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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 Monday, April 4, 2022 “Cash is trash,” billionaire Ray Dalio told me in a chat recently (more on that below). And he may be right as it pertains to the current investing backdrop. Cash allocations are almost two times more than last year’s levels, according to new data out of Bank of America. The data looks at the average recommended allocation to… 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, March 31, 2022 The Bank of Japan (BOJ) was in a bind on Monday. Its currency, the yen, was crashing while yields on their government bonds were surging. The solution — four days of unbridled bond buying by the BOJ to stem the hemorrhaging and contain interest rates. While the gambit worked (for now), Wall Street is waking up to this… 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 Wednesday, March 30, 2022 There have been a lot of news headlines weighing on markets over the last month. But the two biggest ones are: As we prepare to flip the calendar into April, markets remain fixated on both stories. But which one remains the bigger risk? That depends on who you ask. The common talking point at the beginning of the war in… 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 Tuesday, March 22, 2022 Home prices are soaring and later this morning we will find out by how much, when the latest S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller national home price index is released. On top of exorbitant home prices, mortgage rates are on the rise — the 30-year fixed mortgage (most common among homebuyers) topped 4% earlier this month for the… 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 Monday, March 28, 2022 Almost any direction you look, it points to higher oil prices and a potentially damaging effect on the global economy — one the market will have to factor in once and for all. To be sure, the stage is set for a renewed push higher in oil prices after a momentary relief sell-off. President Biden’s “cannot remain in power”… 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, March 25, 2022 Believe it or not, the first quarter ends a week from today. That means Q1 earnings season is just around the corner. The past three months have been particularly eventful from the perspective of risk. Geopolitical angst spiked in February with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The conflict has sent global food and energy… 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 Wednesday, March 23, 2022 Investors like to look at a squiggly line known as the yield curve to measure market sentiment about the future. When the line has a neat and upward slope, investors generally go about their days without paying any mind to the line. But when the line loses its shape, the U.S. economy might, uh, tilt into a… 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 Tuesday, March 22, 2022 Today’s newsletter is by Emily McCormick, a reporter for Yahoo Finance. Follow her on Twitter When it comes to sparking a move higher in stocks, news doesn’t necessarily have to go from bad to good, or from good to great. “Very bad” to “slightly less bad” can be enough. And that reasoning offers one explanation for… 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 Monday, March 21, 2022 Today’s newsletter is by Brian Sozzi, editor-at-large and anchor at Yahoo Finance. Follow Sozzi on Twitter @BrianSozzi and on LinkedIn. Markets have rallied nicely off the early March lows that were triggered by the start of Russia’s war on Ukraine, but they are still dealing with a bout of depression. The percentage of… 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, March 17, 2022 The Federal Reserve finally took the plunge and raised rates. As expected, Fed Chair Jerome Powell led the Federal Open Market Committee to raise its benchmark interest rate target by 25 basis points. The Fed famously operates according to two mandates (actually it has three by law): price stability and maximum employment…. Source link