The Fed has more reason not to hike its key interest rate next week, if the sudden banking crisis weren’t enough. Retail sales slipped a bit more than forecast and the producer price index unexp...
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European Stocks, US Futures Slip on Rate-Hike Bets: Markets Wrap
(Bloomberg) — Stocks in Europe declined amid disappointing results from large clothing retailers and worries over Credit Suisse Group AG. US equity futures edged lower and short-end Treasury yie...
ECB’s Chance to Guide Rate-Hike Views Won’t Last Long
(Bloomberg) — If European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde and her colleagues need to hone the guidance about their final interest-rate increase for 2022, the window to do so is closing....
Stocks rally, dollar tumbles, as Powell signaled to slow rate-hike pace in December
Once again, it was Jerome Powell, the Federal Reserve’s Chair, the one who moved financial markets. In a highly anticipated speech on Wednesday at the Brookings Institution, a think tank based in Wash...
Stocks Boosted by Rate-Hike Outlook; Dollar Slips: Markets Wrap
(Bloomberg) — European stocks gained and the dollar fell after Federal Reserve meeting minutes showed support for more moderate interest-rate increases. Most Read from Bloomberg The Stoxx Europe...
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...
Gold Plunges to Lowest in Two Years Amid Fed Rate-Hike Bets
(Bloomberg) — Gold fell to the lowest since April 2020 amid expectations of more aggressive interest-rate hikes by the Federal Reserve despite a fresh round of mixed US data. Most Read from Bloo...
The stock market typically bottoms before the end of a Fed rate-hike cycle. Here’s how to make that bet pay off.
A lot of money can be made betting on when the Federal Reserve will “pivot” — that is, take its foot at least partially off the rate-hike gas pedal. Yet a lot of money can also be lost, as we saw on A...
Dollar Softens as CPI Data Changes Fed Rate-Hike Expectations
Updated Aug. 10, 2022 1:36 pm ET | WSJ Pro 13:24 ET – Weaker-than-expected CPI has changed the market’s view of the Fed’s rate-increase trajectory over the next year or so, Bruce Clark, senior m...
Here’s what Bill Ackman says Powell should tell traders about Fed rate-hike plans
“‘Tomorrow, Powell is likely to be asked: “Market pricing implies that the terminal FF rate will peak at 3.4% in 12/22 immediately declining thereafter to 2.7% by YE ‘23. What factors would cause the ...
A Fed Rate-Hike Surprise Could Be a Problem for Stocks
Text size The Federal Reserve continues to play catch-up in its fight against inflation, and there’s no doubt that interest rates are headed higher after its meeting ends on Wednesday. Chip Somo...
Commodity price declines may shape Fed’s rate-hike path, says economist
A significant downturn in commodity prices could give the Federal Reserve cover to change its aggressive pace of planned interest rate hikes, according to a report from Capital Economics. The centra...
Powell’s Fed Rate-Hike Plans Get Jolted by Inflation: Eco Week
(Bloomberg) — Sign up for the New Economy Daily newsletter, follow us @economics and subscribe to our podcast. Most Read from Bloomberg Jerome Powell could deliver a hawkish surprise on Wednesda...
Real estate is still hot — so how can I take advantage of the rate-hike worries? These 3 REITs let you invest in high-quality property without millions of dollars
Real estate is still hot — so how can I take advantage of the rate-hike worries? These 3 REITs let you invest in high-quality property without millions of dollars Here’s a hard lesson that many new in...
CIO: this sub-sector within financials is my top rate-hike play
Financials tend to outperform when rates go up; that’s the consensus. But there’s a sub-sector in this space that’s particularly well-positioned to benefit from the rate hikes, says ...
The 60/40 portfolio ‘is in danger’ as Federal Reserve gears up for a rate-hike cycle in coming months
The traditional portfolio mix of 60% stocks and 40% bonds, historically seen as the safest allocation for investors of moderate-risk tolerance, “is in danger” as the Federal Reserve gears up for its f...
Get ready for the climb. Here’s what history says about stock-market returns during Fed rate-hike cycles.
Bond yields are rising again so far in 2022. The U.S. stock market seems vulnerable to a bona fide correction. But what can you really tell from a mere two weeks into a new year? Not much and quite a ...
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...