The Federal Reserve’s big announcement on interest rates is Wednesday. The stock market will likely make a large move—in one direction or the other. The Fed is widely expected to lift its target for t...
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Here’s exactly where ‘whiplash-inducing’ mortgage rates are headed this year, according to 6 economists and real estate pros
Where are mortgage rates headed? Getty Images Rates are trending upwards, pros say. Indeed, many pros say estimate that the Federal Reserve will raise interest rates in November and December. And for ...
Mortgage Giant Rocket Plunges Back to Earth, Hit by Rising Rates
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The Fed’s Repo And Reserve Payouts Have Populists In A Bind
WASHINGTON, DC – SEPTEMBER 28: Chairman Sherrod Brown (D-OH) questions Treasury Secretary Janet … [+] Yellen and Federal Reserve Chairman Powell during a Senate Banking, Housing and Urban ...
Should You Retire Early to Get a Larger Lump Sum on Your Pension?
The math on when and how to retire is shifting for millions of workers with pension plans. Blame the steep rise in interest rates. When workers retire with a pension, many are given a choice between r...
Rising Markets Seem to See the Fed Easing. It’s Too Early for That.
What everybody knows isn’t worth knowing, according to market wisdom. The Federal Reserve will raise its key federal-funds target rate by 75 basis points this coming week, as we all know, from the cur...
Don’t Beat Yourself Up if You Missed the 9.62% I Bond Yield
People are rushing into I bonds so fast that the only place you can buy them, the government’s TreasuryDirect web site, crashed. The reason why investors are flocking to the site is that Oct. 28 is th...
Another jumbo Fed rate hike is expected next week — and then life gets difficult for Powell
First the easy part. Economists widely expect Federal Reserve monetary-policy makers to approve a fourth straight jumbo interest-rate rise at its meeting next week. A hike of three-quarters of a perce...
Why A Strong Dollar Is Not As Good As You Think
A strong dollar sounds great. Here is where it is not so great for U.S. companies and investors. getty To most people, a strong currency means a strong country. Weak countries have weak currencies. St...
Powell again is facing political pressure as worries mount over the economy
Jerome Powell, chairman of the US Federal Reserve, speaks during a Fed Listens event in Washington, D.C., US, on Friday, Sept. 23, 2022. Al Drago | Bloomberg | Getty Images Federal Reserve Chairman Je...
Markets Expect The Fed To Pause In 2023, Will It?
Lael Brainard, vice chair of the US Federal Reserve, from left, Jerome Powell, chairman of the US … [+] Federal Reserve, and Michael Barr, vice chair for supervision of the Board of Governors of...
Will High Government Debt Create Problems As Rates Rise?
Will elevated debt to GDP create problems for the U.S. government as interest rates rise? … [+] Photographer: Sarah Silbiger/Bloomberg © 2022 Bloomberg Finance LP In 2022 interest rates have sho...
What Happens When The Interest Rate Tsunami Hits Consumers?
Young man watching movie on laptop at home getty The forces bearing down on the US economy are so varied and mostly uncontrollable that it seems impossible for consumer-facing businesses to accurately...
‘Mounting fear is that something else will break along the way’: Stock-market investors look ahead to PCE inflation data amid Fed overtightening worries
Some investors are on edge that the Federal Reserve may be overtightening monetary policy in its bid to tame hot inflation, as markets look ahead to a reading this coming week from the Fed’s preferred...
Dow jumps almost 750 points as stocks end higher, bond yields fall after reports Fed may shift to smaller rate hikes after November
U.S. stocks closed sharply higher Friday as investors weighed a story from the Wall Street Journal and comments from Federal Reserve officials suggesting that the central bank might shift to smaller i...
Why the housing market should brace for double-digit mortgage rates in 2023
Even if Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell and his cohorts stopped hiking policy rates soon, the 30-year fixed mortgage rate still would climb to 10%, according to Christopher Whalen, chairman of ...
Fed’s Harker sees ‘lack of progress’ on inflation, expects aggressive rate hikes ahead
Philadelphia Federal Reserve President Patrick Harker on Thursday said higher interest rates have done little to keep inflation in check, so more increases will be needed. “We are going to keep ...
An often-overlooked economic measure is signaling serious trouble ahead
Employees work at the BMW manufacturing plant in Greer, South Carolina, October 19, 2022. Bob Strong | Reuters The economy sent a low-key signal Thursday that a recession is looming — and that the Fed...
Why stock market investors should wait for the 10-year Treasury to ‘blink’
When a key part of the U.S. bond market starts shrugging off new Federal Reserve interest rate hikes or tough talk on inflation, it’s probably time to buy stocks, according to James Paulsen, the Leuth...
Get Ready For Another Lumber Rally As Homebuilders Anticipate 2023 Rebound
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS – APRIL 05: Stacks of lumber are offered for sale at a home center on April 05, … [+] 2021 in Chicago, Illinois. Lumber prices have more than tripled since last April due...
Recession? No – Interest Rates Still Too Low
The poky Fed interest rate elevator has far to go getty To cause a recession, short-term interest rates need to be much higher. Despite the Federal Reserve’s rate-raising, the inflation-friendly...
Stock market’s wild gyrations put earnings in focus as inflation crushes Fed ‘pivot’ hopes
Unrelenting inflation has dashed hopes for a quick pivot away from aggressive interest rate hikes by the Federal Reserve, which in turn is undermining the U.S. corporate earnings outlook for 2023 and ...
The oil trade may have more juice despite a losing week
Even though WTI crude just saw its worst week in more than two months, the oil trade may have more juice left in the tank. Mirae Asset Securities’ Chris Hempstead told CNBC’s “ETF Ed...
Apple, Goldman Sachs introduce interest-bearing savings accounts
Apple will soon allow iPhone users to put credit card rewards from Apple Card and additional funds from separate bank accounts into an interest-bearing savings account. In a press release Thursday, Ap...
Fed’s benchmark interest rate may peak above 5% after Sept inflation data, some economists think
When the Federal Reserve started to raise its benchmark policy interest rate by super-sized 0.75 percentage points in June this year, a few Fed officials and private sector economists talked about how...
This is how high interest rates might rise, and what could scare the Federal Reserve into a policy pivot
The stock market’s reaction to the latest inflation report Thursday underlined just how confused and fearful investors are. The S&P 500 SPX, +2.60% plunged as much as 3% shortly after the open as ...
No Relief Today, Nor Any In Sight
President Joe Biden gestures. (Photo by Andrew Caballero-Reynolds / AFP) (Photo by ANDREW … [+] CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images) AFP via Getty Images For a couple of months this past sum...
Don’t Expect the Stock Market to Rally, Even if GOP Wins Control of Congress
The outcome of the midterm elections on Nov. 8 could disappoint investors, regardless of which party they support. According to Wall Street lore, stocks usually perform strongly following the midterms...