Monetary Policy

U.S. stocks benchmarks was climbing but off its highs off the session Wednesday, as the Federal Reserve, as expected didn’t take any action for this meeting, keeping benchmark rates at a range between 0% and 0.25%,…
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Is it time to bail out of stocks and bonds? This isn’t the market that investors likely signed up for back in 2021 when shares in GameStop Corp. GME, +4.69% and movie chain AMC Entertainment Holdings AMC,…
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U.S. home sales surged to a 15-year high in 2021, powered by low borrowing rates and an intense buyer demand that are expected to keep the market hot during the first months of 2022.But the recent rapid rise in interest rates has some…
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Stocks erased all of their gains Thursday as moves in the bond market signaled concern that the Federal Reserve may make a mistake as it raises interest rates to fight inflation.News that the economy grew faster than expected in the…
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Moonshot stocks are coming back to Earth.As the Federal Reserve moves closer to raising interest rates, investors are repricing their bets on one of the riskiest corners of the market: shares of companies that don’t make money.…
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Billionaire hedge-fund manager Bill Ackman said the Federal Reserve needs to deliver old-fashioned “shock and awe” to financial markets by delivering a much larger onetime increase to benchmark interest rates to…
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New York CNN Business  —  Stocks were mostly higher Tuesday after the US government reported that wholesale prices rose at a far less dramatic rate than expected. That news…
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U.S. stocks traded higher as economic growth data came in stronger than expected, and investors parsed more earnings from major companies. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 571 points, or 1.7%. The S&P 500 added 1.7% and the…
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The Federal Reserve signaled it would begin steadily raising interest rates in mid-March, its latest step toward removing stimulus to bring down inflation.Fed Chairman Jerome Powell said Wednesday that the…
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Is it time to bail out of stocks and bonds? This isn’t the market that investors likely signed up for back in 2021 when shares in GameStop Corp. GME, +4.69% and movie chain AMC Entertainment Holdings AMC,…
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