After a huge year for growth, the U.S. economy is about to slam into a wall

Free food is handed out by the Brooklyn community organization PASWO during a weekly food distribution on December 08, 2021 in New York City. Spencer Platt | Getty Images Spurred by a massive inventor...

Opinion: The Fed is determined to stop wages from rising

AUSTIN, Texas (Project Syndicate)—Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell has now committed to putting monetary policy on a course of rising interest rates, which could boost the short-term rate (on feder...

Small Data Sample Shows Big Potential

Piggy bank with golden coins and gold ingots, 3D rendering getty In my most recent article “A return to regular order” (A Return To Regular Order? (forbes.com), I outlined how, given our current macro...

Fed’s Barkin says businesses would welcome higher interest rates

The U.S. economy is ready for interest rate increases to control rampant inflation, Richmond Federal Reserve President Thomas Barkin said Monday. With the Fed poised to start hiking rates in March and...

5 things to know before the stock market opens Monday, Jan. 31

Here are the most important news, trends and analysis that investors need to start their trading day: 1. Wall Street looks lower on final day of dismal January trading Traders work on the floor of the...

History Says Federal Reserve-Induced Stock Rout Won’t Last

TOPSHOT – Peter Tuchman, floor trader, reacts as he works on the floor during the opening bell on … [+] the New York Stock Exchange on March 9, 2020 in New York. – Trading on Wall St...

The Transformation of Spanish University Is Being Financed Outside of Spain

L’Auberge Espagnole is a Cedric Klapisch movie from 2002 that is a joy to re-watch every few years. Starring Romain Duris and Audrey Tautou most notably, the excellent film (eventually made into a tri...

Market Volatility Is Creating Opportunities for Stocks. What to Buy Now

The 2022 market was always going to be a tug of war between earnings and interest rates. Corporate profit growth fueled by the reopening has come up against contracting valuations and expectations of ...

Stocks Are on a Wild Ride. 20 Bargains to Buy Now, According to Barron’s Roundtable Experts.

Fed be nimble, Fed be quick. The quicker, the better, in fact. Hike interest rates, shrink your balance sheet, and let’s be done with it all before the stock market sinks even further. The market’s re...

Opinion: The party’s over: The Fed and Congress have pulled their support from workers and investors

Even as the government reports the fastest economic growth in nearly 40 years, the historic gains in income and wealth that inflated the economy in 2020 and 2021 are fading fast. The air is coming out...

The Fed uses one inflation gauge as its North Star. Here’s why

Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell speaks during his re-nomination hearing before the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee on Jan. 11, 2022 in Washington. Brendan Smialowski-Pool/Ge...

Key Fed inflation gauge rises 4.9% from a year ago, fastest gain since 1983

A gauge the Federal Reserve prefers to measure inflation rose 4.9% from a year ago, the biggest gain going back to September 1983, the Commerce Department reported Friday. The core personal consumptio...

Fed rate hikes are coming — how to tackle your savings, mortgage, car payments and credit-card debt in advance

Wall Street investors and Washington D.C. lawmakers are closely listening to what Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell says Wednesday about the central bank’s next steps in its fight against decades...

Why the stock market hates the idea of rising interest rates

Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange at the opening bell Jan. 25, 2022. TIMOTHY A. CLARY | AFP | Getty Images The specter of rising interest rates is spooking the stock market. The...

Fed Tees Up March Hike, But What’s Next?

WASHINGTON, DC – JULY 17: Federal Reserve Board Chairman Jerome Powell testifies during a hearing … [+] before the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee July 17, 2018 on Capi...

Federal Reserve points to interest rate hike coming in March

Facing both turbulent financial markets and raging inflation, the Federal Reserve on Wednesday indicated it could soon raise interest rates for the first time in more than three years. In a move that ...

Here’s What to Watch as the Fed Gets Set to Raise Rates and Shrink Balance Sheet

Anxiety is high as the Federal Reserve wraps its first meeting of the year. Will the central bank abruptly end its emergency bond-buying program ahead of schedule? Are more rate increases in store, an...

