Tag: finance
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Stock market strategist David Rosenberg gives the Fed no credit — and no mercy
[ad_1] It’s said that you don’t know an economy is in a recession until it’s in one. Or as David Rosenberg puts it: “Recessions are like an odorless gas. They sneak up on you.” These days, Rosenberg is looking for fresh air. A former chief North American economist at Merrill Lynch and now president of…
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Opinion: Ukraine’s membership in NATO is needed to keep critical technology from China
[ad_1] The future of Ukraine in the NATO alliance will prove critical to the balance of power in the Pacific and U.S. economic leadership around the world. Tensions within NATO on the embattled nation’s status were on full display at the Vilnius Summit last week. On the agenda was Ukrainian membership, an issue sidestepped by the United States,…
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These money and investing tips keep you up to speed with the market
[ad_1] Don’t miss these top money and investing features: Sign up here to get MarketWatch’s best mutual funds and ETF stories emailed to you weekly! INVESTING NEWS & TRENDS Beating the 4% rule in retirement has become even easier The potential of a ladder of individual TIPS. Read More As S&P 500 hits 2023 highs, it’s…
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Opinion: The Fed’s mission impossible: Drive the economy from the back seat
[ad_1] The U.S. Federal Reserve is talking up rate-hike expectations even when inflation and threats to inflation are slowing markedly. Investors should recognize that the Fed has a poor forecasting record and officials are likely to relent on their hawkish rhetoric as inflation subsides. In 2013, then-president of the Minneapolis Fed, Naryana Kocherlakota, used a pithy…
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Opinion: Homeowners desperately need easier and better mortgage refinancing tools
[ad_1] It’s certainly a bad time to refinance your mortgage. Rates for 30-year-mortgages are the highest they’ve been in decades. But not too long ago, during the 2020 pandemic, rates dropped to below 3%, and it was a good time to refinance. About $14 trillion of outstanding mortgages were refinanced then. Lenders did well and…
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Opinion: Americans may have to start working younger and retire older.
[ad_1] “The demographic clock is ticking for the West.” China announced earlier this year that for the first time since the 1960s, deaths outnumbered births and its population slipped in 2022 by 850,000 to 1.41 billion. COVID-19 brought this event forward a few years. More fundamentally, the legacy of China’s now-abandoned one-child policy and the high cost of…
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Opinion: How NFL star Austin Ekeler brings his ‘A’ game to personal finance
[ad_1] I think about money through the same lens that I think about everything else. It starts with hard work, discipline, and applying yourself in whatever you choose to do so that you are able to build value in yourself and in what you bring to an organization. That value in turn creates opportunities personally…
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These money and investing tips can put a floor under the debt-ceiling crisis
[ad_1] Don’t miss these top money and investing features: Sign up here to get MarketWatch’s best mutual funds and ETF stories emailed to you weekly! INVESTING NEWS & TRENDS How we know that economic risk is high right now Introducing an objective way of measuring economic uncertainty and risk. Read More ‘Putting the Treasury on the…
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Opinion: Commercial real estate faces a ‘perfect storm’ — and loans are coming due
[ad_1] “ Tight lending conditions and loans refinanced at higher, unsustainable rates could potentially stifle construction and development. ” As the U.S. emerges from the COVID-19 pandemic, much attention has been given to rising inflation and the interest-rate hikes to combat it. But there is another looming threat with equally impactful and widespread implications for…
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This one radical change to your stock research will completely upend the results
[ad_1] You can significantly improve your investment performance by expanding your definition of corporate profitability. New research finds that Wall Street has been using a restricted definition of return on equity. As a result, individual investors and professionals both have unwittingly been shunning the stocks of companies that in fact are highly profitable while favoring…