Financial health dipped in 2022, and consumers aren’t ready for a downturn: CFPB

Americans’ financial health slid by some measures in 2022 amid rising consumer prices, the end of pandemic-era government benefits, and even a return to riskier alternative financial services like tit...

Treasury yields end higher after U.S. inflation reading

Treasury yields ended a holiday-shortened New York trading session higher on Friday, cementing a weekly increase, after the release of the U.S. personal consumption expenditure price index, the Federa...

Inflation Is Slowing Down, PCE Data, the Fed’s Preferred Measure, Shows

Inflation is slowing, but consumers aren’t spending as much as hoped this holiday season, data showed Friday. The core personal-consumption expenditures price index, or PCE deflator, was up 0.2% in No...

Amid inflation and recession fears, 10 money moves you should make in 2023

Getty Images/iStockphoto While inflation is cooling, projections still point to elevated consumer prices next year. What’s more, recession threats remain high, unemployment may rise and investors are ...

The stock market is tumbling because investors fear recession more than inflation

A stock-market paradox, in which bad news about the economy is seen as good news for equities, may have run its course. If so, investors should expect bad news to be bad news for stocks heading into t...

The Fed Is Making a Mistake—and the Stock Market Will Pay the Price

We all make mistakes—but the Federal Reserve may be making a bigger one than most. That could mean another difficult year for the stock market in 2023. Those concerns were front and center this past w...

The Fed Will Lift Rates at Its Meeting Today. What to Expect After That.

The Federal Reserve’s efforts to tame runaway inflation appear to be working, but there is still a long way to go. Investors rejoiced on Tuesday, sending stocks higher after the release of a fifth-str...

Opinion: Opinion: The Fed should pause rate hikes since inflation has slowed — it won’t

The Federal Reserve should declare an immediate cease fire in its war against inflation and hold its benchmark interest rate steady instead of raising the federal funds by a half percentage point to a...

Vanguard sees a recession in 2023 — and one ‘silver lining’ for investors

The last 12 months was a year of fast-rising inflation, fast-rising interest rates and fast-rising questions about a future recession. Prices went up while stock markets and savings account balances w...

CPI days have been among the most volatile for stocks this year. Here’s what to expect ahead of Tuesday’s report

Many investors are hoping that beaten down U.S. stocks will finish 2022 with a “Santa Claus rally” after the S&P 500 logged back-to-back monthly gains for the first time in more than a year in Oct...

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Opinion: Opinion: Household wealth falls $13.5 trillion, second worst drop on record

American households lost about $6.8 trillion in wealth over the first three quarters of 2022 as the stock market SPX, -0.73%   DJIA, -0.90%   COMP, -0.70% shed more than 25% of its value, the Federal ...

Gold prices log highest finish in just over a week after U.S. inflation data

Gold prices on Friday marked their highest finish in just over a week, after the U.S. November producer-price inflation came in slightly higher than expected. Price action February gold GC00, -0.07%  ...

Why stock-market investors shouldn’t count on a ‘Santa Claus’ rally this year

Investors, like kids on Christmas Eve, have come to expect Santa Claus will get down the chimney, march over to Wall Street and deliver the rewarding gift of a stock-market rally. This year, however, ...

Cathie Wood says the better historical parallel for the current high inflation environment is World War I, not the 1970s

Ark Invest CEO Cathie Wood says investors are looking at the wrong historical period in making comparisons with the current high inflation environment. “If you go back to the 19-teens, then the period...

The U.S. economy won’t collapse under Fed’s ‘weight’ based on the performance of these sectors despite inflation and oil risks

Investors are trying to read the tea leaves in a choppy U.S. stock market to gauge whether its recent run higher can continue after Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell unleashed bullish sentiment at t...

Slowing Inflation Isn’t Good for All Stocks. The Challenge That Tesla and Others Could Be Facing.

Inflation may have peaked, which could be bad news for stocks that have benefited from higher prices. It has taken time, but the market has finally coalesced around the idea that inflation won’t get h...

Opinion: Opinion: High debts and stagflation will bring mother of all financial crises

NEW YORK (Project Syndicate)— The world economy is lurching toward an unprecedented confluence of economic, financial, and debt crises, following the explosion of deficits, borrowing, and leverage in ...

Dow ends nearly 200 points lower as investors weigh ISM manufacturing and inflation data, await jobs report

U.S. stocks finished a choppy session mostly lower on Thursday after the ISM manufacturing index showed American factory activities contracted to a 30-month low in November. Stocks had opened mostly h...

Most deeply inverted Treasury curve in more than 4 decades has one upbeat takeaway for investors

One of the bond market’s most reliable indicators of impending U.S. recessions is pointed in a pretty pessimistic direction right now, but contains at least one optimistic message: The Federal Reserve...

In mid-November, mortgage rates saw their biggest decline since 1981. Here’s what 6 pros say will what happen next

The latest mortgage rates Getty Images/iStockphoto For most of 2022, the trend of mortgage rates was generally up and then up some more. But in mid-November something big happened: Thanks to better-th...

Stocks Have Already Bottomed. How We Know.

The ride upward won’t be easy, but there are mounting signals that the stock market has already hit its low point.  For starters, the S&P 500 is down 17% from its all-time high of 4796 hit in earl...

Fed Tightening Is Having More Impact Than You Might Think

We’ve learned a lot about the transmission of disease in the past few years. Ideas, good and bad, are spread similarly. Robert Shiller, the Yale University Nobel laureate, wrote in Irrational Exuberan...

Fed must keep raising rates until it is certain inflation has stopped climbing, Kashkari says

The Federal Reserve needs to keep raising interest rates until it is sure inflation has hit a ceiling, said Minneapolis Fed President Neel Kashkari on Thursday. The central bank can’t be overly persua...

It’s Been a Rough Year for Stocks and Bonds. What to Do in 2023.

With more than a month to go, 2022 is all but certain to go down as an annus horribilis for both stocks and bonds. The crucial question for investors: What does that portend for the year ahead? The re...

History says inflation could persist for a decade

If you are a retiree, or even near to retirement, you are probably more vulnerable to inflation than most. Your cost of living is probably rising faster than your income. You’re lucky if any pension o...

Opinion: Opinion: What Bullard got wrong about a 7% fed funds (and why he said it anyway)

An influential Federal Reserve official briefly spooked the stock SPX, -0.31% and bond TMUBMUSD10Y, 3.769% markets on Thursday by warning that the central bank may have to raise interest rates much fu...

Fed’s Waller says market has overreacted to consumer inflation data: ‘We’ve got a long, long way to go’

Federal Reserve Gov. Christopher Waller said Sunday that financial markets seem to have overreacted to the softer-than-expected October consumer price inflation data last week. “It was just one data p...

U.S. stocks could rally another 25% now that Fed no longer has ‘back against the wall’ in inflation fight

One of Wall Street’s most implacable bulls has laid out his argument for why he thinks U.S. stocks can continue to rally into the year’s end after Thursday’s game-changing October inflation data. Tom ...

‘We’ve seen this before,” warns BofA. Why inflation could take until 2024 to fall to 3% and weigh on stocks.

U.S. stocks roared higher Thursday after October’s consumer-price index showed inflation rising at a less aggressive annual pace than expected, spurring hopes that the Federal Reserve’s inflation flig...

Why Higher Interest Rates Won’t Solve the Inflation Problem

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...

Opinion: How Powell pivoted away from the Fed’s dovish message and tanked the markets

Fed Chair Jerome Powell is learning on the job. He didn’t repeat the mistake he made in his July press conference, when he said some things that markets interpreted as signs that the Fed was wavering ...