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Fade the post-earnings rally in shares of struggling electronics retailer Best Buy, Citi says. “Near-term Best Buy’s same-store sales are still some of the worst in retail with holiday volume a significant unknown,” Citi analyst Steven Zaccone wrote in a note to clients following the company’s earnings report on Tuesday morning. Best Buy stock popped 12% as the company’s earnings actually beat most Wall Street estimates. The company also managed to work its inventory down by 14% year over… Source link

Disgraced Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein is on trial for sex crimes this week in Los Angeles. The 70-year-old is already serving a 23-year prison sentence after a jury convicted him of rape in New York, and reportedly at least 100 women have accused him of rape or sexual assault. On a recent episode of “Influencers with Andy Serwer,” the New Yorker staff writer Ken Auletta compared Weinstein to another “evil” yet talented person he profiled — the late Roy Cohn, a key figure during the Red… Source link

Disgraced Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein is on trial for sex crimes this week in Los Angeles. The 70-year-old is already serving a 23-year prison sentence after a jury convicted him of rape in New York, and reportedly at least 100 women have accused him of rape or sexual assault. On a recent episode of “Influencers with Andy Serwer,” the New Yorker staff writer Ken Auletta compared Weinstein to another “evil” yet talented person he profiled — the late Roy Cohn, a key figure during the Red… Source link

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) downgraded its outlook for the global economy next year based on the effects of the war in Ukraine, global inflation that requires interest rate hikes and a slowdown in China. “In short, the worst is yet to come, and for many people 2023 will feel like a recession,” IMF Chief Economist Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas stated. The IMF, which is the primary financial institution of the United Nations, now forecasts global growth will slow next year by 2.7% —… Source link

Chinese President Xi Jinping.Kevin Frayer/Getty Images Reuters reported that China told state-owned banks to get ready to sell dollars and buy yuan in an effort to prop up the local currency. The move could stem the yuan’s fall, as it remains on track for its largest annual loss against the dollar since 1994. A hawkish Fed has pushed the dollar to 20-year highs this year, pressuring currencies around the world. The People’s Bank of China has told major state-run banks to prepare to shed dollar… Source link

In Tom Wolfe’s famous essay about the 1970s, “The Me Decade,” he wrote about how Americans had abandoned communal thinking in favor of personal wealth. “They took their money and ran,” he wrote. In fact, there wasn’t much money to take. Today, with the stock market in meltdown mode, it’s natural to look back at other times of financial woe: The Great Recession of 2008-2009. The bursting tech bubble in 2000. The crash of 1987, never mind 1929 — and all manner of mini-downturns and… Source link

Warren Buffett recommends low-cost index funds for most people — but BofA says the S&P 500 is the ‘worst thing to hold’ right now. Buy these 4 top sectors to avoid confusion Warren Buffett likes index funds — particularly those that follow the S&P 500. “In my view, for most people, the best thing is to do is owning the S&P 500 index fund,” he once said. Don’t miss But that strategy may not be optimal in the current market environment according to Bank of America’s head of U.S…. Source link

Housing affordability hasn’t been this bad since Ronald Reagan was president. It now takes 35.51% of the median household income to make a principal and interest payment on the median home with 20% down, according to figures mortgage technology and data provider Black Knight shared with Yahoo Money. That’s the highest payment-to-income ratio since October 1985 when it took 36.01% of household income to make that payment. Just in January, that ratio was 24.61%, below the long-term average… Source link

Buyer beware: You may want to think carefully about that home purchase now, according to one expert. “From an affordability perspective, this might be the worst time you could buy because mortgage rates have spiked quite a bit,” Chistopher Mayer, co-director of the Paul Milstein Center for Real Estate and professor at Columbia University, told Yahoo Finance Live (video above). Mortgage rates have jumped by more than 2 percentage points since the start of the year, according to Freddie… Source link

MEMPHIS, Tenn. – Ryan Palmer could feel Cam Smith’s footsteps approaching from behind the microphone. After an entire round playing together, he wanted to get in one last shot. “That’s what I love about what we do out here, there’s always somewhere to go up and there’s always something to play for,” Palmer said, intentionally framing a question about the BMW Championship within the larger narrative that has consumed golf this season, a narrative in which Smith has become a… Source link