Investors cheered when a report last week showed the economy expanded in the third quarter after back-to-back contractions. But it’s too early to get excited, because the Federal Reserve hasn’t given ...
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Why did inflation surge to 40-year highs? Here are 4 causes of the Fed’s mistake
The first was being unaware that the foundation of the U.S. banking system had been eroded away by complex mortgage securities that carried high credit ratings but turned out to be toxic during a broa...
Opinion: Oil companies can’t just ‘drill baby drill’ at will. Here’s what it really takes to ramp up energy production.
As energy prices rage, President Biden and Republicans have urged companies to increase drilling to lower oil and gasoline prices from 14-year highs. But it’s not that simple. Even after permits are a...
Top Crypto presale of Autumn for investing now! ROI up to 207.5%
South Korean experts from the domestic exchange are convinced that the crypto winter will end before the end of the fiscal year but believe that the efforts of the US Federal Reserve to support the Un...
Jeep Quietly Leaves Huge Market
It is an adventure that ends in total anonymity. Jeep, the iconic all-terrain brand in the automotive industry, has just quietly left one of the most important automotive markets: China. The Asian gi...
Apple’s Big Problem Gets Bigger
Apple (AAPL) has been one of the big surprises of the current quarterly earnings season so far. The manufacturer of the iPhone and the iPad managed to thwart the most optimistic forecasts during th...
Opinion: Forget the $22,500 limit, some workers can supersize their tax-deferred retirement savings up to $265,000 in 2023
If you really want to rev up your retirement savings and minimize income taxes, the best thing to be is a late-career professional in private practice. When you’re making a lot of money and are close ...
When retirement is a month away, here’s what you need to do
When retirement is coming up close—and you have that exciting date in mind—make sure you have everything organized to make it a seamless, enjoyable transition. Retirement Tip of the Week: Before you ...
Investing Whiz Sharon Hill Says Dividend Stocks Are a Good Place to Be Right Now; Here Are Two High-Yield Payers That Analysts Like
Dividend stocks. They’re the very picture of the reliable standby, the sound defensive play that investors make when markets turn south. Div stocks tend not to show as extreme shifts as the broader ma...
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...
Cash key for Chevron and Exxon Mobil as Truist raises stock price targets
Chevron Corp. and Exxon Mobil Corp.’s strong cash positions have prompted Truist Securities to raise its price targets for the oil and gas giants, as the stocks of both companies rallied toward fresh ...
All Is Not ‘Peachy’ at Ford and There’s No Reason for Traders to Chase It
On Monday morning the Wall Street Journal reported that the Ford Motor Co (F) would offer severance packages to some white-collar employees who have eight years of service or more and whose performanc...
BYD Powers EV Ecosystem, Policy Support For Internet Companies Articulated
China Last Night KraneShares Key News Asian equities were largely higher overnight except for Mainland China and Hong Kong, which were mixed. Over the weekend, China’s State Council recommended eight ...
TuSimple Stock Plunges After Firing CEO Amid Probe Into China Ties
Updated at 9:10 am EST TuSimple Holdings (TSP) shares plunged lower Monday after it fired CEO Xiaodi Hou following weekend reports that the self-driving truck company is facing a series of federal p...
5 Emerging Market ETFs That Limit China Investments
Chinese President Xi Jinping’s unprecedented third term as head of the ruling Communist Party rattled investors who see his stacking of loyalists as less than friendly to markets. Some China-focused e...
Doug Kass: Here’s Why Easy Money Often Winds Up in Money Heaven
There are an increasing number of examples of the tide going out and exposing us to who is swimming naked. Excessive monetary growth gave capital to the likes of Chamath Palihapitiya, Cathie Wood and...
Federal Taxes Will Hit a Lot More People This Year
Few things are more pleasant that when an accountant runs through what you’ve earned and paid and confirms that you will not owe any extra taxes in April. On the other hand, few things are worse...
Apple Stock Jumps on Earnings but Faces Key Test on the Chart
Apple (AAPL) helped lend some stability to the Nasdaq last night when it reported earnings after the close. Now it’s doing so on Friday. Big tech has not reacted well to earnings this week and Amazo...
As China-U.S. Relations Cool, Reshoring Heats Up. Honeywell and Other Stocks That Should Benefit.
The gulf between the U.S. and China is widening, which could be good news for stocks benefiting from the reshoring of industries that migrated over the past 40 years. If President Xi Jinping’s consoli...
Will the stock market be higher in 12 months? Here are the odds.
Odds are good the stock market will be higher in 12 months’ time. The probabilities are two out of three, in fact. These odds are not based on any privileged insight into whether the economy will expe...
3 High Dividend Stocks to Buy and Hold
When it comes to finding great stocks to hold for the long-term, investors have many routes that can be taken to accumulate wealth. Some stocks are value-oriented, offering shareholders a cheap purcha...
Why retirement calculators fail the people who need them most — and what to do about it
Or were you so overwhelmed by the steps and questions that you only increased the amount you were saving by a little bit — or not at all? If you fall into the latter category, don’t feel bad. A new st...
SBF Was Keen on Investing Up to $15 Billion in Twitter
On Friday, October 28, the world’s richest man Elon Musk successfully completed his deal to acquire Twitter. A lot has been happening in the space since with Musk announcing some content moderation pl...
Opinion: A seasonal stock market trade that tends to be reliable begins Thursday
The stock market has broken through technical resistance, and as a result the rally is trying to extend itself. Specifically, the S&P 500’s SPX, +2.46% close above 3800 points was a strong technic...
Small-Cap Stocks Have Rarely Been So Depressed. 7 to Buy Now.
Longtime investor Nicholas F. Galluccio has seen his fair share of market turmoil, but one thing has remained constant over nearly four decades: a focus on finding small stocks with big prospects. Gal...
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...
Why I don’t want I-bonds
There’s been such a rush to buy “I-bonds,” inflation-protected bonds from the U.S. government, that the TreasuryDirect website crashed. I-bonds have been one of the hottest investments of the year. Pe...
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...
U.S. Treasury sweetens the pot on I-bonds by adding a fixed rate
After record-breaking sales of I-bonds in October, the U.S. Treasury is dangling another good deal in front of savers for the next six months. Starting Nov. 2, when I-bonds will be available again af...