Illustration by Risto Avramovski Text size About the Author: Pierre Cramer is Senior Managing Director and Senior Portfolio Manager, Insurance Asset Management at SLC management. This comment reflects his personal opinions. The trajectory of risky assets in 2023 depends on how far the Federal Reserve is willing to go with its interest rate hikes to …
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Investors, like children on Christmas Eve, expect Santa Claus to come down the chimney, walk to Wall Street and deliver the rewarding gift of a stock market rally. This year, however, investors might be better off betting on a lump of coal, rather than waiting for tangible stock market gains to emerge this holiday season, …
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Is it a good time to get a good mortgage interest rate? Google Street View Suddenly, mortgage interest rates are falling. Then they are standing. What is a consumer supposed to do? Watch and probably wait. “This is still a time of extremely high volatility, so rates can go up and down quickly on short …
As mortgage rates fluctuate, is now the best time to get a good rate? Read More »
Friday’s jobs report showed that the booming US economy is creating hundreds of thousands of jobs, suggesting rising prices are here to stay despite the Federal Reserve’s efforts to contain them. The United States added 263,000 jobs in November, according to the federal jobs report released Friday, well above the 200,000 job gains expected by …
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About the Author: Joe Sullivan is a Senior Advisor to the Lindsey Group. He served from 2017 to 2019 as Special Advisor to the Chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers. His opinions do not necessarily represent those of his employer. Federal Reserve Vice Chairman Lael Brainard spotted something “very unusual” in the …
The US labor market is leaning toward scarcity. The Fed cannot change that. Read More »
Corporate profits in the non-financial sector hit a record high of $2.08 trillion in the third quarter, even as inflation, at a 40-year high, continues to weigh on US consumers. Inventory and capital consumption-adjusted profits rose $6.1 billion between the fiscal second and third quarters, the Commerce Department reported Wednesday, continuing a meteoric recovery from …
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