68% of Americans couldn’t cover their living expenses for even a month if they lost their job, survey finds. The good news? Now is the best time in years to fix that.
The median amount of cash saved by Americans under the age of 35, not including retirement funds, was just $3,240 last year, according to government data. istock Recession — and layoff — fears loom large over many households. Nearly half of U.S. adults feel the country is already in a recession, a Morning Consult report […]
Secret to 2023 stock rally? Central banks have provided $1 trillion liquidity boost.
Gains for global equities have left many on Wall Street perplexed as stocks — especially high-risk growth names with little or no profits — have rebounded from last year’s punishing selloff, resisting both the pull of more attractive bond yields, and the threat of higher interest rates. But some Wall Street analysts say they’ve found […]
‘The U.S. housing market is crumbling under the weight of higher mortgage rates and rock-bottom affordability’: Prices fell the most in these U.S. states
Americans are finding it hard to afford homes at mortgage levels now beyond 7%, according to some measures. Home prices have begun to reflect that. As mortgage rates rose in the last quarter of 2022, Americans found the cost of homeownership increasingly challenging, adding hundreds of dollars in interest to their potential monthly mortgage payment. […]
Bitcoin Price Falls. There’s Trouble at Silvergate.
Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies were falling Thursday, under pressure but holding key levels amid signs of distress at Silvergate Capital an influential banker to the digital asset industry. The price of Bitcoin has declined nearly 2% over the past 24 hours to $23,275. The largest crypto has consolidated between $23,000 and $24,000 in recent weeks, […]
Fed’s Goolsbee says this is a ‘strange and unprecedented moment’ for U.S. economy
The U.S. economy is in a strange and unprecedented moment, according to Austan Goolsbee, the new president of the Chicago Federal Reserve Bank. In his first speech since taking office last month, Goolsbee said he had no doubt that the economy will face “bumps in the road.” He gave the speech at an event hosted […]
Risk of ‘wrathful Old Testament–style’ reaction from central banks is rising, JPMorgan says
The “gentle and forgiving path” taken by developed-market central banks to rein in inflation over the past year is likely to prove unsuccessful and trigger the need for more forceful, biblical-type action.That’s the view of economists Bruce Kasman, Joseph Lupton and Michael Hanson of JPMorgan Chase & Co. JPM, +1.10%, who described the response of […]
Strategist who loves challenging consensus sticks by call for 8% fed-funds rate
Dominique Dwor-Frecaut, a former associate with the New York Fed and outlier from the rest of the financial-market pack, is standing by a bold call she made a year ago: She says the Federal Reserve needs to hike its benchmark interest rate to 8%, versus the current level of 4.5%-4.75%, to stabilize inflation and could […]
Opinion: The stock market’s rally was a head fake and the smart money now is with the bears
The stock market, as measured by the S&P 500 Index SPX, +0.53%, has fallen below the 4100 level. That is significant because there previously was triple resistance at that level, and when SPX broke out above that level in late January, it seemed as if the next leg of the “new” bull market was underway. […]
Opinion: No ‘soft landing’ is in the cards from Fed rate hikes. Look for recession and a buying opportunity once stock prices decline.
Is the bear market of 2022 over? Are we already in the early innings of the next great bull market? The S&P 500 SPX, -0.16% finished 2022 with a 19% decline (its biggest pullback since 2008). Meanwhile, the Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, -0.26% lost 8.8% and the Nasdaq COMP, +0.13% tumbled 33%. It’s been […]
Office Landlord Defaults Are Escalating as Lenders Brace for More Distress
Real EstateProperty ReportDelinquency rate for office loans that back commercial-mortgage-backed securities remains low, but it is heading higher Source link