Growth in U.S. prices is expected to ease in the year ahead, contacts surveyed in the Federal Reserve’s latest Beige Book said. “Selling prices increased at a modest or moderate pace in most districts, though many said that the pace of increases had slowed from that of recent reporting periods,” the Fed said Wednesday in
The United States producer price index (PPI) fell 0.5% for the month, which was much more than the 0.1% decline estimated by economists surveyed by Dow Jones. The largest monthly decline since April 2020 was also aided by a sharp drop in energy prices. Another report showed that the retail sales data dropped 1.1% in
Dollar banknotes. Simpleimages | Moment | Getty Images Investor cash holdings are near record highs, and that could be good news for stocks since there is a wall of money ready to come right back into the market. But the question is this: Will those investors return any time soon, especially with sentiment still so
Ethereum (ETH) price is struggling to overcome resistance at $1,600 and this is the altcoin’s third attempt since September 2022. Some would say the 33% year-to-date rally could be interpreted as a failed opportunity to breach the $200 billion market capitalization mark. If Ethereum price were to break above $1,600, it would return Ether to
In his movie “Annie Hall,” Woody Allen recounts an old joke in which one woman asks another about a restaurant, and the other woman says “nobody goes there anymore; it’s too crowded.” In a similar way, some real estate investors are pausing their built-for-rent (”BFR” or “BTR”) projects, because they fear that it is about
Ed Jones | Afp | Getty Images Between rents rising and most pandemic-era eviction bans having expired, the number of tenants coming home to find notices on their doors is picking up. In just the first week of January, the Eviction Lab at Princeton University has counted more than 9,300 evictions in the nine states
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Beefed up disclosure and the resulting transparency promised by the contentious Financial Data Transparency Act is seen as necessary medicine by one of the industry’s big three credit rating agencies. “We think improved disclosures are beneficial for rating analysis and for the market,” said Jenny Poree, a senior director and sector lead for utilities at
The stress for investors is not yet over after stock markets cleared out the “crap” that built up after the outbreak of Covid-19, with a long period of drab returns still lying ahead, the chief executive of Norway’s sovereign wealth fund has warned. US inflation could be poised to reaccelerate before this summer, in part
Research shows that Dogecoin (DOGE) was the only memecoin in 2022 to proactively reduce its carbon footprint — a key metric for mainstream adoption — by 25% in one year, thanks to the intervention of developers and Tesla CEO Elon Musk. One of the main reasons why Musk backtracked on accepting Bitcoin (BTC) payments for
Chicago’s Sales Tax Securitization Corp. will take retail orders Wednesday on a long-planned issue that prioritizes local buyers on the city’s first bonds to carry a social bond designation and gives special consideration for environmental, social, and governance investors. The STSC offers $305.3 million of tax-exempt paper in three series — including $98 million of
Economists at the Bank of International Settlements (BIS) have recommended three policies regulators worldwide could adopt in order to deal with the risks posed by cryptocurrencies. “Authorities can now consider a variety of policy approaches and at the same time work to improve the existing monetary system in the public interest,” they advised. BIS Economists
Brendan McDermid | Reuters Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading. Goldman Sachs — Shares of the Wall Street investment bank shed more than 6% after it reported its worst earnings miss in a decade. Goldman Sachs missed analysts’ estimates on both the top and bottom lines, with loan loss provisions coming in
In this article MS Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Morgan Stanley Chairman and Chief Executive James Gorman speaks during the Institute of International Finance Annual Meeting in Washington, October 10, 2014. Joshua Roberts | Reuters Morgan Stanley CEO James Gorman said he’s more confident on the markets than the rest of Wall Street, seeing
A lavish New York townhouse once owned by the late Ivana Trump is on the market for $26.5 million. Purchased for $2.5 million soon after her divorce from Donald Trump, the six-story, 8,725-square-foot home reflects Ivana’s big personality, her whimsical style and her passion for interior design with gold leaf, crystal chandeliers, pink marble and
home is being built in in Rio Verde Foothills, Arizona, U.S. on January 7, 2023. The Washington Post | Getty Images Developers planning to build homes in the desert west of Phoenix don’t have enough groundwater supplies to move forward with their plans, a state modeling report found. Plans to construct homes west of the
The VIX is known as the fear index because it is based on the amount of puts that are purchased. Why? -The more puts that are purchased on the SP500, the higher the VIX -When puts are high that means people are buying protection -They think the market is going down High v. Low VIX
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2022 was either a year to forget or a year to remember for a very long time, depending on your perspective. On one side, investors would want to erase from their memory last year’s historically poor market performance, the weakest in decades. Institutional investors would bemoan the massive fund outflows all year long. On the
Goldman Sachs’ profits plunged by two-thirds last quarter, missing expectations and capping a grim year that has forced the bank to embark on its biggest cost-cutting exercise since the financial crisis. It was the Wall Street bank’s fifth straight quarter of falling profits and Goldman has already moved to cut more than 3,000 jobs, slash