Stagflation is making a comeback, according to former Morgan Stanley Asia chairman Stephen Roach. He warns the U.S. is on a dangerous path that leads to higher prices coupled with slower growth. ̶...
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Investors Have ‘Nowhere To Hide’ As S&P 500 Nears Bear Market Territory
Topline The stock market moved lower on Thursday, pushing the S&P 500 to the brink of bear market territory as investors continued to offload shares following warnings from major retailers about i...
CEO outlook dims sharply, with more than half expecting a recession ahead, survey shows
Corporate executives are taking a dim view of their prospects, with a majority now expecting a recession ahead, according to a closely watched business survey released Wednesday. The Conference Board ...
Weekly mortgage demand from homebuyers tumbles 12%
A sign of a home for sale is pictured in Alhambra, California on May 4, 2022. Frederic J. Brown | AFP | Getty Images Mortgage rates actually fell slightly last week, but the damage has already been do...
Dow Jumps 400 Points After Powell Says Fed ‘Won’t Hesitate’ To Keep Raising Rates To Combat Inflation
Topline The stock market moved higher on Tuesday in an attempt to bounce back after six consecutive weeks of heavy losses, as investors digested the latest comments from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome P...
Inflation is the ‘top problem’ facing America, survey shows
A worker stocks items inside a grocery store in San Francisco, California, May 2, 2022. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Meanwhile, President Joe Biden also has faced blowback over continu...
Home affordability at 2007 bubble level but crash unlikely: Blackstone
A major Wall Street firm is drawing a striking parallel to the housing bubble. Blackstone’s Joe Zidle calls homes almost as unaffordable as the 2007 peak. Yet, he believes a crash is unlikely du...
Biden ‘Endorsed’ Fed ‘Shock Therapy’—Why The $1 Trillion Bitcoin, Ethereum And Crypto Price Crash Could Be Just Getting Started
Bitcoin BTC and cryptocurrency prices have been hit by an almighty sell-off this month, wiping around $1 trillion from the crypto market since early April—though Elon Musk surprised some by signaling ...
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell confirmed by Senate for a second term
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell speaks at a news conference following a Federal Open Market Committee meeting on May 04, 2022 in Washington, DC. Powell announced the Federal Reserve is raising ...
Contra Simpleton Pundits, ‘the Fed’ Didn’t Cause the Stock-Market Correction
Every stock-market rally is top heavy. In other words, every stock-market rally is led upwards by the very few. The 80/20 Pareto Principle that defines so much of life is 95/5 when it comes to equitie...
Dollar Strength Bucks Inflation Woes
Years ago, high U.S. inflation meant a weak dollar. So far, it is different this time, and many on Wall Street are betting it will stay that way. The dollar is reaching multidecade highs against its t...
What The Fed Rate Hike Means For The Markets And Investors
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell Getty Images The Federal Reserve announced this week that it’s raising rates by 50 basis points. The Fed raised its main interest rate by half a percentage point...
Technicals Point To More Stock Market Carnage Ahead
The S&P 500 is down 13% this year, while the tech-heavy Nasdaq is already in bear market territory. YCharts The S&P 500 index cratered 3.6% Thursday, erasing Wednesday afternoon’s gains follow...
The Stock Market Panic Is Here
A trader looks on as stocks plummet (Photo by Johannes EISELE / AFP) AFP via Getty Images Can you feel it? “Risk investing” just lost its glamour. Coming onstage is “safety first,...
Why the market is taking Powell’s ‘soft-ish’ economic language so hard
Roger Ferguson Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty Images Anyone who read a Fed chair coining the term “soft-ish” for an economic landing, as Jerome Powell did on Wednesday, as a bullish sig...
Consumers at breaking point as Fed inflation battle heats up: Boockvar
The economy may be hitting a crucial turning point. Investor Peter Boockvar warns the Federal Reserve will not be able to meaningfully contain surging inflation, and there’s not much more consum...
Cramer says stock relief rally won’t vanquish the bears
CNBC’s Jim Cramer said Wednesday he’s still “drawn to owning stocks,” even as the Federal Reserve aggressively raises interest rates in such a way that some skeptics believe wi...
Dow Jumps 900 Points After Federal Reserve Hikes Interest Rates By Half-Percentage Point
Topline The stock market surged higher on Wednesday after the Federal Reserve raised interest rates by 0.5% in a move widely-anticipated by investors, as the central bank continues on its path of aggr...
Federal Reserve Statement May: Here’s what changed
This is a comparison of Wednesday’s Federal Open Market Committee statement with the one issued after the Fed’s previous policymaking meeting on March 16. Text removed from the March state...
Despite interest rate hikes, Tony Dwyer predicts sharp market bounce
While Wall Street braces for a half point interest rate hike on Wednesday, Canaccord Genuity’s Tony Dwyer sees the ingredients for a sharp market bounce. However, it’s unrelated to a funda...
Fed Triggers Stark $10,000 Bitcoin Crash Warning
Bitcoin BTC and cryptocurrency prices have been stuck in a holding pattern ahead of the Federal Reserve’s closely-watched Wednesday interest rate decision that could come with a $9 trillion bomb...
50% of market is in a bubble, Dan Suzuki warns as Fed gets ready to meet
The market may be in the early innings of a dramatic decline. Despite Monday’s tech comeback, money manager Dan Suzuki of Richard Bernstein Advisors warns the group is in a “bubble.”...
Fears of a Fed mistake grow as this week’s anticipated interest rate hike looms
Jerome Powell, Chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve, attends the National Association of Business Economicseconomic policy conference in Washington, D.C, United States on March 21, 2022. Yasin Ozturk ...
Stagflation risk rises as the Federal Reserve tightens monetary policy
The Federal Reserve is hiking interest rates in an effort to defuse an explosive year of price inflation. But global forces could neutralize the effects of that tightening of monetary policy, and keep...
Bitcoin And Crypto Now Braced For A $9 Trillion Fed Earthquake As The Price Of Ethereum, BNB, Solana, Cardano, XRP, Terra’s Luna And Avalanche Crater
Bitcoin BTC and cryptocurrency prices have fallen along with stock markets this year as investors brace for a more hawkish Federal Reserve. Subscribe now to Forbes’ CryptoAsset & Blockchain ...
Powell’s Plan To Exorcise Inflation Echoes Early 1980s Volcker Crusade
With few exceptions, stocks last week were savaged in the wake of comments made by Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell that all but assured a half-point rate hike at the Federal Open Market Committ...
Do Serious People Still Take Seriously the Fed and ‘Soft Landings’?
Who is the most productive 3-point NBA shooter over the last two years? The nature of the question should quickly reveal it as a trick one of sorts. In other words, the answer isn’t Steph Curry. But t...
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 ...
Dow Plunges Nearly 1,000 Points In ‘Brutal And Ugly’ End-Of-Week Market Selloff Spurred By Hawkish Fed
Topline The stock market plunged for a second straight day Friday as investors continued to digest the possibility that Federal Reserve officials will act more aggressively than expected—potentially r...
Dow Drops Over 300 Points, Yields Surge After Powell Signals Bigger Rate Hikes Starting In May
Topline The stock market reversed gains and moved lower on Thursday following comments from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, who signaled aggressive interest rate hikes ahead while all but confirm...
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...