Fed Shift Is Major Stock Market RiskStock-Markets / Stock Markets 2015Jun 19, 2015 – 05:43 PM GMTBy: Zeal_LLCThe US stock markets were quick to rally after the Federal Reserve did nothing at its policy meeting this week. Traders love the endless dovishness gushing forth from this Yellen Fed. But their complacency is very misplaced. It was epic Fed easing that […]
Benchmarks gained around 1% on Thursday after the Federal Reserve hinted that it will move slowly on raising interest rates. A majority of Fed officials had said on Wednesday that the economy is ready for a rate hike this year. Only 2 out of the 17 officials believe the central bank should not raise rates before next year. Meanwhile, consumer […]
Concerns over Greece’s latest effort to avoid a default weighed on U.S. financial markets Monday.The Dow Jones industrial average slipped 107.67 points, or 0.6 percent, to 17,791.17. The Standard & Poor’s 500 index slid 9.68 points, or 0.5 percent, to 2,084.43. The Nasdaq composite lost 21.13 points, or 0.4 percent, to 5,029.97.Monday’s slide got started early after weekend negotiations between […]
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In the post-financial-crisis era, a lot of stock-market watchers have attributed the market’s gains to the Federal Reserve’s ultra-easy monetary policy.And these folks had some evidence. They observed that whenever the Fed discontinued a quantitative-easing (QE) program, volatility would spike and stock prices would fall. QE involved the monthly purchases of billions of dollars worth of bonds, an effort […]
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Wikimedia CommonsIt’s about to be a lose-lose situation for stock market investors. In a note to clients on Tuesday, Bank of America’s Michael Hartnett wrote that with the Fed set to raise rates and the US economy underperforming, we could be be facing a tough period for investors this year. Hartnett writes:We have been urging caution. No […]
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At a recent International Monetary Fund event in Washington, D.C., Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen opined about the “potential dangers” posed by “quite high” stock market valuations. This was not her first market prognostication. In July 2014 she singled out biotech and social-media stocks as having “substantially stretched” valuations. Such comments are ill considered […]
REUTERS/Brendan McDermidByron Wien.Stocks have catapulted through recovery.Among the things that have driven the expansion, a key factor has been the role of the Federal Reserve.In market commentary Wednesday, Blackstone’s Byron Wien pegs a number on this: $3 trillion.Even though we’ve seen company earnings more than double between 2009 and 2014, there has been concern that the market rally has largely […]
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A brief afternoon rally faded away on Wall Street, leaving indexes narrowly mixed on the day.The short-lived advance Wednesday came after minutes from the Federal Reserve’s latest meeting suggested the central bank wouldn’t begin raising interest rates next month.The Dow Jones industrial average slipped 27 points, or 0.2 percent, to 18,285.
The Standard & Poor’s 500 index gave up […]
London shares suffered a sharp sell-off on Thursday morning as voting got under way in the closest general election for decades.Fears that Britain is set for a second successive hung parliament added to a global markets sell-off after Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen warned share valuations could be dangerously high.The leading FTSE 100 index tumbled by 121 points, or 1.7%, […]
April 30 Market Close: GovCon Index Plunges 2%, Biotech Losses Send Stocks DownRoss Wilkers April 30, 2015 Financial Report, News 49 ViewsThe GovCon Index capped the month of April with a decline of 2.001 percent to hit its lowest closing figure of the month at 73.372.Bloomberg cited losses in small cap and biotechnology stocks as a driver of declines in U.S. stock […]
