U.S. Economy

Hawkish Comments from Fed's Powell Send Dow, Nasdaq, S&P 500 Sharply Lower

Hawkish comments from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell sparked Wall Street selling on Tuesday, as hopes further dimmed that the central bank would be able to halt its interest rate hiking in the near future.

U.S. Economy

60% of Americans Live Paycheck to Paycheck — ‘Inflation is Part of Their Everyday Lives,’ Experts Say

As of January, 60% of all U.S. adults, including 45% of high-income earners, were living paycheck to paycheck, according to a new LendingClub report.

U.S. Economy

California Faces Blizzard Threat as Winter Storm Causes Outages across U.S.

As rare blizzard warnings were issued for the Southern California mountains, combined outages due to ice, high winds and heavy snow across the U.S. left more than 800,000 customers without power as of early Friday February 24.

U.S. Economy

Inflation Cooled Just Slightly, With Worrying Details

Inflation has slowed from its painful 2022 peak but remains uncomfortably rapid, data released Tuesday showed, and the forces pushing prices higher are proving stubborn in ways that could make it difficult to wrestle cost increases back to the Federal Reserve’s goal.

Investing Ideas

S&P Global: Strong Hints at Impending Stock Price Recovery

S&P Global (NYSE:SPGI) has been one of the best compounders in the past decade, with its share price up over 750% during the period, comfortably beating the return of the S&P 500 index.

U.S. Economy

Goldman Sachs Cuts U.S. Recession Odds to 25% on Strong Labor Market

After calling for a recession during the first half of last year and then for much of the latter half saying one was likely in 2023,

International

Economists Project China GDP to Record over 6 Percent Growth at Most in 2023, Injecting Impetus into Global Economic Recovery

International organizations and investment banks intensively raised their projections for China's economic growth in 2023 following impressive recovery of the country's consumption market during the Spring Festival holidays.

U.S. Economy

Wall Street to Jerome Powell: We don’t Believe You

Powell and his fellow Fed committee members yesterday hiked short-term interest rates another 0.25 percentage points to 4.75%, which means retirees and other savers are getting the best savings rates in a generation.

Investing Ideas

Chinese Search Giant Baidu to Launch ChatGPT-Style Bot

Baidu Inc. (BUDU) is planning to roll out an artificial intelligence chatbot service similar to OpenAI’s ChatGPT,

U.S. Economy

U.S. Economic Growth Stronger than Expected, but Not by Much

The U.S. economy fared better than expected at the end of last year, despite higher borrowing costs and the rising cost of living weighing on activity.

International

China’s Reopening Comes With a $720 Billion Inflation Bomb

In China, the reopening of the economy is coming at a time when its central bank is in easing mode – potentially making it all the more inflationary.

U.S. Economy

U.S. Economy Losing Momentum As Retail Sales Post Biggest Drop In 12 Months

U.S. retail sales fell by the most in a year in December, pulled down by declines in purchases of motor vehicles and a range of other goods, putting consumer spending and the overall economy on a weaker growth path heading into 2023.

International

China's Population is Shrinking. The Impact Will be Felt around the World

China may be one step closer to losing its place as the world's most populous country to India after its population shrank for the first time since the 1960s.