Fed will raise its policy interest rate above the inflation rate ‘sooner rather than later,’ says ex-governor Quarles who resigned last month

Former Federal Reserve Governor Randal Quarles said Tuesday that he thinks the Fed will move swiftly to raise its policy interest rate above the inflation rate because that is the only way to defeat i...

Real estate billionaire Sam Zell says office space will recover ‘much faster’ than retail

Demand for office space is likely to rebound from depressed Covid pandemic levels long before retail properties, property billionaire Sam Zell told CNBC on Tuesday. “Everything between the top m...

Opinion: Thankfully, the Fed has decided to stop digging, but it has a lot of work to do before it gets us out of hole we’re in

NEW HAVEN, Conn. (Project Syndicate)—The Federal Reserve has turned on a dime, an uncharacteristic about-face for an institution long noted for slow and deliberate shifts in monetary policy. While the...

‘Market Jitters’ Have S&P 500 Flirting With Correction Territory, Dow Falls 300 Points

Topline Stocks plunged on Tuesday amid surging market volatility—a day after the three major indexes mounted an historic comeback from steep losses—as investors remain nervous about surging rates and ...

The Federal Reserve is likely to signal a March rate hike

U.S. Federal Reserve Board Chairman Jerome Powell speaks during his re-nominations hearing of the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee on Capitol Hill, in Washington, U.S., January 11, ...

As stock market plunges, a star money manager says the Fed is making a mistake by focusing on rates. Here’s what Scott Minerd says it should do instead.

The Federal Reserve is under the gun as the market plunges ahead of its first rate-setting meeting of 2022, and at least one star money manager says that the central bank could be making a policy erro...

Growth slowdown to spark 10% stock plunge, Morgan Stanley warns

Investors may be playing with fire. According to Morgan Stanley’s Mike Wilson, the S&P 500 is vulnerable to a 10% plunge despite Monday’s late buying binge. He warns investors are dang...

The stock market slide is unlikely to budge the Fed from tightening

The Marriner S. Eccles Federal Reserve building in Washington, D.C., on Friday, Sept. 17, 2021. Stefani Reynolds | Bloomberg | Getty Images The current slide in the stock market may be spooking some i...

5 things to know before the stock market opens Monday, Jan. 24

Here are the most important news, trends and analysis that investors need to start their trading day: 1. Wall Street to open lower after Nasdaq’s worst week since March 2020 Traders on the floor...

Inflation surge could push the Fed into more than four rate hikes this year, Goldman Sachs says

U.S. Federal Reserve Board Chairman Jerome Powell attends his re-nominations hearing of the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee on Capitol Hill, in Washington, U.S., January 11, 2022. ...

The Market’s Priced in a Rate Rise. Now the Fed Has Lots of Other Issues to Decide.

Watch what they say, not what they do, at the Federal Open Market Committee meeting this coming week. The obverse of the famous advice from Richard Nixon’s attorney general, John Mitchell, is what eco...

Netflix Stock Crashes As Nasdaq Has Worst Week Since October 2020

Topline The stock market fell on Friday as the sell-off in tech stocks intensified after Netflix posted lackluster earnings—with the Nasdaq Composite falling deeper into correction territory and posti...

The 60/40 portfolio ‘is in danger’ as Federal Reserve gears up for a rate-hike cycle in coming months

The traditional portfolio mix of 60% stocks and 40% bonds, historically seen as the safest allocation for investors of moderate-risk tolerance, “is in danger” as the Federal Reserve gears up for its f...

China’s XI Doesn’t Want the Fed to Raise Rates Either

China’s President Xi Jinping urged the world’s major economies not to rapidly raise interest rates at the virtual Davos summit, warning such action could threaten the global recovery. The yield on the...

Stock Market Sell-Off Continues As Rates Surge, Goldman Sachs Falls 8%

Topline The stock market plunged on Tuesday after Goldman Sachs reported disappointing quarterly earnings—continuing a trend of lackluster bank results, while surging government bond yields hit two-ye...