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Gold prices jumped over 1% on Thursday, as record high U.S. jobless claims for a second week in a row intensified fears of economic damage due to the coronavirus and drove investors towards the safe-haven metal.
The Fed took a step to avoid crowding out some commercial bank lending with its exploding balance sheet. It may eventually have to do more.
Join Mike Maloney for this Special Update, in which he details some shocking data that just arrived from the government. These figures signal a new paradigm for the USA - we were in uncharted territory to begin with, but now it seems we may have left the edge of the map. Thank you as always for watching and sharing this most important update.
CNBC's "Power Lunch" team breaks down how markets are trading after record weekly jobless claims amid the coronavirus pandemic with David Rosenberg of Rosenberg Research.
Minneapolis Federal Reserve President Neel Kashkari, who helped guide the U.S. economy out of its last crisis, said Thursday that policymakers need to be less selective this time when deciding whom to help.
The first Americans to get relief payments from the government won't see checks til mid-April and many will have to wait longer.
Mortgage Lenders Bracing for the Biggest Wave of Delinquencies in HistoryApr 2, 2020 - 12:14:03 PDT
“This is an unprecedented event,” said Susan Wachter, professor of real estate and finance at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. “The great financial crisis happened over a number of years. This is happening in a matter of months -- a matter of weeks.”
Sam Stovall, chief investment strategist at CFRA, joins "Squawk Box" to discuss why he says that the bear market could become a "mega-meltdown."
A U-shaped recovery is likely to follow a “severe contraction” he said, as the U.S. consumer could be slow to recover.
Over the last few weeks, the Fed has been in utter desperation mode to try to revive and keep the American economy on life support. What many in the mainstream media have failed to include in this recent coronavirus economic narrative is that the virus was just the pin of one the biggest bubbles …
Investors now need to make a decision; stay in the roller coaster or get out?
Bond investors are beginning to absorb a mushrooming supply of Treasury securities issued to pay for the new coronavirus stimulus plan, but how seamlessly the new debt is digested may depend on whether it is short or longer-term.
Junk bonds still face 'numerous fundamental headwinds' despite unprecedented aid from the Federal Reserve, Goldman Sachs said Thursday. Spreads ...
“What I believe in this point is hard assets and alternative assets…physical gold, physical silver, some bitcoin and then some survival-type investments…homestead out the country, ranch, farmland,” he says.
Not only can it act as an effective diversifier in normal times, there are not-so-normal times when not owning gold can be dangerous to your wealth.
As drawdowns have a disproportionate impact on long-term performance, it does make sense in asset allocation to add a negative expected return stream because of its negative correlation during crises.
Between reduced tax revenues and increased spending, I now expect this year’s deficit will be at least $4 trillion.
U.S. companies have never had so much debt on their books as they do now. As of the fourth quarter of 2019, non-financial firms owed some $9.6 trillion in outstanding debt, a figure that’s up more than 57 percent from the financial crisis 10 years earlier...
Any money the government (via the Fed) prints to pay for a bill will stay in the banking system as reserves forever, expanding monetary base, bank lending, and money supply.
Bank of America slashed its S&P 500 forecast to the lowest on Wall Street as the bank now expects the coronavirus pandemic to tip the U.S. economy into the deepest recession in the post-war era.