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With a brutal year for the stock market getting closer to a close, investors may be showing renewed interest in their investments as they look to take action into 2023. Google searches for “Dow Jones” have picked up over the last month (chart below), according to findings compiled by DataTrek Research. The Dow Jones Industrial Average is often seen as the most commonly used metric for stocks by the average U.S. household. The return of interest in the stock market. (DataTrek) DataTrek noted… Source link

This article first appeared in the Morning Brief. Get the Morning Brief sent directly to your inbox every Monday to Friday by 6:30 a.m. ET. Subscribe Thursday, September 22, 2022 Today’s newsletter is by Jared Blikre, a reporter focused on the markets on Yahoo Finance. Follow him on Twitter @SPYJared. Stocks are finally listening to Jay Powell and the Federal Reserve. In a highly anticipated move Wednesday, the Federal Reserve hiked its benchmark interest rate by 0.75 percentage points after… Source link

WASHINGTON – The Federal Reserve barreled ahead with a third straight outsize interest rate hike Wednesday in an effort to squash high inflation – but economists worry the campaign is increasingly risking a recession by next year. The Fed raised its key short-term rate by three-quarters of a percentage point to a range of 3% to 3.25%, a higher-than-normal level designed to ease inflation by slowing the economy. It also significantly bumped up its forecast for what that rate will be at… Source link

This article first appeared in the Morning Brief. Get the Morning Brief sent directly to your inbox every Monday to Friday by 6:30 a.m. ET. Subscribe Friday, September 16, 2022 Today’s newsletter is by Julie Hyman, anchor and correspondent at Yahoo Finance. Follow Julie on Twitter @juleshyman. Another day, another tumble in tech stocks. The disproportionate shellacking the sector has suffered recently has raised questions about why, exactly, technology is seemingly so vulnerable to rising… Source link

Bitcoin prices have been trading close to $20,000 at a time when search interest is relatively low. … [+] (Photo by Nicolas Economou/NurPhoto via Getty Images) NurPhoto via Getty Images Bitcoin prices dropped under $20,000 yesterday, reaching a roughly six-week low, and they have failed to recover since then. The digital currency briefly dipped below this key, psychological level early on August 27, according to TradingView data. Later that day, the cryptocurrency… Source link

Yandex (NASDAQ:YNDX – Get Rating) was the recipient of a significant drop in short interest in July. As of July 15th, there was short interest totalling 3,950,000 shares, a drop of 16.0% from the June 30th total of 4,700,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 0 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently ∞ days. Currently, 1.3% of the shares of the stock are sold short. Institutional Inflows and Outflows Several institutional investors and hedge funds… Source link

Average annual percentage rates (APR) for new credit cards have reached a record high. The average bank card borrowing rate in America in June rose to around 20%, revealing a steep increase of about 6% compared to the pre-pandemic average credit card rate of 14.87% in 2019. “Credit card interest rates are basically the highest they’ve ever been. I’ve been watching credit card rates on a monthly basis for more than a decade now. And it’s the highest that they’ve been since I’ve… Source link

NEW YORK — Los Angeles Clippers forward Nicolas Batum is declining his $3.3 million player option to hit free agency, but it is widely expected that he will re-sign a new two-year deal, league sources told Yahoo Sports. It is anticipated that the Los Angeles Lakers, Chicago Bulls, Boston Celtics, Phoenix Suns and Utah Jazz will have strong interest in trying to pry away the 14-year veteran from Clipper Land, sources said. But the Clippers are in the driver’s seat, sources said. The free… Source link

The Federal Reserve on Wednesday raised interest rates by 0.75%, the largest move it has made in a single meeting since 1994. The central bank messaged that further interest rate hikes will come this year, as the Fed leans on higher borrowing costs to dampen demand and work to slow faster-than-expected inflation. “Overall economic activity appears to have picked up after edging down in the first quarter,” the policy-setting Federal Open Market Committee said in a statement, repeating its… Source link

As big name investors such as Bill Ackman and Jeff Gundlach clamor for the Federal Reserve to hike interest rates by 100 basis points or more, one top strategist thinks observers should really think through what they are calling for. “Be careful what you wish for,” 22V Research Founder Dennis DeBusschere on Yahoo Finance Live (video above). “You want to take it to an extreme. Let’s go 100 basis points, 200 basis points, or 400 basis points. Let’s crush the economy. I don’t think that would be… Source link