Fed raises interest rates by .5%. US stock market… rallies?
You heard that right. The Fed raises interest rates by a scary 0.5%. And the US stock market rallies? What's going on here?
You heard that right. The Fed raises interest rates by a scary 0.5%. And the US stock market rallies? What's going on here?
Wall Street continued Tuesday's ongoing stock market plunge. Selling intensified, as Wednesday's selling splurge worsened.
Fearing rising interest rates, investors in US stocks now understand that their government has "no coherent narrative" on the economy.
Monday Holiday Week trading action began with a rally and ended with a crash. Looks like Tuesday trading might do the same.
Biden ineptitude, ongoing Covid nonsense, poor July retail sales numbers and continuing fear of the Fed clobbered US stocks.
Cleveland-Cliffs (NYSE:CLF) is attempting to recover from Friday’s intense selling, while hapless Lordstown Motors (RIDE) caught a break.
US stocks remain indecisive Monday's. Unemployment numbers, fear of Fed "taper tantrum, and the Dr Fauci scandal don't help the situation.
WASHINGTON – Thursday’s seemingly moderate market gloomfest promptly bumped Wednesday afternoon’s positive, post-FOMC party back to square one. One reason: Wednesday’s benign interest rate environment did an about face Thursday, kicking the 10-year Treasury quote up to current record levels. In addition, that always volatile March quarter quadruple witching phenomenon, happening tomorrow, also looms, threatening ...
Mr Market is back up to his old, indecisive tricks. Having failed to learn from past experience, he's once again “Waiting for Godot.”
Techs led Monday’s cascade of stock market selling, dealing the tech-heavy NASDAQ one of its worst days in recent memory.
FINRA whacked Robinhood, a favored investment trading platform of millennials, for exposing their newbie traders to unnecessary risks.
So has the Great Trump Rally II resumed? Did Fed Chair Jay Powell just help Wall Street bulls with his Thursday policy announcement?
Wednesday's negative Fed minutes, followed by remarks by Fed Chair Jerome Powell, quickly extinguished a modest morning rally on Wall Street.
June's job increase figure was 4.8 million. The 11.1% unemployment number exceeded expectations, confirming that the US is in a V-shaped economic recovery.
We’re all gonna die, because GOP, Trump, coronavirus redux, Bad News Banks and anything else we don’t like. Sell! Sell! Sell! Rinse, repeat.
Fed Chair Powell had good news Wednesday on sustaining near zero interest rates. He also had some positive if time-delayed news on the US GDP as well.
The Federal Reserve dramatically stepped into the coronavirus fray. In its boldest move yet, the Fed unleashed the Mother of All QEs Monday morning.
Notably, Trump's economic policies included strong measures to reverse former President Obama’s economic policy, thus stimulating the US economy.
Nearly perfect economic conditions, low inflation and low unemployment should lead to a rosy US economic forecast for 2020 and beyond.
Continuing confusion over the Fed, the upcoming UK election, and the always-tantalizing China trade issue continues to roil US stocks.