What Does Inflation Do to the Stock Market?
Inflation can be good or bad for the stock market, but in general high inflation is very bad news The relationship between inflation and equity prices is complex. When inflation…
Inflation rises at fastest pace in 40 years, pushed up by record gas prices
The pain of higher prices continues for US consumers. Record gas prices drove inflation to 8.6% for the 12 months ending in May, higher than the pace in April, according…
How oil holds the key to whether the stock market has bottomed
Oil acting as a tax and historically correlates well with recessions, pulling sentiment and consumption down Gina Sanchez asserted on CNBC today that stock market has mostly priced in Fed…
The European Central Bank Just Helped U.S. Stock Investors
The biggest companies in the market could benefit the most. Investors on Wall Street came in Thursday morning in a downbeat mood, and the stock market seemed to reflect the…
It’s 1979, Not 2009
Break out your mom’s bell-bottoms and dad’s leisure suit from your parents’ attic. It’s 1979 again (at least economically) Don’t listen to the perpetual doomsayers who claim this is the…
Recession Ahead – Right After This New Bull Stock Market
Wall Street looks 6+ months ahead, and it likes what it sees. The proof is in the stock market’s behavior: A choppy, rising foundation-build. Why choppy? Because we are in…
National average rises as cost of oil and gas demand increase
Since Monday, the national average for a gallon of regular gasoline has increased by nine cents to $4.71. According to new data from the Energy Information Administration (EIA), total domestic…
Fed’s Mester says inflation hasn’t peaked and multiple half-point rate hikes are needed
The Federal Reserve needs to raise rates by a half-of-a-percentage point at each of its next two meetings, and then assess if inflation has moderated enough to slow the pace…