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Fed approves third large interest rate hike and signals more before year-end
The Federal Reserve on Wednesday stepped up its aggressive fight against high inflation by agreeing to the third straight super-sized increase in interest rates and signaling more big hikes before the...
Jeffrey Gundlach says bonds are ‘wickedly cheap’ compared to stocks — and offers one way to get a 9% return without much risk
You can forgive Jeffrey Gundlach, a long-suffering Buffalo Bills fan, if he has the NFL on his mind now that the team he supports looks like the Super Bowl favorite. The chief executive of DoubleLine ...
‘She never explained anything’: I’m a senior citizen and I lost $100,000 in the stock market this year. Can I sue my financial adviser?
I am a senior citizen and have suffered major losses to the tune of $100,000 in the recent stock market turmoil. Can I sue my financial adviser? I understand the dynamics of the market as far as its u...
4 things to watch when the Fed delivers its rate-hike decision
The Federal Reserve is raising rates on Wednesday. That much is certain. Beyond that, there are weighty questions about whether the central bank’s efforts to bring down inflation can succeed without c...
‘Disinflationary wave is building’ even as investors anticipate aggressive Fed rate increase, says this economist
Signs of disinflation have emerged even as investors fear Federal Reserve Chair Powell and his colleagues will keep battling inflation through aggressive rate hikes that have hurt both stocks and bond...
Amazon and Other Growth Stocks Have Been Hammered. Get Ready to Buy.
Text size Amazon shares are down 27% for the year. Mark Makela/Getty Images Growth stocks have been crushed this year, but several indicators point to a recovery soon—and investors should get ready to...
Why Alibaba Stock Is an Exception to Goldman’s US Market Preference
Text size Alibaba and other Chinese tech stocks have been battered since the beginning of last year. Qilai Shen/Bloomberg Chinese tech stocks have taken a beating since many hit all-time highs in earl...
Fearing a hawkish Fed? Here’s what’s likely limiting more downside in the stock market, according to JPMorgan’s Marko Kolanovic.
The stock market has been under pressure since the inflation report for August came in surprisingly strong last week, but JPMorgan Chase & Co.’s chief market strategist, Marko Kolanovic, doesn’t s...
Zillow sees peak rent growth as over, but that isn’t what the Fed’s tracking
A look at Zillow Group’s closely followed rent index shows that last year’s roughly 17% yearly surge in rental prices was probably the peak, with the rate of increases dramatically receding in the pas...
‘More pain to come’ for stocks as S&P 500 likely to bottom around 3,300, Interactive Brokers’ founder says
““I think there is more pain to come. I expect the market to bottom out around 3,300. As interest rates indicate today, the Fed still has quite a bit of work to do,”” — Thomas Peterffy, chairman and f...
How to Survive the Next Market Crash
Jerome Powell and the Federal Reserve might be in the process of driving the stock market over a cliff by tightening into a recession. That is one potential scenario envisioned by fund manager Mark Sp...
Why Alibaba, Other China Tech Stocks Are an Exception to Goldman Sachs’ Outlook
Text size Alibaba and other Chinese tech stocks have been battered since the beginning of last year. Qilai Shen/Bloomberg Chinese tech stocks have taken a beating since many hit all-time highs in earl...
Goldman Sachs: Why European Natural Gas Could Fall by 50%
Illustration by Elias Stein Text size Here’s a challenge to the conventional wisdom, courtesy of Goldman Sachs : Europe has “solved” its winter natural-gas crisis, and prices could drop by half in the...
A $2,000 Bonus for Opening a New Bank Account? Here’s the Deal With It.
High-yield savings accounts are paying far more than they did last year. Alexey Poprugin/Dreamstime Text size High-yield savings accounts are now paying far more than they did last year — see the best...
Stock market’s June lows are back in sight after S&P 500 loses grip on 3,900
Stock-market bears maintained the upper hand last week, with the S&P 500 finishing Friday below a crucial chart support level that has technical analysts warning of a potential test of its June lo...
3 Ways Retirees Can Inflation-Proof Their Portfolios
Rather than vanishing with the final days of summer, inflation has proven stickier than anticipated. For retirees, that means not just higher daily prices, but also the chance that their savings won’t...
The worst year in U.S. history for the 60:40 portfolio
This year is not shaping up to be the worst in U.S. history for a balanced 60% stock/40% bond portfolio. It’s important to point this out not just to correct the misleading historical narrative that h...
Can the Fed tame inflation without crushing the stock market? What investors need to know.
The Federal Reserve isn’t trying to slam the stock market as it rapidly raises interest rates in its bid to slow inflation still running red hot — but investors need to be prepared for more pain and v...
The S&P 500 sank 5% in a very bad week for stocks. These 20 lost as much as 24%.
U.S. stocks sputtered Friday to close out the week in the red. The day’s declines of less than 1% for the broad indexes paled against Tuesday’s, when they sank 4% to 5%. For the week, the Dow Jones In...
Toomey tells SEC chief to be ‘on notice’ that Supreme Court may overrule new climate rule
Republicans on the Senate Banking Committee took aim at Securities and Exchange Commission Chair Gary Gensler’s plan to implement a new rule requiring disclosure of climate change risks during a heari...
A further 27% drop in the S&P 500 could be coming if inflation hawks are right, Goldman Sachs team warns
Not exactly TGIF this Friday. What the sellside is slowly realizing is not just that the Fed is going to be aggressive in September after the latest shocking inflation figure, but that the central ban...
Apple is now the market’s most-shorted stock. If Tesla is an example, that’s bullish.
Apple shareholders need not worry that it’s the most-shorted U.S. stock. I’m referring to the report from short-seller analytics firm S3 Partners that, after 864 days in which Tesla TSLA, +0.38% was a...
A punishing selloff in short-term debt is pushing one rate near the ‘magic’ level that ‘frightens’ markets
The yield on the 1-year Treasury note is testing 4%, a level that traders say could spill over into other rates and send shivers through financial markets, as the Federal Reserve presses forward in ea...
Thinking about a Roth conversion? If you have an IRA, consider this ‘bear market bonus’
If you’ve been thinking about converting a traditional IRA to a Roth IRA, here’s the good news: This year’s market turmoil may be giving you a golden opportunity to do it. That’s because the stocks an...