[unable to retrieve full-text content]Bank of America lays out the exact scenario that could finally pop the stock market’s AI bubble Yahoo Finance Source link
Read More »Tesla stock pops as worst case scenario fears subside
Tesla CEO Elon Musk sounded sleepy on the EV maker’s earnings call late Wednesday. That’s not surprising given the time needed to try to reduce debt at Twitter, appear in court, study rocket designs, and stay up late the day before the call with the Tesla AI team. Musk did his best to sound enthusiastic about Tesla’s business as he warned of a “severe” recession this year — doubling down on his recent downbeat economic rhetoric — before announcing a delay in the timeline of Cybertruck… Source link
Read More »Oil Markets Could Face A Doomsday Scenario This Week
Global oil markets are going to be very volatile in the coming months if news emerging from OPEC’s main producers about production capacity constraints turns out to be true. OPEC will be meeting again in the coming days to discuss its export agreements, while today the oil group is presenting its Annual Statistical Bulletin (ASB) 2022. While the media is likely to be focused on rumors in the next 24 hours of a possible change in the export strategy of OPEC+, the real focus should be on… Source link
Read More »The stock market’s nightmare scenario of a 50% drop is now more likely after the ‘stubborn’ Fed’s biggest rate hike in decades, hedge-fund strategist says
The Federal Reserve, led by Jerome Powell, raised interest rates earlier this month.Samuel Corum/Getty Images A “stubborn” Federal Reserve has increased the likelihood of a prolonged recession, according to Axonic Capital’s Peter Cecchini. That’s because the Fed could cause economic whiplash that leads it to cutting interest rates sooner than expected. “The 1970’s drawdown scenario of almost 50% for the S&P 500 is becoming all the more likely,” Cecchini said. The Federal Reserve’s decision to… Source link
Read More »Oil retreats after factoring ‘worst case scenario’
Oil backed off its session highs after President Biden indicated petroleum reserves could be tapped as needed and sanctions from Western countries avoided targeting Russian supplies . Sanctions from world leaders were closely monitored by analysts after Russia invaded Ukraine, sending oil surging on Thursday morning. “Oil and gas supplies from Russia as of now have not been affected at all,” Vanda Hari, founder of Vanda Insights, told Yahoo Finance Live this morning. “Will Russian oil and gas… Source link
Read More »Worst case scenario for 2022 is variant that eludes vaccine protection
Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and chief medical adviser to President Joe Biden, told Yahoo Finance that COVID-19 could become endemic in 2022 but only if certain parameters are met. If you get “a combination of enough people vaccinated and boosted together with people who are infected and recover and have a degree of immunity — hopefully they’ll wind up getting vaccinated too — and you have a virus, a variant, that has a lesser… Source link
Read More »Omarova lays out ‘scary scenario’ in crypto, gets pushback from senators in hearing
Saule Omarova, President Joe Biden’s , sketched out the possibility of “scary” scenarios emerging in cryptocurrency, but faced a mix of skepticism and agreement from senators on her views. During her appearance before the Senate Banking Committee on Thursday, Omarova — who is being vetted to be the next Comptroller of the Currency, which regulates the majority of the nation’s banks — voiced concerns that large tech companies could control the payment infrastructure in the U.S. if… Source link
Read More »Home prices could fall 47.9% in worst case scenario without government help
The Canadian Press The Latest: Fauci to resume virus updates in White House WASHINGTON — Dr. Anthony Fauci is back in the White House briefing room. Fauci, the nation’s leading infectious disease expert, was tasked by President Joe Biden to give an update on the coronavirus pandemic after largely being sidelined in recent months by former president Donald Trump. Fauci said the new administration would “be completely open and honest” in dealing with the pandemic and, in an implicit… Source link
Read More »Wall Street’s worst-case scenario for stocks in 2021
TipRanks These 2 Penny Stocks Are Poised for a Massive Rally, Say Analysts The conventional wisdom is that we’re on the cusp of another major stock market rally. 2020 has been a volatile year, with the unprecedented ‘coronavirus recession’ in February and March, followed by a bull run through the summer and fall, with increased volatility in late autumn, as investors tried to make sense of the elections and the ‘second wave’ of the virus.But that’s all in the past. The election is… Source link
Read More »Premarket stocks: The ‘Code Red’ scenario for Google
At the heart of the government’s lawsuit is a secretive deal under which Google allegedly pays billions of dollars a year to Apple to ensure that its search product is the default on iPhones and other Apple devices. Google has similar agreements with other companies, but the size of the Apple deal makes it especially crucial to the search giant. The deal: Google (GOOGL) CEO Sundar Pichai and Apple (AAPL) boss Tim Cook, met in 2018 to discuss how their companies could work together to drive… Source link
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