Topline Major stock indexes fell in February as Wall Street digested the latest round of corporate earnings and reacted to growing expectations the Federal Reserve may hike interest rates higher than ...
Tag: Interest Rates
How investors can learn to live with inflation: BlackRock
Growth stocks may have led the early 2023 rally, but stubbornly high inflation means that won’t last. That’s the main message from the BlackRock Investment Institute on Monday, as U.S. stocks attempte...
What’s next for stocks as investors realize Fed’s inflation fight won’t end soon
The stock market is ending February on a decidedly wobbly note, raising doubts about the durability of an early 2023 rally. Blame stronger-than-expected economic data and hotter-than-expected inflatio...
What To Expect From The Fed’s March Meeting
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...
Debunking The Myths – Did Stocks Really Go Nowhere From 1966
One should always look beyond the headlines. Getty Images Our investment newsletter, The Prudent Speculator, recently published a report showing that stocks historically have been indifferent to risin...
Inflation Ran Hot in January. The Hidden Reasons Rate Hikes Aren’t Working—Yet
Inflation data published Friday show that consumer price growth reaccelerated in January, marking the latest sign that the U.S. economy is defying the Federal Reserve’s attempts to cool demand. The da...
Fed’s Preferred Inflation Measure Supports Further Rate Hikes
File – Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell speaks during a news conference, Wednesday, Feb. 1, … [+] 2023, at the Federal Reserve Board in Washington. On Wednesday, the Federal Reserve ...
Fed’s Mester says she has hope that inflation can be brought down without a recession
Cleveland Federal Reserve President and CEO Loretta Mester gives her keynote address at the 2014 Financial Stability Conference in Washington December 5, 2014. Gary Cameron | Reuters Cleveland Federal...
The bond market’s worst-case scenario isn’t a Fed rate of 6%. It’s this.
A doomsday scenario for bonds in 2023 wouldn’t be the fed-funds rate reaching 6% by July. A bigger worry would be if U.S. inflation that’s been slow to retreat starts heading higher annually, said Jas...
6-month T-bill rate rises to nearly 16-year high after release of Fed minutes
The yield on the 6-month T-bill rose to an almost 16-year high on Wednesday after minutes from the Federal Reserve’s last meeting indicated that all policy makers wanted to keep hiking interest rates....
Fed Wants ‘Substantially’ Lower Inflation Before Easing Interest Rates—And Some Officials Backed More Aggressive Hikes
Topline With inflation continuing to run hotter than expected, the Federal Reserve is showing no signs of backing down on its aggressive monetary policy, according to notes from the Fed’s policy...
Minutes show Fed members resolved to keep fighting inflation
Federal Reserve officials at their most recent meeting indicated that there are signs inflation is coming down, but not enough to counter the need for more interest rate increases, meeting minutes rel...
Higher Interest Rates Might Drive Inflation, And We Need To Decide Very Quickly If That Is True
A surprising number of economists have recently said that they believe high rates drive inflation. This is scary for two reasons. The first reason is that the people in charge may be wrong about one o...
Fed’s James Bullard pushes for faster rate hikes, sees ‘good shot’ at beating inflation
St. Louis Federal Reserve President James Bullard expressed confidence that the central bank can beat inflation and advocated Wednesday for stepping up the pace in the battle. Bullard told CNBC that a...
Dow falls over 400 points, dragged down by earnings, rising bond yields
U.S. stocks ended sharply lower on Tuesday, with major indexes suffering the worst daily percentage declines in over two months, as downbeat guidance from major retailers, rising Treasury yields and e...
How High Could U.S. Interest Rates Rise In 2023?
Jerome Powell, chairman of the US Federal Reserve, during an interview for an episode of “The David … [+] Rubenstein Show: Peer-to-Peer Conversations” at the Economic Club of Washing...
Popular ETF strategy shift may benefit investors
With Wall Street jitters increasing over the number of interest rate hikes ahead, VettaFi’s Todd Rosenbluth sees signs of a comeback in managed fixed-income exchange-traded funds. “It̵...
A Sideways Stock Market and the Case for Selling in March
Investors have heard the dictum “sell in May and go away.” This year they might want to consider selling in March. The May adage follows from market seasonality. Historically, investors have realized ...
Strong Economic Data Weaken the Case for Continued Stock Rally
The dash for trash has hit a speed bump. Stocks faltered again this past week as the early-year rally, led by rebounds in 2022’s speculative-grade losers, ran into resistance from higher expected inte...
‘The risk is that we’re going to hit the brakes very, very hard,’ Larry Summers says
“‘The risk is that we’re going to hit the brakes very, very hard.’ ” — Larry Summers Almost a full year of monetary-policy tightening by the Federal Reserve appears to be having little impact on price...
Markets fall on hot economy, chance of 0.5% rate hikes
James Bullard, president of Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, at the Jackson Hole economic symposium, in Moran, Wyoming, U.S., on Thursday, Aug. 22, 2019. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images...
Producer price index January 2023:
Inflation rebounded in January at the wholesale level, as producer prices rose more than expected to start the year, the Labor Department reported Thursday. The producer price index, a measure of what...
U.S. stocks don’t seem bothered by inflation
People walk along 5th Avenue in Manhattan, one of the nation’s premier shopping streets on February 15, 2023 in New York City. Spencer Platt | Getty Images News | Getty Images This report is fro...
U.S. stocks don’t seem concerned about inflation
People walk along 5th Avenue in Manhattan, one of the nation’s premier shopping streets on February 15, 2023 in New York City. Spencer Platt | Getty Images This report is from today’s CNBC...
The Best And Worst Banks Of 2023
Community banks like CVB Financial thrive, while trillion-dollar giants like Wells Fargo slide. Higher interest rates provided a healthy boost to banks’ balance sheets in 2022, but it wasn’t always an...
Consumer price index January 2023:
Inflation turned higher to start 2023, as rising gas and fuel prices took their toll on consumers, the Labor Department reported Tuesday. The consumer price index, which measures a broad basket of com...
Why January’s CPI report could deal a massive blow to the stock market
The stock market’s start-of-year rally is poised to fizzle if a highly-anticipated U.S. inflation report on Tuesday dashes hopes for a quicker retreat in the cost of living in America, warned market a...
The hunt for stocks with rising dividends: These fund managers have a strategy to keep your payouts growing
The broad stock-market rally so far in 2023 might make it easy to forget what a rough ride investors faced last year. It was a time when some active strategies focused on dividends, good cash-flow tre...
Inflation report due Tuesday has the potential to deliver some bad news
Prices are displayed in a grocery store on February 01, 2023 in New York City. Leonardo Munoz | Corbis News | Getty Images Just as Federal Reserve officials have grown optimistic that inflation is coo...
Generous Bond Yields Prove There Is an Alternative to Stocks
Return with us to ancient times, when dinosaurs ruled, at least in technology terms. It was early 2007, when Blackberries were in everybody’s mitts and the first iPhone hadn’t yet gone on sale, let al...