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Text size A copper smelter in Jinhua, China. Copper prices, often a signal of where the economy is headed, fell 6% this past week. Top Photo/Sipa USA/Alamy The stock market has predicted nine of the past five recessions, economist Paul Samuelson famously quipped back in the 1960s. A half-century later, is the stock market driving … Read More “Stocks Break Out. There Are Signs Inflation and Interest Rates May Peak Sooner.” »
Investors are anxious the stock market may be facing an earnings recession, potentially leading to deeper losses after the S&P 500 index just suffered its worst week since March 2020. “It’s pretty clear that earning estimates are probably going to come down after rising since the first of the year,” said Bob Doll, chief investment … Read More “Why stock-market investors are ‘nervous’ that an earnings recession may be looming” »
The Friday before the Federal Reserve’s interest-rate decision will be most remembered for the surprise acceleration in consumer prices, which took inflation to a fresh 40-year high. But there was another piece of data released that day that seemed to have weighed at least as much on the minds of Federal Reserve policymakers — the … Read More “Here’s the comment from Powell that could make it hard for the Fed to slow down the pace of interest-rate hikes” »
Text size Uncredited It will be a quiet week on the earnings calendar between earnings seasons. The most important event of the week for investors will be the conclusion of the Federal Reserve’s interest rate-setting committee’s June meeting on Wednesday. The Federal Open Market Committee will issue a monetary policy decision after its two-day meeting ends … Read More “Federal Reserve Meeting, Oracle and Adobe Earnings, May Inflation Data, and More to Watch This Week” »
David Paul Morris/Bloomberg Text size This commentary was issued recently by money managers, research firms, and market newsletter writers and has been edited by Barron’s. U.S. Gets Ranked on Inflation DB CoTD [Chart of the Day] Deutsche Bank ResearchJune 10: Today’s U.S. inflation print continued the trend of upside surprises, coming in at 8.6% year … Read More “Inflation Has Become a Global Problem. Where the U.S. Ranks” »
Text size Uncredited It will be a quiet week on the earnings calendar between earnings seasons. The most important event of the week for investors will be the conclusion of the Federal Reserve’s interest rate-setting committee’s June meeting on Wednesday. The Federal Open Market Committee will issue a monetary policy decision after its two-day meeting ends … Read More “Federal Reserve Meeting, Oracle and Adobe Earnings, May Inflation Data, and More for Investors to Watch This Week” »
Stock-market investors crowded the exits on Thursday, sending major stock indexes sharply lower a day ahead of another eagerly anticipated consumer-price index reading. Recent history may offer a clue. “While median returns for the S&P 500 have been right around the flatline over the last two years on CPI days, more recent returns have been … Read More “The stock market and inflation: How the S&P 500 performs on CPI report days” »
Text size Uncredited It’s a relatively quiet week on the earnings calendar. Highlights will include JM Smucker on Tuesday, Campbell Soup on Wednesday and DocuSign, NIO and Vail Resorts on Thursday. Pfizer is also hosting an investor meeting on Monday, and Advanced Micro Devices is hosting a financial analyst day on Thursday. The highlight of … Read More “AMD, Pfizer, NIO, DocuSign, Campbell Soup and other stocks that investors can see this week” »
Text size President Joe Biden has said getting inflation under control is his “top priority.” Anna Moneymaker / Getty Images President Joe Biden is due to meet with Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell on Tuesday to discuss the state of the economy. The central bank is currently struggling with decades of high inflation. The meeting … Read More “Biden will meet with Fed Powell on Tuesday to discuss economics” »
The home is where the heart is, and the money, if inflationary trends do not cool down. This is according to the latest Deutsche Bank survey among investors, who say that property will be their most preferred buy-and-hold asset class if inflation remains high – averaging between 3% and 5% over the next decade. “Despite … Read More “Here, it is the asset that investors want if inflation remains high, says Deutsche Bank. And crypto is not even ‘on the radar’” »
