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I-bonds are all the rage — what’s the best way to use them?
With the release of March’s Consumer Price Index, we now know that a risk-free investment yielding 9.6% will be available as of May 2. I’m speaking, of course, about Series I savings bonds from the U....
Robinhood Losses Spell The End Of An Era For Young Investors Who’ve Never Traded Through A Downturn
Jamel Toppin for Forbes The meme generation meets a potential bear market for the first time No trading platform has so exemplified an era like Robinhood, the do-it-yourself app that enabled so many y...
How Stagflation Could Trigger Global Bitcoin Adoption
Stagflation can be defined as a prolonged period in which an economy experiences persistently high inflation, high unemployment rates, and stagnant aggregate demand. It is a period where central banks...
The Fed’s Interest Rate Hikes Could Be Even Worse Than Feared
Text size Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell. Tom Williams/Pool/Getty Images Don’t fight the Fed has long been a Wall Street motto. But the nation’s central bank thus far has been a reluctant figh...
The 10-Year Treasury Yield Is Nearing 3%. That’s a Bad Omen for the Stock Market.
Interest rates may finally be getting real. To investors with a sense of history, the near-zero and even negative interest rates of recent years might have seemed unreal, and indeed were unprecedented...
Central banks to put rates in pain zone to fight inflation
LONDON — Overcoming doggedly high inflation requires interest rates to be pushed into the “pain zone.” But whether any central bank has the nerve to do it is the question, according to inv...
Asian markets tumble amid worries about earnings, Fed rate hike
TOKYO — Asian shares declined Monday after U.S. stocks ended last week on a tumble as global markets’ expectations for higher interest rates continued to set the tone. Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 NIK...
BofA: Outflow from Stock Funds ‘Just Starting’
Stocks have struggled so far this year, with the S&P 500 losing 10%. Commentary from Bank of America strategists indicates more losses may be on the way. Global equity funds saw on outflow of $17....
Watch Fed Chairman Jerome Powell speak live at IMF debate
[The stream is slated to start at 1 p.m. ET. Please refresh the page if you do not see a player above at that time.] Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell speaks Thursday on a panel presented by the ...
Will The Fed Cause A Recession?
WASHINGTON, DC – NOVEMBER 30: Federal Reserve Board Chairman Jerome Powell testifies during a … [+] hearing before Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee on Capitol Hill Novem...
Why did the stock market fall? Dow finishes nearly 1,000 points lower in worst day since October 2020
U.S. stocks fell sharply on Friday to suffer their biggest one-day drop since 2020, as investors continued to weigh hawkish comments on interest rates a day earlier by Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome ...
A Key Bond Yield Nears 3%. It’s a Bad Omen for Stocks.
Interest rates may finally be getting real. To investors with a sense of history, the near-zero and even negative interest rates of recent years might have seemed unreal, and indeed were unprecedented...
Fed’s Mester casts doubt on the need for ‘shock’ interest rate hikes ahead
Cleveland Federal Reserve President Loretta Mester said Friday she’s in favor of raising interest rates quickly to bring down inflation, but not so quickly as to disrupt the economic recovery. T...
Fed chief Powell backs moving more quickly on interest-rate hikes
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell on Thursday joined the chorus of U.S. central bankers who want to move faster on raising interest rates. “It is appropriate in my view to be moving a little more...
Fed’s Powell Puts Half-Point Rate Hike on the Table for May
Text size Fed Chair Jerome Powell will appear on a panel Thursday with European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde. Graeme Jennings/Pool/AFP/Getty Images Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell c...
Powell says taming inflation ‘absolutely essential,’ and a 50-basis-point hike possible for May
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell affirmed the central bank’s determination to bring down inflation and said Thursday that aggressive rate hikes are possible as soon as next month. “I...
Fed’s Daly says the economy can handle rate hikes, but a mild recession is possible
Mary Daly, President of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, poses after giving a speech on the U.S. economic outlook, in Idaho Falls, Idaho, November 12 2018. Ann Saphir | Reuters San Francisco...
Forward Prices In Commodity And Bond Markets Consistent With Rapid Slowdown In CPI
Commodity and Interest Rate Markets Anticipate Taming of Inflation getty Annualized CPI at 8%. Crude oil at $105/barrel. 10-year bond yields at 2.7%. These price levels that continually scroll over co...
Fed’s Bostic expresses caution about the pace of interest rate hikes
Atlanta Federal Reserve President Raphael Bostic on Tuesday expressed concern about the impact that rate hikes could have on the U.S. economic recovery, saying the central bank shouldn’t move so...
Market will break out of slump due to peaking inflation: Evercore ISI
The market slump may be in its final innings. According to Evercore ISI’s Julian Emanuel, stocks should start grinding higher due to peaking inflation. He cites a positive trend going back to th...
Municipal Bonds Are Down So Much That They’re Buys Again
Text size Al Drago/Bloomberg A funny thing happened in the past week, as news emerged of inflation hitting a four-decade high. A few strategists started looking a bit more positively on bonds, or at l...
Beware Misleading Recession Forecasts—But Be Prepared
The risk of recession is increasing getty People are worrying about recession with good reason: inflation is up, interest rates are rising and the Ukraine war hurts the global economy. But the scary h...
Fed’s Waller sees likelihood of multiple half-point interest rate hikes ahead
Getting inflation under control will require raising interest rates at a faster pace than normal even though the pace of price increases probably has peaked, Federal Reserve Governor Christopher Walle...
Cramer’s Mad Money Recap 4/12: Devon Energy, Robinhood, Twilio
Hope is not an investing strategy, even when it’s all you have, Jim Cramer reminded his Mad Money viewers Tuesday, after the latest Consumer Price Index reading roiled the markets into another d...
Three value stocks that can provide safety as interest rates rise
Stocks have been on a rocky road this year, as investors have tried to anticipate every possible move by the Federal Reserve to combat inflation. Value strategies have held up better than growth strat...
The Safe Investment That Will Soon Yield Almost 10%
There’s no such thing as a free lunch in finance. Except maybe this: The interest rate on inflation-adjusted U.S. savings bonds will approach 10% beginning in May. U.S. Treasury Series I Bonds, or I B...
The Fed Wants to Raise Rates Quickly, but May Not Know Where to Stop
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell is shifting monetary tightening into a higher gear. His goal sounds straightforward—lift interest rates to “neutral,” a setting that neither spurs nor slows grow...