Before Friday's sharp drop, the S&P 500 had been heading for a week of almost zero movement. Helping to lift stocks had been a steady parade of better-than-expected profit reports. That worked against worries about stubbornly high inflation, which could prevent the Federal Reserve from deli...
Inflation is common, with rates varying over time. However, Inflation has been particularly high in the years following massive government fiscal stimulus during the COVID pandemic, which resulted in an 8% inflation rate in 2022, the highest rate since 1981. Inflation is now coming down, but i...
President Donald Trump is set to gamble the success of his second term, the economy and the personal finances of millions of Americans this week on his long-held belief that tariffs can re-create a golden age of US wealth and independence. ...
The News Behind The Dow’s Big Day. The Dow Jones Industrial Average (INDEX: ^DJI) had a pretty boring month -- until today. The index rocketed higher out of the gate, and rose more than 200 points for the day on the news that a new bond buying program by the ECB will gobble ...
Daniel Nadler
Most Lego bricks are made of a plastic called Acrylonitrile Butadiene Styrene, or ABS for short. It's a tough thermoplastic, which is to say one of those plastics you can melt down and form back into other shapes again, and it's brilliant at doing all the ...
CEOs rank the failure to attract and retain talent as their top concern this year. We increasingly find the allocation of people is just as important as the allocation of capital.
The yield on the 10-year Treasury Tuesday was 0.88% compared with 2.5% in January 2017. SO THIS MEANS MY 401K IS DOING BETTER? Probably, but not because the Dow is at 30,000. For most 401(k) accounts, what matters much more is how the S&P 500 is performing. That’s because ...
Free Today: Profiting from The Future’s Brightest Energy Source The demand for electricity is growing exponentially. At the same time, we’re working to reduce our dependence on fossil fuels like oil and natural gas. Nuclear energy is an ideal replacement. ...
Moody's (MCO) is technically in oversold territory now, so the heavy selling pressure might have exhausted. This along with strong agreement among Wall Street analysts in raising earnings estimates could lead to a trend reversal for the stock.