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Stocks Historically Don’t Bottom Out Until the Fed Eases
Another week of whipsaw stock trading has many investors wondering how much farther markets will fall. Investors have often blamed the Federal Reserve for market routs. It turns out the Fed has often ...
The 60/40 Stock and Bond Strategy’s Time Has Come Again
Text size Dreamstime It may be time for investors to return to one of the oldest of portfolio management tools to cope with the new bear market. That would be the traditional combination of 60% stocks...
Interest Rates Are Well Below What Academic Formulas Suggest, Fed Report Says
Several simple mathematical formulas used to inform where interest rates should be set under current economic conditions show that high inflation would call for the Federal Reserve to set rates betwee...
Why stock-market investors are ‘nervous’ that an earnings recession may be looming
Investors are anxious the stock market may be facing an earnings recession, potentially leading to deeper losses after the S&P 500 index just suffered its worst week since March 2020. “It’s prett...
5 indicators traders can use to know when a crypto bear market is ending
The bull market is gone and the reality of a long crypto winter is surely giving traders a bad case of the shivers. Bitcoin’s (BTC) price has fallen to lows not even the bears expected, and some inves...
These Two Indicators Continue to Point to Bitcoin Being Bearish in Short Term
Tomiwabold Olajide Bitcoin fell within week amid sell-off in global risk assets to reach low of $20,079 According to CryptoQuant CEO Ki-Young Ju, 15,000 BTC flowed into Bitfinex from Coinbase recently...
HELIUM Price Analysis: HNT Bulls Started a Successful Recovery. Technical Indicators Should not be Ignored!!
After a long downtrend movement, the HNT price has started recovering over the daily chart, dominating the bears. The crypto asset is trading above the 20, 50, 100, and 200 daily moving average. The H...
Here’s the comment from Powell that could make it hard for the Fed to slow down the pace of interest-rate hikes
The Friday before the Federal Reserve’s interest-rate decision will be most remembered for the surprise acceleration in consumer prices, which took inflation to a fresh 40-year high. But there was ano...
Retirees Should Gird for a Long Run of High Inflation. Here’s How.
Retirees and seniors who are feeling the pinch of higher prices could be in for a long struggle as inflation shows few signs of peaking. But financial experts say there are some smart strategies that ...
How to Invest Your Cash for the Best Yields, Without Too Much Risk
Inflation is stubbornly high and interest rates on savings accounts aren’t anywhere close to keeping pace. While the yield on a two-year Treasury is now 3.28%, up from just 0.17% a year ago, the avera...
70% of economists say America is headed for a recession: poll. How to invest now
Worried about a recession? Here are some tips from pros Getty Images/iStockphoto Many economists say the United States will fall into a recession next year, according to a new poll by the Financial Ti...
‘The economy is going to collapse,’ says Wall Street veteran Novogratz. ‘We are going to go into a really fast recession.’
Veteran investor and bitcoin bull Michael Novogratz doesn’t have a rosy outlook on the economy, which he described as headed for a substantial downturn, with the likelihood of a “fast recession” on th...
What the Fed Rate Hike Means for Your Savings, Credit Cards and Loans
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Fed sees inflation topping 5% in 2022 and then falling rapidly due to higher rates
The Federal Reserve on Wednesday predicted U.S. inflation would exceed 5% by the end of 2022 — much higher than its most recent forecasts — underscoring its more aggressive strategy in raising interes...
Read for the Fed Preview. Stay for the Trouble Brewing in the Mortgage Market.
Recent inflation data are something of a game-changer for monetary policy. Expectations for what will come out of the Federal Reserve’s meeting this week and beyond have quickly ratcheted higher, spel...
At Least 2 Indicators Show That Bitcoin Reached Bottom: Details
Arman Shirinyan Here’s some “cold comfort” for those bulls who left cryptocurrency market According to data provided by the Director of Global Macro at Fidelity Jurrien Timmer on his...
A 75-basis-point hike? Here are 3 ways the Fed can sound more hawkish this week
The Federal Reserve’s plan to raise its benchmark rate to a neutral level, around 2.5%, by the end of the year is under pressure after a surprisingly strong May consumer-inflation data. “The May CPI w...
S&P 500 Poised for Bear Market as Stock Futures Drop
The S&P 500 was on track to open in bear market territory, while global stocks tumbled and bond yields jumped as fears over inflation rattled investors around the world. Futures for the S&P 50...
U.S. Stocks Poised to Open Lower on Monday Ahead of Fed Week
Stocks are poised to open lower on Monday. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images) Getty Images Text size U.S. stocks were poised for a lower opening on Monday ahead of the Federal Reserve’s decision on...
Inflation Has Become a Global Problem. Where the U.S. Ranks
David Paul Morris/Bloomberg Text size This commentary was issued recently by money managers, research firms, and market newsletter writers and has been edited by Barron’s. U.S. Gets Ranked on In...
Federal Reserve Meeting, Oracle and Adobe Earnings, May Inflation Data, and More for Investors to Watch This Week
It will be a quiet week on the earnings calendar between earnings seasons. The most important event of the week for investors will be the conclusion of the Federal Reserve’s interest rate-setting comm...
Dow tumbles as inflation reading triggers market shock waves: What investors need to know
From Wall Street to Main Street, fears that the U.S. economy could be sliding into 1970s-style “stagflation” have been percolating. References to the sticky situation appeared in news headlines all we...
Inflation is Hot and Stocks Are Cold. Now the Fed Needs to Rethink Its Rosy Projections.
Text size As the Federal Reserve’s rate-setting committee meets this coming week, it will have to confront the challenge of controlling higher-than-anticipated Inflation, driven by rising food and fue...
Suze Orman says to do this right now if you’re worried about inflation
The rate of U.S. inflation reached a 40-year high of 8.6% in May as overall prices for things including rent, gas and food all remain on the rise. Financial commentator and host of the “Women & Mo...
Hot Housing Market Keeps Home Foreclosures at Bay
The U.S. moratorium on home foreclosures ended nearly a year ago, but the sizzling housing market is still protecting many delinquent mortgage borrowers from losing their homes. The pandemic that wipe...