Daily Research & News
By Mike Larson On June 23, 202106:00 AM Eastern
Where’d you go, good old Uncle Jay?
That’s what Wall Street was left asking after Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell threw markets for a loop with his post-Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC)...
By David Dittman On June 22, 202106:00 AM Eastern
The Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) shook markets last week with its policy statement for June, as the specter of inflation seemed to rouse the central bank’s hawks.
St. Louis Federal...
By Sean Brodrick On June 21, 202106:00 AM Eastern
Many on Wall Street and in Washington D.C. breathed a sigh of relief this past week as crude oil prices pulled back from a recent peak.
Don’t be fooled! This is a short-term pullback in a bigger...
By Jessica Borg On June 20, 202106:00 AM Eastern
There’s no avoiding a certain word these days when it comes to stock market analysis: inflation.
“If you keep pumping money into the economy, eventually you’re going to see inflation ... Now we...
By Mike Larson On June 18, 202106:00 AM Eastern
I was a retail stockbroker at Merrill Lynch in the 1980s, and I’ll never forget one of the conversations I had with one of my wealthiest clients.
He said, “There’s nothing I like better than to...
By Kelly Green On June 17, 202106:00 AM Eastern
The news has been doing a really good job of grabbing my attention these days. This is the second week in a row that I found a rogue headline leading my research. Today’s must-click was “Coca-Cola...
By Mike Larson On June 16, 202106:00 AM Eastern
Is it time to start thinking about buying fewer Treasurys and mortgage bonds? Or raising interest rates at some point during the Biden administration’s first term?
Wall Street anxiously awaits...
By Jon D. Markman On June 15, 202106:00 AM Eastern
It was another wild weekend for the cryptocurrency market.
Bitcoin (BTC) popped again, and Jim Bianco is leaving little doubt about why.
I’m fascinated by what’s happening in crypto,...
By Sean Brodrick On June 14, 202106:00 AM Eastern
While uranium’s price has been rising slowly ...
... it’s nothing compared to the doubles, and even triples, we’ve seen for some uranium mining stocks since last fall.
What’s going on?
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By David Dittman On June 13, 202106:00 AM Eastern
Editor’s Note: Financial Anchor Jessica Borg is working on a longer-term assignment this week. She’ll be back with another great interview next Sunday. Milton Friedman famously said,...