With Wall Street jitters increasing over the number of interest rate hikes ahead, VettaFi’s Todd Rosenbluth sees signs of a comeback in managed fixed-income exchange-traded funds. “It̵...
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A Sideways Stock Market and the Case for Selling in March
Investors have heard the dictum “sell in May and go away.” This year they might want to consider selling in March. The May adage follows from market seasonality. Historically, investors have realized ...
Strong Economic Data Weaken the Case for Continued Stock Rally
The dash for trash has hit a speed bump. Stocks faltered again this past week as the early-year rally, led by rebounds in 2022’s speculative-grade losers, ran into resistance from higher expected inte...
‘The risk is that we’re going to hit the brakes very, very hard,’ Larry Summers says
“‘The risk is that we’re going to hit the brakes very, very hard.’ ” — Larry Summers Almost a full year of monetary-policy tightening by the Federal Reserve appears to be having little impact on price...
Why January’s CPI report could deal a massive blow to the stock market
The stock market’s start-of-year rally is poised to fizzle if a highly-anticipated U.S. inflation report on Tuesday dashes hopes for a quicker retreat in the cost of living in America, warned market a...
The hunt for stocks with rising dividends: These fund managers have a strategy to keep your payouts growing
The broad stock-market rally so far in 2023 might make it easy to forget what a rough ride investors faced last year. It was a time when some active strategies focused on dividends, good cash-flow tre...
When To Expect The Fed To Raise Rates Again
Jerome Powell, chairman of the US Federal Reserve. The Fed is expected to increase rates again at … [+] the conclusion of their next meeting on March 22. Photographer: Valerie Plesch/Bloomberg ©...
‘Cash is the cool kid on the block’: High-yield savings accounts, Treasury Bills, money market funds, and CDs — here’s where your cash can earn up to 4.5%
Cash isn’t just the dollar bills you put in your pocket — in this market, it might seem to be a patch of steady ground. There are multiple options: People can put their money in high-yield savings acc...
Jobs report tells markets what Fed chairman Powell tried to tell them
Oh dear. A lot of investors just learned again, the hard way, the old rule: When someone tries to tell you something about themselves, listen. On Wednesday afternoon Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Po...
The Fed raised interest rates this week. So here’s what you should be earning on your savings account now
Savings accounts are already paying far more than they did even a year ago. Getty Images/iStockphoto On Wednesday, the Federal Reserve raised interest rates a quarter percentage point, and officials n...
If you haven’t switched your savings account recently, now may be the time
Getty Images/iStockphoto On Wednesday, the Federal Reserve raised interest rates again — which is good news for savers. What’s more, savers have been seeing yields on savings accounts rise for months ...
Why the Fed’s interest rate hike is ‘good news for mortgage rates’
The Federal Reserve’s move to hike interest rates signals good news for the housing sector, some experts say. The central bank hiked its benchmark interest rate on Wednesday by a quarter percentage po...
Wall Street to Jerome Powell: We don’t believe you
Do you want the good news about the Federal Reserve and its chairman Jerome Powell, the other good news…or the bad news? Let’s start with the first bit of good news. Powell and his fellow Fed committe...
As Fed raises rates by a quarter point, here’s where financial advisers are telling their clients to invest — and store — their money
The Federal Reserve boosted its influential interest rate yet again Wednesday, even as more signs indicate that inflation is cooling. It hiked the benchmark’s key rate by a quarter of a basis point, b...
10 best high-interest savings accounts for February 2023
10 savings accounts that deliver rates that top 4%. Getty Images/iStockphoto Want to let your hard-earned cash work for you? How about letting it work more than 15x harder than the national average? T...
Investors dangerously ignoring bear market impact on earnings
Famed short seller Jim Chanos sees an alarming trend in the market. “I’ve been on the Street [since] 1980 [and] not one bear market has ever traded above nine times to 14 times the previou...
Opinion: The Fed expects a ‘soft landing’ and no recession for the economy. We could get stagflation instead.
I am especially wary of economists — that includes Federal Reserve members and well as former Fed members — who are quick to see a soft landing for the U.S. economy. Soft landings are rare. Former Fed...
The Fed’s Interest-Rate Hikes Seem to Be Working. Here’s How You Can Tell.
The Federal Reserve faces another big decision this coming week. Markets expect it to hike rates by a quarter of a percentage point, a marked slowdown as inflation cools. But another metric also sugge...
Inflation rate slows again to 15-month low, PCE shows, as U.S. economy weakens
The numbers: The cost of U.S. goods and services rose a scant 0.1% in December in yet another sign inflation is cooling off, opening the door for the Federal Reserve to stop raising interest rates soo...
Fed set to deliver quarter-point rate hike along with ‘one last hawkish sting in the tail’
The Federal Reserve will downshift to a 25 basis point rise in its policy interest rate at their upcoming interest-rate meeting and will work overtime to make sure that the market doesn’t get the idea...
The Next PCE Report Lands Today. What It Will Say About Inflation.
The Federal Reserve’s preferred measure of rising prices is set to show that inflation continues to trend downward, supporting the narrative that the central bank could soon ease up in its battle agai...
JPMorgan’s Kolanovic sees correction, hard landing
JPMorgan’s Marko Kolanovic is abstaining from the early 2023 rally. Instead, the Institutional Investor hall-of-famer is bracing for a 10% or more correction in the first half of this year, tell...
The Fed’s Impossible Choice: Eliminate Jobs or Accept Higher Inflation
Text size The Fed may opt to wait in the first half of 2023 rather than keep raising rates, Sonia Meskin writes. Alex Wong/Getty Images About the author: Sonia Meskin is the head of U.S. Macro at BNY ...
The Fed Says It Won’t Cut Rates in 2023. Markets Disagree. Who’s Right?
Text size The Marriner S. Eccles Federal Reserve Board Building in Washington, DC. Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images About the author: Christopher Smart is chief global strategist and head of the Barings Inv...
Dow drops over 600 points, posts worst day of year after weak economic data, hawkish Fed remarks erase inflation cheer
U.S. stock indexes finished sharply lower on Wednesday, with both the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the S&P 500 index booking their worst day in over a month, after data on falling retail sales...
Netflix, Goldman Sachs, United Airlines, Morgan Stanley, and More Stocks to Watch This Week
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Generous Bond Yields Prove There Is an Alternative to Stocks
Return with us to ancient times, when dinosaurs ruled, at least in technology terms. It was early 2007, when Blackberries were in everybody’s mitts and the first iPhone hadn’t yet gone on sale, let al...