Interest rates are heading higher, and the economic toll from the rapid, ongoing rise in the cost of credit is only starting to unfold. But higher rates won’t fully fix the inflation problem. There ar...
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Stocks Higher, Week Ahead, Apple, Warren Buffett-5 Things To Know
Five things you need to know before the market opens on Monday, November 7: 1. — Stock Futures Edge Higher With Fed Path, Mid-Terms In Focus U.S. equity futures edged higher Monday, while the do...
Fed Rate Hikes Spawn 5% Yields for Safe Bonds
While the Federal Reserve’s interest-rate increases have sent stock prices reeling, they have sent bond yields soaring. And that has made bonds attractive for those of us looking to buttress the fixed...
Federal Reserve: Rising Rates Raise Two Key Questions
Fed Chair Jerome Powell at news conference following FOMC meeting, Nov. 2. (AP Photo/Patrick … [+] Semansky) Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. Fed Chair Powell confirmed ...
Higher Rates Hammer Home Buyers—and Make Mortgage REITs Lucrative for Investors
It’s instructive and often amusing to see how the popular media cover economic and financial news. You can get a handle on the public’s sentiment from how they treat those topics, which usually varies...
How Much Did The Fed Raise Interest Rates This Week?
Getty Images Key takeaways The Federal Reserve hiked interest rates for the sixth time this year on Wednesday The 75 basis point (0.75%) rate hike is the fourth consecutive hike of its size Though inf...
Recession Concerns Grow As Amazon Pauses Hiring And Major Tech Companies Announce Layoffs This Week
Topline Amazon announced plans Thursday to implement a corporate hiring freeze, as the country’s second biggest company contends with rising inflation and economic uncertainty—becoming the latest comp...
Why The Fed’s December Meeting May Help Signal Peak Interest Rates
The Fed’s November rate announcement may have set up a slightly more dovish stance for monetary … [+] policy as we enter 2023 Photographer: Al Drago/Bloomberg © 2022 Bloomberg Finance LP O...
Fed Raises Interest Rates Another 75 Basis Points—Further Pushing Borrowing Costs To Highest Level Since Great Recession
Topline The Federal Reserve on Wednesday signaled it may soon ease up on its most aggressive economic tightening campaign in three decades as it raised interest rates by another 75 basis points—furthe...
The Fed’s Next Rate Hike Is Coming. Why Powell Won’t Say the End Is Near.
The Federal Reserve will fire its next salvo in the war against inflation on Wednesday afternoon. That is likely to include an interest-rate increase of 0.75 percentage points and a hawkish tone from ...
The Fed Makes Its Decision Wednesday. Expect a Big Move in Stocks.
The Federal Reserve’s big announcement on interest rates is Wednesday. The stock market will likely make a large move—in one direction or the other. The Fed is widely expected to lift its target for t...
What The Fed’s November Rate Hike Means For Investors
Getty Images Key takeaways The U.S. central bank is preparing to release November’s Fed rate hike decision by Wednesday Investors and economists widely expect the Fed to hike interest rates by 0.75% i...
Stocks Poised to Fall Monday
U.S. stocks are poised for a slightly lower open on Monday ahead of another busy week of earnings and the Federal Reserve’s latest decision on interest rates on Wednesday. At 6:22 p.m. Eastern time Su...
Rising Markets Seem to See the Fed Easing. It’s Too Early for That.
What everybody knows isn’t worth knowing, according to market wisdom. The Federal Reserve will raise its key federal-funds target rate by 75 basis points this coming week, as we all know, from the cur...
Inflation Is Getting Less Scary
Federal Reserve Board Chairman Jerome Powell laughing (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images) Getty Images The Federal Reserve’s speedy interest rate raising is taking effect – in business and...
Don’t Beat Yourself Up if You Missed the 9.62% I Bond Yield
People are rushing into I bonds so fast that the only place you can buy them, the government’s TreasuryDirect web site, crashed. The reason why investors are flocking to the site is that Oct. 28 is th...
Why A Strong Dollar Is Not As Good As You Think
A strong dollar sounds great. Here is where it is not so great for U.S. companies and investors. getty To most people, a strong currency means a strong country. Weak countries have weak currencies. St...
Why Consumers May Be in Better Shape Than We Think
Why Consumers May Be in Better Shape Than We Think getty Economists’ expectations for a downturn in the next year are so high that the recent good news — the economy grew at a 2.6% annual rate in the ...
How A Strong Dollar Hurts Europe + Emerging Markets
Burning US five and one dollar bills, London, 8th August 2011. (Photo by Tom Stoddart/Getty Images) Getty Images Is a strong dollar all good? Depends where you sit in the global economy. For sure the ...
Microsoft And Alphabet’s $250 Billion Stock Plunge Fuels Fears Of Earnings Recession
Topline Shares of Microsoft and Alphabet extended losses Wednesday morning after the technology giants slashed earnings forecasts for the rest of this year as a result of the increasingly murky econom...
This Isn’t the Bottom and Recession Isn’t Priced In, Goldman Says
Markets haven’t priced in a recession, according to analysts at Goldman Sachs Equities and credit markets are pricing in a lower risk of recession than rates and currency traders, though no asset clas...
David Einhorn Is Winning Big By Being Bearish On Stocks And Bullish On Inflation
David Einhorn’s Greenlight Capital returned 4% net for the third quarter, bringing its year-to-date return to an impressive 17.7% at a time when most hedge funds are in the red—and some massivel...
The Stock Market Had a Great Week, but It Hasn’t Gone Anywhere in a Month. Inside a Very Volatile Market.
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Stocks Lower, Tesla, IBM, AT&T And Philp Morris -5 Things To Know
Here are five things you must know for Thursday, October 20: 1. — Stock Futures Slip Lower As Treasury Yields Extend Climb U.S. equity futures slipped lower Thursday as investors pulled away fro...
Goldman CEO Becomes Latest Bank Head With Gloomy Recession Prediction
Topline Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon became the latest investment bank bigwig to offer a gloomy economic forecast Tuesday, as most concur the Federal Reserve’s fight to tackle inflation, elevated p...
Get Ready For Another Lumber Rally As Homebuilders Anticipate 2023 Rebound
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS – APRIL 05: Stacks of lumber are offered for sale at a home center on April 05, … [+] 2021 in Chicago, Illinois. Lumber prices have more than tripled since last April due...
Recession? No – Interest Rates Still Too Low
The poky Fed interest rate elevator has far to go getty To cause a recession, short-term interest rates need to be much higher. Despite the Federal Reserve’s rate-raising, the inflation-friendly...
The Fed Has Another Problem. States Are Doling Out Stimulus Funds
A spending spree is coming, and it may do more harm than good. An analysis by Deutsche Bank economists shows that 20 U.S. states have recently enacted, or are in the process of enacting, stimulus prog...
Don’t Expect the Stock Market to Rally, Even if GOP Wins Control of Congress
The outcome of the midterm elections on Nov. 8 could disappoint investors, regardless of which party they support. According to Wall Street lore, stocks usually perform strongly following the midterms...