Many technology stocks have gotten crushed in the high-inflation, rising-interest-rate environment of 2022. Some may have further to fall. Investors with shorter-term horizons may wish to steer clear of more volatile, innovative companies, despite outperformance during the pandemic. Those include …
On April 13, Tesla CEO Elon Musk offered to buy Twitter TWTR for $54.20 a share. Twitter’s stock closed at $45.08 (17% below Musk’s takeout offer price) on April 14, making it clear that many investors believe the deal won’t …
High-quality bonds should hold up better than stocks, right? Particularly if defaults aren’t really the worry. But that hasn’t been the case lately for debt issued by many Fortune 500 companies, a sector hit notably hard since the Federal Reserve …
Fintech companies like Rocket Mortgage RKT, +0.89% and loanDepot Inc. LDI, +1.93% have become powerhouses in the U.S. mortgage market in recent years, deploying user-friendly technology to entice younger homebuyers to borrow with them rather than traditional banks. These tech-first …
U.S. stocks ended modestly lower Tuesday, erasing earlier gains, as investors questioned whether the sharpest rise in the consumer price index in more than 40 years marks peak inflation. What happened The Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA fell 87.72 points, …
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. –Want to lock in a greater-than-8% return with U.S. Treasurys over the next 12 months? Of course you would, especially given the higher-than-expected inflation numbers reported this week, with the Consumer Price Index rising 8.5% over the …
With demand for housing in the U.S. still going strong, the prospect of moving may be daunting. Jacob Passy writes The Big Move column. This week he helps a couple that wants to switch to a home without stairs, but …
Treasury yields carved out another round of three-year highs on Friday, with the 2-year rate posting its biggest five-week gain in more than a decade, as investors continued to assess the Federal Reserve’s likely policy path. What are yields doing? …
The Federal Reserve signaled its plans to increase a key U.S. interest rate by 1/2 percentage point steps at upcoming meetings if inflation remains high or gets even worse, according to minutes of the central bank’s last strategy session in …
Groceries, gasoline and housing prices have shot higher in recent months, squeezing household budgets and grabbing the attention of U.S. central bankers looking to tamp down a four-decade-high inflation rate. How high do mortgage rates need to rise before it’s …
Federal Reserve officials will look at whether to take a more aggressive half-a-percentage point hike in their benchmark interest rates at the next meeting in early May, said Kansas City Fed President Esther George, on Tuesday. “I think 50 basis …
The U.S. home-financing market has been dominated by the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage loan for decades. Now some key players in the U.S. housing market think it is time to give home buyers the option of stretching loans out to 40 …
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