The stock market and inflation: How the S&P 500 performs on CPI report days

Stock-market investors crowded the exits on Thursday, sending major stock indexes sharply lower a day ahead of another eagerly anticipated consumer-price index reading. Recent history may offer a clue...

Softer Housing Sales Are Hammering Demand for Lumber

Inflation and rising mortgage costs are putting a dent in the housing market, which is hurting lumber demand. Frederic J. Brown/AFP/Getty Images Text size You can almost hear the sound of falling lumb...

U.S. didn’t get any relief from high inflation in May – CPI to show another big gain

Wall Street is looking for a sign, any sign, that U.S. inflation is coming off a rapid boil. But they are unlikely to find much cooling off in May’s report on consumer prices. The consumer price index...

Opinion: Inflation is making everything we buy more expensive, and once stagflation hits things could get even worse

Last month I examined the culprits that are causing global inflation, including rising interest rates, persistent supply chain issues (China locking down cities), and climbing energy and fertilizer pr...

This big investor called inflation early and sees it above 7% at year’s end

Far from the bustle of Wall Street, inside his downtown Minneapolis office, Tim Magnusson got his first aching gut feeling about U.S. inflation in May of last year. That’s when U.S. government data sh...

Peak U.S. inflation? This obscure corner of the financial market says otherwise

In a little-known part of the financial market that’s had the most accurate reads on U.S. inflation so far, traders are pricing in an annual headline rate on the consumer-price index of 8.5% or higher...

SHIB Price Analysis: Technical indicators leave Shiba Inu bulls perplexed 

•SHIB/USD is currently priced at $0.000011 and has decreased by 5.80% over the past day  •The trading volumes have increased by 52.67% over the past day  •The technical indicators suggest a ...

Microsoft and Two Other Software Stocks for a Potential Recession

Text size Microsoft is a top pick of Bernstein software analyst Mark Moerdler for a potential recession. Drew Angerer/Getty Images The possibility of a bad recession is on everyone’s mind. On Tuesday,...

Home affordability has ‘collapsed’ in 2022. What to expect next, according to BofA

The double whammy of surging mortgage rates and skyrocketing home prices has led to “collapsed” housing affordability in America, according to Chris Flanagan’s team at BofA Global Research. The situat...

VeChain: Post recent rally, here’s what these indicators have to say about VET

Disclaimer: The findings of the following analysis are the sole opinions of the writer and should not be considered investment advice. For over three weeks, VeChain (VET) has been traversing in compre...

AMD, Pfizer, NIO, DocuSign, Campbell Soup, and Other Stocks for Investors to Watch This Week

It’s a relatively quiet week on the earnings calendar. Highlights will include J.M. Smucker on Tuesday, Campbell Soup on Wednesday, and DocuSign, NIO, and Vail Resorts on Thursday. Pfizer also hosts a...

Biden open to canceling $10,000 in student loans per borrower — what that means for your budget, credit score and tax bill

If $10,000 vanishes from your student debt, you may want to celebrate. This is a question millions of student loan holders may be facing soon if President Joe Biden proceeds with a controversial plan ...

3 key indicators traders use to determine when altcoin season begins

It’s widely accepted that the fate of the cryptocurrency market depends largely on the performance of Bitcoin (BTC), which makes times like these for crypto traders who prefer to invest in altco...

Here Are 3 Indicators Suggesting XRP Is Bouncing from $0.4

Arman Shirinyan Numerous indicators suggest that coin is in process of reversal after months of beartrend XRP’s price performance was mostly replicating the movement of large caps like Bitcoin a...

Ethereum Key Indicators Suggest Strengthening Case For More Losses

Ethereum found support near $1,760 and corrected higher against the US Dollar. ETH is now facing a major resistance near $1,850 and $1,880. Ethereum is slowly moving higher and trading above $1,800. T...

Investors may be in for this rude surprise: History shows inflation can take years to return to normal even when Fed hikes above 10%

History can be a powerful tool, particularly in a high-inflation environment like this one in which no suitable economic model seems to apply. Inflation — running at 8.3% as of April, near a four-deca...

