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The Federal Reserve announced that it would raise its benchmark Federal Funds Rate target range to between 0.25% and 0.50% last Wednesday in a long-awaited move seeking to combat decades-high inflation. The move is long overdue, Marketgauge.com Partner and Director of Trading Research & Education Michele Schneider told Yahoo Finance Live in a recent segment. “I think it should have happened already, quite honestly,” she said. “I think they should have been less concerned [with market… Source link

Returns from stocks and bonds are likely to suffer in the long-term, CEO and CIO of Research Affiliates Chris Brightman told Yahoo Finance Live. “[Investors should expect] not just lower long-term returns from the bond market but lower long-term returns from the stock market as well,” Brightman told Yahoo Finance Live. “Remember, the stock market’s trading at near all-time highs in terms of prices relative to, say, cyclically adjusted earnings or extraordinarily low dividend yields. And… Source link

The Federal Reserve entering an interest-rate hiking cycle will have ramifications for the U.S. economy over time, stresses former Fed economist Vincent Reinhart. “Mortgages will be a little more expensive. You may see some increases in loan rates. It will be harder to buy a car on credit. That is the slowing,” Reinhart, who is now chief economist at Dreyfus and Mellon, said on Yahoo Finance Live. One could officially start the clock on these things happening. The Fed widely delivered its first… Source link

The Federal Reserve on Wednesday raised short-term interest rates for the first time since 2018, as high inflation pushes the central bank to pull back on its extraordinary pandemic-era support. The U.S. central bank lifted its benchmark Federal Funds Rate by 0.25%, to a target range of between 0.25% and 0.50%. The Fed also noted that the economic outlook remains “highly uncertain” in the face of the war in Ukraine. By notching up rates, the Fed kicks off a process of raising borrowing… Source link

European stocks rose as all eyes are firmly focused on the Federal Reserve meeting later today – the first in four years, where an interest rate hike is expected. Photo: Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty European stocks pushed higher on Wednesday as investors awaited a widely anticipated decision by the US Federal Reserve on interest rate policy. In London, the FTSE 100 (^FTSE) rose 1.3% after opening, while the CAC (^FCHI) gained 2.1% in Paris, and the Frankfurt DAX (^GDAXI) was 2%… Source link

January again saw inflation levels not seen in decades, with surging CPI expected once more for February. Among the areas getting hit the hardest by inflation is childcare. According to survey data released by UrbanSitter, 2021 saw babysitting rates jump nationwide. “There was an 11% increase in babysitting rates over the past year, outpacing inflation at 7%,” UrbanSitter’s report reads. “Given that rates rose just 3.9% from 2019 to 2020, this is a big increase. If you’re looking for a… Source link

The Federal Reserve is unlikely to back off raising interest rates starting at its March meeting as it wrestles with trying to fight red-hot inflation against the backdrop of Russia invading Ukraine. “The current situation is different from past episodes when geopolitical events led the Fed to delay tightening or ease because inflation risk has created a stronger and more urgent reason for the Fed to tighten today than existed in past episodes,” said Goldman Sachs Chief Economist Jan Hatzius… 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, January 24, 2022 Memo to investors: Don’t buy flaming piles of garbage right now.  Those flaming piles of garbage could be the five software stocks (of companies losing money and valued at 85 times forward earnings) on your watchlist that have on average lost 25% in the past four weeks as a result of Federal Reserve rate hike fears (and… Source link

Interactive Brokers founder Thomas Peterffy says he is worried about the higher interest rates coming soon from a Federal Reserve behind the curve on inflation.  “I am worried about high interest rates because the Fed is talking about raising rates to 1% or even 2%. Inflation is 7% — 1% or 2% doesn’t mean anything. If they really wanted to stop inflation, they would have to raise rates to 4%, 5%, 6%,” Peterffy said on Yahoo Finance Live. Peterffy thinks the Fed wouldn’t go that high on… Source link

With the Federal Reserve now widely expected to jack up interest rates in March to beat back rampant inflation, investors in the stock market should buckle up for a more muted few months of returns, says Goldman Sachs chief U.S. equity strategist David Kostin.  The S&P 500 has been “resilient” around the start of Fed hiking cycles in the past, Kostin notes. But one could interpret that resiliency Kostin speaks of in different ways.  The first is that the stock market didn’t fall off a cliff… Source link