In the first trading day of the new year, U.S. financial markets were bogged down by the almost universal view that a recession is approaching. A stocks rally fizzled out Read more
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U.S. stocks moving higher, trying to snap four-day skid despite Bank of Japan surprise and possible recession fears
U.S. stocks are reversing a Tuesday start in the red and now trading higher as investors think through the implications of the Bank of Japan’s surprise announcement to put a Read more
Bonds head for biggest one-day rally in more than a decade after October’s downside inflation surprise
Investors cheered one of the few pieces of good news about U.S. inflation in the past year and sent Treasurys toward their biggest one-day rally in more than a decade Read more
Now’s the time to buy ‘bombed-out credit markets,’ says DoubleLine’s Jeffrey Gundlach
“We entered this year with no yields anywhere and stocks wildly overvalued versus their own metrics historically,” said Jeffrey Gundlach, CEO of DoubleLine, in an interview with CNBC on Wednesday. Read more
250 years of history is telling investors to bet on Treasury bonds in 2023, Bank of America says
Benchmark U.S. Treasury bonds are facing their worst annual returns since 1778, but a big bounce is likely in the new year, along with a stock rout. That’s according to Read more
Recent rally in Treasury bond yields could be overdone, says this chart watcher
The copper-to-gold ratio and U.S. Treasury yields have usually followed each other throughout recent history, but the widening spread between the two shows the recent rally in 10-year yields could Read more
‘They can actually derisk their portfolios’: Here’s where BlackRock is seeing iShares bond ETFs garner inflows amid climbing bond yields
Hello! In this week’s ETF Wrap, I spoke with BlackRock’s U.S. head of bond ETFs, Steve Laipply, and also caught up with Invesco’s John Hoffman, the firm’s head of ETFs Read more
Opinion: The downfall of Liz Truss — can it help your portfolio?
The British pound rose on the news that Liz Truss was standing down. (It’s now the best performing currency of the last month, if you can believe). The interest rate Read more
The U.S. dollar continues to soar: What that means for the stock market and investors
Amid all of 2022’s wild volatility, there’s one thing that investors can still count on: the soaring U.S. dollar. The ICE U.S. Dollar Index DXY, +0.68%, which measures the U.S. Read more
‘Material risk’ looms over stocks as investors face bear market’s ‘second act’
Stock-market investors have been adjusting to the jump in interest rates amid high inflation, but they have yet to cope with profit headwinds faced by the S&P 500, according to Read more