Households struggle to come up with emergency funds
Torsten Slok, chief economist at Apollo Global Management, highlighted the chart above in a Thursday note. It illustrates ...
Individual investors are still pretty bearish: survey
American Association of Individual Investors survey shows, perhaps unsurprisingly, that respondents still feel pretty bearish ...
Treasury yields fall this week as tariff worries weigh on growth outlook
Treasury yields have declined this week, adding to their drop so far in 2025, amid worries that tariffs risk slowing economic growth. The yield on the 10-year Treasury note fell 5.7 basis points this ...
Equal-weight S&P 500 struggles Friday as it heads for back-to-back declines
An equal-weighted version of the S&P 500 was dropping Friday afternoon, heading for back-to-back losses as most sectors struggled. The Invesco S&P 500 Equal Weight ETF, an exchange-traded fund that ...
‘Multifaceted’ rationale for gold’s gains persists post-Fed meeting, and metal climbs to fresh highs
With the “rationale for higher gold prices remaining the same, the uptrend quickly reset” following Wednesday’s Federal ...
These are the worst-performing S&P sectors as U.S. stocks fall midday
U.S. stocks were falling midday Friday, with all sectors in the S&P 500 trading in the red. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was falling almost 287 points, or 0.7%, to around 41,667. The S&P 500 was ...
Top Fed officials say tariff uncertainty is hurting the economy, but it's not 'stagflation'
A pair of senior Federal Reserve officials said President Donald Trump's tariff strategy is robbing the economy of some of its momentum and could usher in a prolonged period of uncertainty. "My ...
S&P 500, Nasdaq head for longest streak of weekly losses since May 2022
Stocks have pared some of their morning losses. But all three major U.S. equity indexes have remained on track to finish lower on Friday. If the S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite finish at or around recent ...
Dollar still 'exceptional' due to capital inflows to U.S. assets: Standard Chartered
The dollar is likely to strengthen as 2025 progresses, helped by the attractiveness of the U.S. economy and its ability to keep drawing capital inflows from elsewhere in the world, said Standard ...
Junk bond ETFs fall Friday, on pace for back-to-back losses
Junk bonds were under pressure on Friday, as investors appeared to have a risk-off mentality in morning trade that dented gains booked earlier this week on the back of the Federal Reserve’s policy ...
Fed officials to stand by lower-growth, higher-inflation theme: Macquarie
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell came out with a transitory view of tariff-driven inflation. But one strategist isn't expecting other policy makers to seem quite so benign in their outlook as ...
Stocks open lower as S&P 500 wipes out weekly advance
U.S. stocks opened lower on Friday, as the S&P 500 wiped out its gains from earlier in the week. If the index finishes at or around its opening levels, it would mark a fifth-straight week in the red ...