No wonder Powell didn’t commit to extra hikes. Here are five reasons the January jobs report may be too good to be true.
Traders took heart that Fed Chair Jerome Powell, when he wasn’t being questioned by David Rubinstein on how he gets by on $190,000 per year, didn’t commit on Tuesday to having to be even more aggressive on interest rates given the huge 517,000 surge in nonfarm payrolls. Powell said rates would have to go even […]
Flying-motorcycle maker loses altitude in stock debut
Aerwins Technology Inc.’s stock lost about 56% of its value on Monday after the blank-check company Pono Capital completed its acquisition of the maker of battery-powered flying motorcycles. Aerwins was valued at $600 million when Pono Capital announced plans to buy the company in September. The stock fell to $5 a share on Monday after […]
The next few days may reveal whether investors have been riding one big suckers rally, says this strategist.
Stock futures are pointing due south as caution grips investors following Friday’s monster jobs beat. While subject to revisions, that 517,000 surge in U.S. jobs may have shredded hopes among some that the Fed will be done with rate hikes sooner rather than later. “Half a million jobs, climb down off the wall, call the recession […]
This trader nailed two big market calls in 2022. She says investors are ‘being paid to wait’ so should steer clear of stocks for 2023.
Ahead of major tech earnings, Meta results are ready to light up the Nasdaq Composite COMP for Thursday. The S&P 500 SPX is also pointing to gains as investors take a glass-half full view of the Fed meeting. Worried that investors are in the clutches of another Fed misread is the founder of LaDucTrading.com, Samantha LaDuc. “The […]
The airline rewards programs that give the most value
Airline reward programs offer a simple proposition: If you fly with our airline a bunch, you’ll get paid back in the form of miles or points that can be used for future travel. Yet understanding how many miles you’ll earn, and how much these miles are worth, can be anything but simple. These reward programs […]
It’s a key week for the stock market. If you’re not nervous, you should be, this global strategist warns.
Investors have got the jitters as a big week unfolds — several central bank meetings including the Fed, earnings from Apple and Amazon.com, and jobs data. Yikes.Any investor out there who isn’t nervous, perhaps should recheck his gut, says our call of the day, from Standard Chartered’s global head of research, Eric Robertsen. “We do […]
What CEOs Are Saying: ‘The Consumer Is Under Pressure’: WSJ
Here’s what leaders from Nasdaq, Microsoft, Tesla and elsewhere said about the economy, inflation and other topics this week. Source link
The automotive battle to watch isn’t Tesla; it’s China vs the world
China is certainly seen as the manufacturing hub of the world but there’s one area of global production that’s largely untouched and it’s the biggest one: Automotive. There aren’t many countries where you would see an Chinese built or designed vehicle on the roads but that may soon change, and it could be far more […]
Fed rate cuts always lead to stock-market gains — but this one thing must happen too, veteran Wall Street strategist says
It’s way too early to proclaim a Goldilocks environment, even if major asset classes are at least pointing to a better chance of it. The S&P 500 SPX has gained 5% this year, and the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite COMP is up 8%, even with a seemingly daily stream of job-cut announcements. Stay tuned Thursday to […]
Americans Are Struggling To Pay Car Loans
By ZeroHedge – Jan 21, 2023, 2:00 PM CST Severely delinquent car loans are reaching the highest rate since the financial crisis of 2009. Cox Automotive: loans delinquent by more than two months increased by 5.3% and jumped 26.7% from a year ago. Cox Automotive said even though an increasing amount of people are […]