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“We expect global slowdown concerns to re-emerge, which should lead to rising volatility in equity markets and, in turn, encourage higher allocations into gold and other precious metals.”
The question investors should now be asking is this: ‘Is this recent earnings trend sustainable or is it merely the product of an equity bubble?’ As the 2000 experience shows, it’s more likely to be the latter.
Fed Powell Says He's Not Trying to Boost Stocks, Comments on CoronavirusJan 29, 2020 - 12:43:42 PST
Live updates of the Federal Reserve's interest rate decision and Chair Powell's press conference.
Former US Treasury Secretary Larry Summers summed it up recently when he wrote that “the United States is one recession away” from joining Europe and Japan in “monetary black hole economics. . . interest rates stuck at zero and no prospect of escape.”
Jerome Powell, Chairman of the Federal Reserve System, will be delivering his remarks on the monetary policy outlook at a press conference following t
The FOMC concluded its two-day meeting Wednesday amid market expectations that the central bank would hold rates steady.
Americans are expected to inherit about $764 billion in 2020, and some will pay little to no tax — some critics say that should change.
The topic was the subject of back-room talks in Davos last week and continue this week in Paris at a working meeting of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. There are important reasons that this effort -- after so many false starts -- may actually deliver change.
Which Shelton will the Fed get? Gold standard advocate or Trump defender?Jan 29, 2020 - 10:03:14 PST
Fed nominee Judy Shelton has long advocated for a global currency backed by gold, which would make the Federal Reserve redundant.
The Fed is all but certain to keep interest rates steady following December forecasts that showed no change in 2020, and is expected to reinforce the signal that policy is on hold.
... More likely is that it will only reverse the policy when European banks start going bust.
Since late 2018, when Barron’s published a bullish cover story on gold investing, the metal is up more than 30%.
The policy framework reviews under way at the Fede and now the ECB are the monetary equivalent of swimming upstream: a lot of energy will be expended, but they won’t really get anywhere. The Fed and the ECB have been clear that it is not their mandates that are in question, but how to fulfil them. The prevailing strategy has been to set an explicit target for inflation.
Recent talk among major central banks on how to avoid "Japanification" stirred debate within the Bank of Japan on whether it needs to review its policy framework, a summary of opinions at January's rate review showed. The U.S. Federal Reserve and the European Central Bank have been reviewing...
WHO leaders said they're impressed with China's response, but the situation is clearly escalating...
"The end of this aggressive provision of bank reserves, however, is unlikely to create major problems for the U.S. equity market."
2019 saw US population growth at its lowest percentage level in US history aside from the pandemic years of 1918/1919 (when the Spanish flu took the lives of nearly 700,000 Americans).
The World Health Organization’s Emergency Committee will meet on Thursday, the third time in a week, to evaluate whether the new coronavirus spreading from China now constitute…
“Stock prices have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau” – Irving Fisher, New York Times September 3, 1929
“The state of housing in 2020 will depend on whether home builders bring more affordable homes to the market,”