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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 Tuesday, February 8, 2022 Geopolitics are pushing oil toward $100, and that’s a problem for inflation Ukraine and OPEC have become inflation risks — of sorts. And Wall Street, preoccupied as it has become with a host of other issues like interest rates, earnings and economic growth, has yet to fully appreciate why they matter. Investors… Source link

The big guns in the auto industry are coming for Tesla’s number one spot in electric vehicles, warns one long-time auto analyst. And they could succeed in the not too distant future. “We expect Tesla’s market share to drop from about 70% in EVs to about 20% in the next three years. They [Ford and General Motors] are gaining the bulk of the market share we expect Tesla to lose,” said Bank of America auto analyst John Murphy on Yahoo Finance Live. While Tesla recently capped off an impressive… Source link

Bitcoin (BTC-USD) plunged by over 10% to below $40,000 on Friday, with the rest of the cryptocurrency market following suit as risk aversion created a downdraft for markets, ahead of the Federal Reserve’s widely telegraphed plans to raise interest rates. With Russia’s move to ban crypto assets lighting the fuse of the latest plunge, Bitcoin’s price moves have become closely linked to technology shares, which have slumped on rate hike fears. On Friday, the Nasdaq tumbled deeper into… Source link

The Biden administration’s push to reduce U.S. reliance on Chinese imports has renewed domestic efforts to produce rare earths minerals, critical to the production of electric vehicles and electronics. A new bipartisan Senate bill is aiming to accelerate that timeline, by banning defense contractors from sourcing those materials in the first place. In an interview with Yahoo Finance Live, the bill’s co-sponsor Sen. Mark Kelly (D, AZ) called Chinese rare earth minerals “a national security… Source link

U.S. markets have largely shaken off Omicron fears, witnessed by the pop in cruise line stocks Thursday despite a general market sell-off. But surging COVID-19 infections in China, beyond the early pandemic peak, are leading one strategist to warn of an underpriced risk to inflation that could weigh on stocks. At a recent Yahoo Finance Plus webinar, Bianco Research President Jim Bianco argued that China’s zero tolerance COVID policy could lead to a nationwide shutdown — causing economic… Source link

If the Federal Reserve is too heavy-handed with its interest rate hikes this year as a means to stomp out high rates of inflation, there is one critical risk that most investors probably aren’t factoring in.  Recession.  “That is the risk [of a recession in 2023],” said Mohamed El-Erian, Queens’ College, Cambridge University president and Allianz advisor, on Yahoo Finance Live. “We haven’t had a situation in the past in which the Fed has been really late [with rate hikes] and the Fed hasn’t… Source link

Crypto investors have cashed out over $135 billion dollars from the asset class so far in 2022, according to Coinmarketcap market cap data, and bitcoin (BTC-USD) is down around 7% year-to-date and hovering around $43,000 as of Thursday at 10 AM ET. “There are no signs of a decisive reversal in sight,” Mikkel Morch, executive director at digital assets hedge fund Ark36, told Yahoo Finance when asked about the largest cryptocurrency’s recent price action relative to its drawdown over the past… Source link

Market veteran Jim Bianco tells Yahoo Finance the Federal Reserve could break the back of the red-hot rally in stocks as it attempts to cool inflation with interest rate hikes.  “I think that is the number one risk right now in 2022,” the president of Bianco Research said inside of DoubeLine’s California headquarters where he will be presenting his key themes at the bond giant’s annual Roundtable Prime event. [The risk] is that the high inflation rate is perceived to be persistent, which… Source link

Major indexes are poised to end the year boosted by the “Santa Claus Rally” effect, as the market shrugs off concerns associated with surging COVID-19 case numbers across the U.S. and the world. But according to NJ-based financial services firm Hennon & Walsh, the Omicron variant remains among the top uncertainties in the market heading into the new year, regardless of whether investors are currently interpreting it as such.  “The two biggest uncertainties for investors right now clearly… Source link

Cole Beasley will miss Buffalo’s game Sunday against New England. It will likely determine which team wins the AFC East and secures the home playoff game that comes with it. The Bills receiver is on the NFL’s reserve/COVID-19 list. Since Beasley is unvaccinated, he’s unavailable for 10 days and thus will miss the clash in Foxborough between the 9-5 Patriots and the 8-6 Bills, who began the season eyeing the Super Bowl but instead could miss the postseason altogether. And as the year winds… Source link