Tag: securities
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Fed no longer foresees a U.S. recession — and other things we learned from Powell’s press conference
[ad_1] The Federal Reserve on Wednesday raised its benchmark interest rate to a range of 5.25% to 5.5%, the highest level in 22 years, in order to combat “elevated” inflation. With financial markets and economists widely expecting that rate move, the focus was on Fed Chair Jerome Powell’s one-hour session with reporters, which followed. Here…
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Billionaire owner of Tottenham football club charged with insider trading
[ad_1] U.S. prosecutors have called an offsides on the British billionaire owner of Tottenham Hotspur soccer team, charging him with a “brazen insider-trading scheme,” in which he passed secret stock tips worth millions to his girlfriends, private pilots and assistants for years. Joe Lewis, 86, who is one of the richest people in the United…
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NextPoint strikes restructuring deal to sell assets
[ad_1] NextPoint Financial NACQF, +11.36% has reached a restructuring deal to sell assets and substantially reduce its debt. The Canadian financial-services company said the agreement struck with a set of lenders calls for them to buy NextPoint’s assets for up to $281 million, consisting of a credit bid of at least $100 million in secured…
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Opinion: Fed officials were slow to fight inflation. Now they may be too easy on it.
[ad_1] Political pressures on the U.S. Federal Reserve and President Joe Biden’s economic agenda have delivered a painful blow — inflation still above the Fed’s 2% target, high interest rates and declining living standards. COVID-induced supply chain disruptions can be blamed for about half of the surge in inflation that began in early 2021. Most of the…
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Opinion: How you feel about the market matters more than the stocks and bonds you like
[ad_1] Seventy-one years ago, Harry Markowitz revolutionized how individuals and institutions invest by drawing attention away from individual security selection and focusing it on portfolio construction more broadly. To Markowitz, which stock a portfolio held mattered far less than the mix of stocks, bonds and other broad asset classes. Moreover, long-term benefits could be gained…
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Opinion: China is feeling the pinch from a weakening global economy and U.S. restrictions
[ad_1] For decades, China set a shining example of how to capitalize on globalization to accelerate domestic economic growth and development. These days, however, the country risks becoming a cautionary tale about mishandling globalization’s shift from a beneficial tailwind to a disruptive headwind. Although the Chinese economy’s recent travails have some unique characteristics, they illustrate…
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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: ‘Oppenheimer’ gives investors another reason to be bullish about nuclear energy
[ad_1] One of the hottest movies of the summer is the staggeringly good biopic “Oppenheimer,” about the man who oversaw the frantic race to develop the atomic bomb during World War II. The atom bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Japan on Aug 6, 1945 was a fission-style device. This also happens to be the same basic…
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Stock-market ‘meltup’ to continue if no recession signs, says Steve Eisman of ‘Big Short’ fame
[ad_1] “‘So far there’s no evidence of recession, and so long as there’s no evidence of recession, I believe the market will continue to melt up.”” — Steve Eisman, managing director at Neuberger Berman That’s Steve Eisman, whose bets against collateralized-debt obligations tied to the U.S. housing market catapulted him to international fame following the…