Deutsche Bank says there’s a 90% chance of recession. But, without one, S&P 500 can get to 5,000.
One of Wall Street’s most pessimistic banks is conceding that the economic outlook has improved. But Deutsche Bank, in a new update of its house view, still says there’s a 90% chance of a U.S. recession this year. It says that while there’s evidence inflation has peaked, it’s still well above central-bank targets and likely […]
Fed Officials Signal Higher Interest Rates Will Be Needed to Contain Inflation
A senior Federal Reserve official said the economy will need higher borrowing costs for a few years to bring down inflation and prevent price pressures from strengthening. “We still have some work to do to get interest rates in the right place,” said New York Fed President John Williams at The Wall Street Journal’s CFO […]
China Has More ICBM Launchers Than U.S., American Military Reports
WSJ News ExclusiveChinaWhile the U.S. leads in intercontinental missiles and warheads, China’s gains are fueling debate in Congress Source link
Biden’s dramatic warning to China
CNN — President Joe Biden starkly warned he will protect America against Chinese threats to its sovereignty and singled out President Xi Jinping – a striking escalation of a suspected spy balloon showdown during his State of the Union address. Biden called out Beijing on Tuesday before millions of viewers in the US and around […]
Koch brothers–founded group is pushing Republicans to turn the page on Donald Trump
The late David Koch, who died in 2019, is shown during a speech by then–Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke at the Economic Club of New York seven years earlier. Bloomberg WASHINGTON — A group funded by billionaire Charles Koch will work to support a Republican presidential nominee other than Donald Trump, concluding in a strategy memo that “we need […]
Gabbard, Kucinich aim to disrupt two-party voting system at Independent confab
Two former Democratic presidential candidates, Tulsi Gabbard of the 2020 race — and former longtime Ohio politician Dennis Kucinich, a 2004 and 2008 early contender for the White House — will headline the second-ever Independent National Convention (INC) this spring in Austin, Texas. It’s an event intentionally set during a non-election year because organizers argue […]
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 […]
Amazon cut 67,000 jobs in 2022, the first yearly decline in 20 years
Amazon.com Inc. had a pretty bad year in 2022, with the e-commerce and cloud giant recording its biggest loss ever, and with its stock suffering a yearly record loss. Its employees had a bad year, too: For the first time in 20 years, the company shrank its workforce. According to Amazon’s 2022 annual report, released […]
State of the Union: 5 key challenges for Biden as he delivers his speech
President Joe Biden will face no small task on Tuesday night, when he delivers his State of the Union speech after a little more than two years in office.Biden looks poised to tackle the debt-limit standoff, recession worries and acts of violence at home and abroad in his remarks. At the same time, American presidents […]
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 […]