Opinion: The Federal Reserve is shrinking its balance sheet under duress, which makes a soft landing nearly impossible

The Federal Reserve has begun to downsize its balance sheet. What does that mean for you? First, you must understand where the balance sheet’s expansion came from and why that policy was pursued. Then...

Treasury Secretary Yellen Says She Was Wrong About Inflation

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said Tuesday her inflation projections were wrong in statements she made last year as consumer prices began a surge to their highest level in decades. “I think I was wr...

5 economists and real estate pros predict the housing market this summer

Want to buy a home? Here’s what pros say you may want to know this home buying season. Getty Images/iStockphoto Home prices have been climbing, as have mortgage rates (you can see the lowest mortgage ...

GameStop, Salesforce, Netflix, Alphabet, Nvidia, and Other Stocks to Watch This Week

Text size Uncredited U.S. stock and bond markets will be closed Monday for Memorial Day. A handful of major companies report later this week, with the economic-data highlight being jobs Friday. HP and...

Opinion: 5 large companies that will emerge from the tech wreck as even more fearsome

The Nasdaq Composite Index’s rebound after seven weeks of losses restored some faith in technology stocks. After all, more than half of Nasdaq-member companies were until recently down 50% or more fro...

U.S. home prices rise at new record rate, Case-Shiller shows

The numbers: U.S. home prices rose again in March even as higher mortgage rates began to bite, leaving prices at all-time highs. The S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller 20-city price index was up a record ...

Salesforce earnings expected to serve as business-spending bellwether amid economic uncertainty

Salesforce Inc. is expected to have a much more subdued earnings report in the coming week as fear of a recession and inflation, as well as COVID shutdowns in China and the war in Ukraine, are prompti...

Looking for $100,000 Salary? See How Much the Biggest U.S. Companies Pay Workers

By John Stensholt and Nate Rattner May 31, 2022 7:00 am ET Wages for the median workers at the majority of big American companies are higher than they were before the pandemic, with the tight job mark...

Biden Will Meet With Fed’s Powell Tuesday to Discuss Economy

Text size President Joe Biden has said getting inflation under control is his “top priority.” Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images President Joe Biden is set to meet with Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell o...

Here’s the asset investors want if inflation stays high, says Deutsche Bank. And crypto isn’t even ‘on the radar’

Home is where the heart is, and the money, if inflationary trends don’t cool. That’s according to the latest Deutsche Bank survey of investors, who say that property will be their most preferred buy-a...

GameStop, Salesforce, Netflix, Alphabet, Nvidia, and Other Stocks for Investors to Watch This Week

Text size Uncredited U.S. stock and bond markets will be closed Monday for Memorial Day. A handful of major companies report later this week, with the economic-data highlight being jobs Friday. HP and...

Market Indicators Still Signal Extreme Fear Among Crypto Investors  – crypto.news

The overall sentiment in the crypto market continues to linger around the negative territory, as bulls witness one of the longest bearish trends that surfaced when Terra crashed. This is the culminati...

Durability of U.S. stock- market bounce in question as inflation worries linger ahead of payrolls report

Investors took a breather this week as U.S. stocks bounced back from a weeks long selloff and the latest reading on inflation offered glimmers of optimism to those hoping for a peak in price pressures...

Avoiding Recession May Require Moving the Inflation Goal Post

Fed chief Jerome Powell, shown at a May 4 press conference, has said the central bank remains committed to bringing inflation down to 2%. Al Drago/Bloomberg Text size Signs of economic weakness are pi...

The Stock Market Finally Had a Winning Week. Why It Might Not Last.

Text size Ed Yardeni, founder of Yardeni Research: “We now are raising the odds of a recession from 30% to 40%.” Christopher Goodney/Bloomberg The stock market ended its multiweek losing streak, and l...

Stocks close sharply higher after inflation data; Dow snaps longest weekly losing streak since 1932

U.S. stocks ended sharply higher Friday, with all three major benchmarks booking weekly gains, after the Federal Reserve’s preferred measure of inflation for April had the smallest increase in a year ...