocks Plunge After Fed Minutes Show Central Bank Could Remove More Stimulus
Topline The stock market tanked on Wednesday after minutes from the Federal Reserve’s most recent meeting showed that the central bank could become more aggressive about removing stimulus and reducing...
A 3-Step Plan To Keep Your Dividends Safe (and Growing) In’22
Steps with Check Mark on Chalkboard – 3D Rendering getty The stock market is probably going to be a mess this year. With the Federal Reserve taking away the punch bowl it’s been providing since ...
Stocks Rally To Start 2022 As Investors Bet On Economic Recovery
Topline The stock market started off the new year on a high note Monday, rising slightly as investors bet the U.S. economic recovery will continue despite a surge in Covid cases over the holiday seaso...
Stock Futures Rise and Tesla Surges as a New Trading Year Begins
Text size A Wall Street sign outside the New York Stock exchange (NYSE) at Wall Street on November 30, 2020 in New York City. ANGELA WEISS/AFP/Getty Images Stock futures were rising Monday, suggesting...
Not Even GameStop Stock Can Fight the Fed
Text size A Tesla electric vehicle drives through the Las Vegas Convention Center loop at the CES 2022 show this past week. Patrick T. Fallon/AFP/Getty Images The stock market is supposed to be forwar...