U.S. stocks pared early losses on Friday with the Dow turning mildly positive as investors scrutinized more economic data and Federal Reserve commentary following Thursday’s promising inflation report, as well Read more
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Tesla is a ‘soft-landing’ stock, says Goldman Sachs. Here are its picks for a gentle economic landing and stocks for a recession.
Pour one out for the beleaguered economists, who for once got an important indicator, the consumer price index, right on the nose, after CPI fell 0.1% in December, while core Read more
Opinion: You can beg forgiveness if you forgot last year’s RMD, but not in the future
Katie St. Ores has a 100% track record of getting her tax clients out of paying the steep penalty for missing a required minimum distribution from their retirement funds. That Read more
Genesis, Winklevoss twins’ Gemini crypto venture charged by U.S. securities regulators
U.S. securities regulators on Thursday charged Genesis Global Capital LLC and Gemini Trust Company LLC for the unregistered offer and sale of securities to retail investors through the companies’ Gemini Read more
Jobless claims show no spike in layoffs
The numbers: Initial jobless claims fell by a seasonally adjusted 1,000 to 205,000 in the week ended Jan. 7, the Labor Department said Thursday. Economists polled by The Wall Street Read more
Inflation slows again at the end of 2022 and clears path for slower Fed rate hikes
The numbers: The U.S. cost of living fell 0.1% in December and posted the first decline since the onset of the pandemic in 2020, pointing to a further slowdown inflation Read more
Why Thursday’s U.S. CPI report might kill stock market’s hope of inflation melting away
Investors should not have unrealistic expectations regarding the pace at which U.S. inflation subsides in 2023, analysts argue, ahead of Thursday’s consumer price index report for December which may test Read more
Wells Fargo, once a mortgage giant, shrinks home-lending business
Wells Fargo said late Tuesday it was shrinking its home-mortgage business, aiming to serve its own bank customers as well as people in “minority communities.” Wells Fargo WFC, -0.07% also Read more
‘A year of two halves’: Stifel’s Barry Bannister expects a near-term rally in U.S. stocks — and trouble later in 2023
Trouble may be brewing in the second half of this year, but there’s a window for a stock-market rally during the first six months of 2023, in the view of Read more
18 stock picks in a ‘Goldilocks’ scenario for U.S. consumers
It may not have been a surprise to see the consumer discretionary sector of the S&P 500 get hammered last year amid talk of a looming recession while the Federal Read more