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With inflation hitting a 40-year high and gas breaking $5 a gallon, all eyes are on the Fed ahead of Wednesday’s Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting. According to Drew Matus, chief market strategist at MetLife Investment Management, the Fed addressing inflation isn’t a matter of “if” but rather to what extent for investors. “The real question right now is: What’s going to be the cost of handling the inflation story?” Matus said on Yahoo Finance Live (video above). “I think… Source link

Investors had nowhere to hide on Monday as both the stock market and cryptocurrencies tumbled. The rout followed yet another report of high inflation on Friday that has investors concerned the Federal Reserve will continue its aggressive interest rate hikes, thereby increasing the odds of a U.S. recession. The cryptocurrency market saw its total market cap drop by roughly 12% on Monday to just $980 billion. The sector as a whole has now seen more than $2 trillion in losses since its November… Source link

Is a recession already priced into equity markets? The world-renowned economist Jeremy Siegel says it sure looks like stocks have discounted at least a “mild recession” amid this year’s downturn. On Monday, the S&P 500 officially entered bear market territory, dropping more than 3% to a level more than 20% off its January peak. And as recession predictions continue to flood in from both Wall Street and Main Street, some sectors of the market have fared even worse. The tech-heavy Nasdaq is… Source link

(Bloomberg) — Celsius Network Ltd. paused withdrawals, swaps and transfers after weeks of speculation over the sustainability of the outsized returns being offered by the DeFi lending platform, fueling a broad cryptocurrency selloff. Most Read from Bloomberg Crypto markets tumbled after the Celsius announcement, with Bitcoin dropping as much as 14% to the lowest level since December 2020 and other major tokens like Ether also falling sharply. Celsius’s CEL token was down about 50% to 19… Source link

Chinese ride-hailing giant Didi Global will start trading on the over-the-counter market (OTC) on Monday, more than two weeks after its shareholders voted to delist the company from the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) where it raised US$4.4 billion last year in a public listing that angered Beijing. That move was announced on Friday in the US by Chicago-based Options Clearing Corp, the world’s largest equity derivatives clearing house, which said the Chinese firm’s trading symbol will change… Source link

(Bloomberg) — Stanley Druckenmiller has a warning for Wall Street: The sharp decline in the stock market isn’t over just yet. Most Read from Bloomberg Story continues “My best guess is that we’re six months into a bear market,” Druckenmiller, who runs Duquesne Family Office, said Thursday at the 2022 Sohn Investment Conference. “For those tactically trading, it’s possible the first leg of that has ended. But I think it’s highly, highly probable that the bear market has a ways to… Source link

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Mortgage rates fall a third week in a row as housing market tilts in homebuyers’ favor Mortgage rates fell again this week amid relentless inflation and persistent doubt around the health of the U.S. economy. The rate drop — the third in as many weeks — was slight but still meaningful given rising home prices and generally higher borrowing costs. America’s most popular home loan — the 30-year fixed mortgage — is still significantly more expensive than it was last year. That’s… Source link

The stock market is suddenly looking up. Or is it? Equities whipsawed throughout the month of May as investors contemplated falling economic growth projections and less-than-stellar earnings forecasts from retailers. Despite the bearish news, ongoing volatility, and consistent predictions of an impending recession, the S&P 500 ended the month roughly unchanged after mounting a recovery over the last few weeks. The rebound has some on Wall Street arguing that it’s time to be opportunistic and… Source link

  U.S. stock futures advanced in pre-market trading Thursday after renewed concerns over the economy evoked a downbeat start to June. Investors look ahead to several key employment reports before markets open. Contracts on the S&P 500 rose 0.5% after a choppy previous trading day, while futures tied to the Dow added 130 points, or about 0.4%. Nasdaq futures pushed 0.6% higher. So far this holiday-shortened week, all three major indexes have logged two straight days of losses after last week’s… Source link