The dramatic drop in regional bank stocks is a key entry point for investors, according to analyst Christopher Marinac. Marinac, who serves as Director of Research at Janney Montgomery Scott, believes...
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Evercore warns SVB fallout will force new market low
Evercore ISI is comparing the bank stress to another critical time on Wall Street: The year of the savings and loan crisis and epic crash. “To think you would see financial stress of this kind d...
How ‘duration risk’ came back to bite SVB and led to rapid collapse
Following the fall of Silicon Valley Bank, a lot of terms are being thrown around on CNBC and elsewhere in discussions about what went wrong. One key term is “duration risk” along the yiel...
Something broke, but the Fed is still expected to go through with rate hikes
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell testifies during the Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee hearing titled The Semiannual Monetary Policy Report to the Congress, in Hart Building ...
Silicon Valley’s ‘greed and avarice’ to blame, trader says
Andrey Rudakov | Bloomberg | Getty Images The fallout from the shuttering of Silicon Valley Bank — the second-largest bank collapse in U.S. history — continued Monday, dragging down international bank...
Bill Ackman says U.S. did right thing in protecting SVB depositors
A sign hangs at Silicon Valley Banks headquarters in Santa Clara, California on March 10, 2023. Noah Berger | AFP | Getty Images Billionaire investor Bill Ackman said the U.S. government’s actio...
Goldman Sachs no longer expects the Fed to hike rates in March
Goldman Sachs logo displayed on a smartphone. Omar Marques | SOPA Images | LightRocket via Getty Images Goldman Sachs no longer sees a case for the Federal Reserve to deliver a rate hike at its meetin...
Where Were the Regulators as SVB Crashed?
Silicon Valley Bank’s failure boils down to a simple misstep: It grew too fast using borrowed short-term money from depositors who could ask to be repaid at any time, and invested it in long-term asse...
Two bond ETF strategies that may help investors profit from rate hikes
Interest rate jitters are meaningfully pushing investors to the shorter end of the yield curve, according to Joanna Gallegos, co-founder of fixed-income ETF issuer BondBloxx. Gallegos, former head of ...
Silicon Valley Bank’s Failure May Lead to Smaller Fed Rate Hike
The second-largest bank failure in U.S. history might help the Federal Reserve do its job of tightening credit and slowing the economy. To be sure, the sudden collapse of the Silicon Valley Bank unit ...
What To Know About Silicon Valley Bank’s Collapse—The Biggest Bank Failure Since 2008
Topline Silicon Valley Bank collapsed in spectacular fashion Friday just days after it announced big losses, failing at attempts to raise funds or seek out a buyer, and creating the biggest bank failu...
Powell changed everything this week on market’s view of interest rates
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell testifies before a House Financial Services hearing on “The Federal Reserve’s Semi-Annual Monetary Policy Report” on Capitol Hill in Washington...
Stock market could ‘take it hard’ as expectations grow for a 6% fed funds rate
U.S. stock investors are clearly not too happy with what Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell has said in the past two days. And there’s reason to think they’ll get even more dissatisfied in the wee...
Fed may stutter-step at end of interest rate hiking cycle for first time since 1990
U.S. financial markets are taking a more cautious approach as they forecast future Federal Reserve interest-rate decisions after Chair Jerome Powell said policymakers will likely need to raise interes...
Real Estate Has Lost Its Prime Engine
There’s no free lunch. Everything costs something, and most things measure their cost in money. So how does money measure its cost? In interest rates. And as everyone knows, the cost of money is going...
Watch Fed Chair Jerom Powell speak live in second day of Capitol Hill testimony
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Fed says interest rates poised to go ‘higher than previously anticipated.’ Here’s a simple way to profit from that
Fed Chair Jerome Powell testified before the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee on Tuesday. mandel ngan/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images As part of the continued effort to reduce inf...
Powell’s comments slammed markets. Here’s what one bank sees for stocks, bonds.
The market really took Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell’s words at face value on Tuesday. Short-term yields rose, and the stock market slumped, with this comment: recent data suggest “the ultimate ...
BlackRock says the Federal Reserve could hike interest rates to a peak of 6%
Rick Rieder, managing director and chief investment officer of fundamental fixed income for BlackRock Inc., speaks during the Institute of International Finance Annual Membership Meeting in Washington...
In a ‘Real World’ of Credit, Money Is Never Remotely ‘Free’
A recent opinion piece referenced a time in the not-too-distant past when money was “virtually free.” This was before Fed Chairman Powell supposedly brought “real world” to the cost of credit. Readers...
Bond-market recession gauge plunges to triple digits below zero on way to fresh four-decade milestone
One of the bond market’s most reliable gauges of impending U.S. recessions plunged further below zero into triple-digit negative territory on Tuesday after Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell point...
Powell’s Hawkish Testimony Raises Prospect Of Larger March Hike
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell testifies during a Senate Banking Committee hearing on … [+] Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, March 7, 2023. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) Copyright 2023 Th...
Fed Chair Powell says interest rates are ‘likely to be higher’ than previously anticipated
Federal Reserve Board Chairman Jerome Powell speaks during a news conference after a Federal Open Market Committee meeting on February 01, 2023 in Washington, DC. Kevin Dietsch | Getty Images Federal...
Watch Fed Chair Jerome Powell speak live on Capitol Hill about interest rates and the economy
[The stream is slated to start at 10 a.m. ET. Please refresh the page if you do not see a player above at that time.] Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell will address the Senate Banking, Housing an...
Opinion: Powell will have to push rates even higher for the Fed to get inflation to 2%
Inflation is proving tougher to curb than Federal Reserve Chairman Powell anticipated, and despite indicators that a recession could be coming, consumers and businesses apparently haven’t gotten the m...
Apple, Berkshire, Alphabet, and Microsoft Reap Benefit of Higher Rates
Rich corporations are getting richer thanks to higher interest rates. Apple (ticker: AAPL), Alphabet (GOOG), Berkshire Hathaway (BRK/A), and Microsoft (MSFT) have the largest cash positions among Amer...
Debunking The Myths – Are Rising Interest Rates Bad For Stocks?
Jerome H. Powell and his colleagues at the Federal Reserve have been steadily raising the target for … [+] the Fed Funds rate. Getty Images The latest week saw stocks sell off as the yield on th...
Here’s The Schedule For The Fed’s Upcoming Meetings And What To Expect
Jerome Powell, chairman of the US Federal Reserve, speaks during a news conference following a … [+] Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting in Washington, DC, US, on Wednesday, Feb. 1, 202...
A year later, the Fed still has a long way to go in the fight against inflation
A grocery cart sits in an aisle at a grocery store in Washington, DC, on February 15, 2023. Stefani Reynolds | AFP | Getty Images It was a year ago this month that the Federal Reserve launched its fir...
Stocks Post Subpar February Amid Fears Of Higher Interest Rates And Weak Earnings
Topline Major stock indexes fell this month as Wall Street digested the latest round of corporate earnings and reacted to growing expectations the Federal Reserve may hike interest rates higher than a...
10 banks that may face trouble in the wake of the SVB Financial Group debacle
As interest rates have risen, many banks have become more profitable because the spreads between what they earn on loans and investments and what they pay for funding has widened. But there are always...