Will home prices fall? Getty Images Gone are the uber-low mortgage rates of 2021. Indeed, average 30-year-fixed mortgage rates have risen from roughly 3.5% to about 5.6% this year, and pros say they e...
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Powell says he can’t guarantee a ‘soft landing’ as the Fed looks to control inflation
US Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell speaks during a news conference in Washington, DC, on May 4, 2022. Jim Watson | AFP | Getty Images Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell warned Thursday that...
These Are The Car Brands Most Likely To Sell For Over, And Under, MSRP
New-vehicle transaction prices are at all time highs, with the majority selling for more than their … [+] MSRPs. getty No question this is a challenging time in which to go car shopping. Factory...
Savers Regain Respect And Income
Bankers are welcoming savers and raising interest rates on deposits getty Applaud the Federal Reserve and Wall Street. Their new actions are restoring a forgotten powerhouse of capitalism: Savers. The...
Fed’s Waller promises to tackle inflation, says mistakes of the ’70s won’t be repeated
Christopher Waller, U.S. President Donald Trump’s nominee for governor of the Federal Reserve, speaks during a Senate Banking Committee confirmation hearing in Washington, D.C., U.S, on Thursday...
Fed’s Kashkari confident inflation can weaken, but not without pain
Neel Kashkari Anjali Sundaram | CNBC Minneapolis Federal Reserve President Neel Kashkari said Monday he’s confident inflation will come back to normal though it’s taking longer than he exp...
Why the UK economy is one of the most vulnerable right now
George Clerk | E+ | Getty Images There’s an economic idiosyncrasy in the U.K. that makes it “one of the most vulnerable countries in the world right now,” according to an investment ...
How do higher mortgage rates help shrink inflation? Here’s an explainer.
The Federal Reserve yanked a short-term interest rate higher this week, making it more expensive to borrow money to buy a home or fix it up. The central bank raised the federal funds rate last week by...
Fed issued biggest rate hike in 22 years. 4 things to do with your money now
Amid rising interest rate, here’s how to handle savings, investments and debt. Getty Images/iStockphoto For the first time in 22 years, the Federal Reserve raised interest rates by more than one-quart...
Your cash savings may get a higher return but only at certain banks
Guido Mieth | DigitalVision | Getty Images Banks are starting to pay a higher return on your cash — good news for savers who’ve seen their stockpiles languishing from a gruesome combination of l...
Rates Are Rising and Stocks Are Taking a Beating. It Won’t End Soon.
Text size The market reacted violently to the Federal Open Market Committee, which hiked the federal-funds rate target by half a percentage point for only the second time this century. Spencer Platt/G...
The Fed raised interest rates – what to do now with your retirement portfolio
Inflation is rising, the stock market is volatile and now the Federal Reserve has raised interest rates – but investors, as always, should steer clear of any major changes, financial advisers said. T...
Opinion: 8 ways to protect your money if you think stocks are headed even lower
I know what you’re thinking: Why, oh why, didn’t we all just “sell in May and go away” like that stupid Wall Street saying recommended? Plenty of other articles will hash out the hows and whys behind ...
Why the market is taking Powell’s ‘soft-ish’ economic language so hard
Roger Ferguson Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty Images Anyone who read a Fed chair coining the term “soft-ish” for an economic landing, as Jerome Powell did on Wednesday, as a bullish sig...
Rising interest rates mean higher borrowing costs to buy a car
Newsday Llc | Newsday | Getty Images On top of elevated prices for new and used cars, financing the purchase of one is about to get more expensive. With the Federal Reserve boosting a key interest rat...
Consumers at breaking point as Fed inflation battle heats up: Boockvar
The economy may be hitting a crucial turning point. Investor Peter Boockvar warns the Federal Reserve will not be able to meaningfully contain surging inflation, and there’s not much more consum...
Fed lifts interest rates and will wind down $9 trillion bond stockpile in double-pronged attack on high U.S. inflation
“Inflation is much too high and we understand the hardship it is causing,” said Fed Chairman Jerome Powell in what he called a direct message to the American public. “We are moving expeditiously to br...
What the Fed’s Interest-Rate Increase Means for Your Mortgage, Loans, Savings
The Federal Reserve raised its short-term benchmark rate by a half-percentage point on Wednesday, the sharpest increase since 2000, to a range between 0.75% and 1%. Though widely expected, the move wi...
Fed raises rates by half a percentage point — the biggest hike in two decades — to fight inflation
WASHINGTON — The Federal Reserve on Wednesday raised its benchmark interest rate by half a percentage point, the most aggressive step yet in its fight against a 40-year high in inflation. “Infla...
How high can the Fed hike interest rates before a recession hits? This chart suggests a low threshold.
The days when the Federal Reserve could raise its benchmark interest rate significantly above 5% without sparking a recession may be a thing of the past, according to Wells Fargo Investment Institute....
Despite interest rate hikes, Tony Dwyer predicts sharp market bounce
While Wall Street braces for a half point interest rate hike on Wednesday, Canaccord Genuity’s Tony Dwyer sees the ingredients for a sharp market bounce. However, it’s unrelated to a funda...
Powell wants to get rates closer to neutral. But what’s neutral? Think between 5% and 6%, former top Fed staffer says
With U.S. inflation surging higher than anyone expected, Fed Chairman Jerome Powell, has laid out a policy path where the Fed is going to move quickly to get its benchmark interest rate up to “to a mo...
50% of market is in a bubble, Dan Suzuki warns as Fed gets ready to meet
The market may be in the early innings of a dramatic decline. Despite Monday’s tech comeback, money manager Dan Suzuki of Richard Bernstein Advisors warns the group is in a “bubble.”...
Fears of a Fed mistake grow as this week’s anticipated interest rate hike looms
Jerome Powell, Chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve, attends the National Association of Business Economicseconomic policy conference in Washington, D.C, United States on March 21, 2022. Yasin Ozturk ...
Stagflation risk rises as the Federal Reserve tightens monetary policy
The Federal Reserve is hiking interest rates in an effort to defuse an explosive year of price inflation. But global forces could neutralize the effects of that tightening of monetary policy, and keep...
Strong Dollar Aids U.S. Inflation Fight, Adds to Price Pressures Abroad
Text size Chinese 100 yuan bank notes. Paul Yeung/Bloomberg While your attention probably was focused on that big takeover of a certain social-media site, the gyrations in the global currency markets ...
These 10 stocks in the S&P 500 soared at least 8% after the Fed made its big move — but only 3 have gains for 2022
Wednesday turned into a big day for stocks — the S&P 500 index had its largest one-day percentage gain in nearly two years — after the Federal Reserve raised the federal funds rate by half a perce...