Buzz on Business

Government Manipulation: The Yield Curve's New Normal

William Walsh
The yield curve has disinverted or has righted itself. In normal circumstances, long-term rates are higher than short-term rates. Investors locking th...

A Bad Day for Stocks: Worst Week of 2024

William Walsh
A bad, bad day on Friday put the bow on a bad, bad week for stocks. Again, fears of economic weakness in the face of some disappointing economic and l...

The Fed's Tightrope: Why Lower Rates Might Not Boost Asset Prices

William Walsh
Like Darth Vader finally blurting out that he was indeed the baby daddy, Federal Reserve Board Chairman Jerome Powell, in his speech to the Jackson Ho...

Government Subsidies and Inflation: Unpacking the Housing Debate

William Walsh
Consider the market for widgets. Widgets are a necessity, have been in short supply and their price has increased by about 25% in recent years and now...

CPI Comes in as Expected, Market Yawns 

William Walsh
The headline Consumer Price Index numbers came in precisely as expected on Wednesday morning. We’ll get into those numbers in just a minute but the ...

PPI Report Delivers: Stocks Soar, Bond Yields Fall 

William Walsh
The business, financial, economic or stock market story that has dominated our collective consciousness over the last year has not been the labor mark...

Economic Jitters Send Stocks Plunging: What's Next?

William Walsh
Stocks sold off, hard, from open to close on Thursday, in one of the biggest daily declines in over a year. It was brutal. But in a market that has be...

Oil Surges, Gold Shines: Commodity Corner Update 

William Walsh
While this is probably the case with all press conferences, especially those held by political figures, there seem to be three broad categories of que...

Market Madness: Microsoft Miss, McDonald's Magic, and a Fed Frenzy 

William Walsh
The Buzz on Business for July 30th, 2024  Microsoft and a host of other big technology companies sold off during the day on Tuesday, in anticipat...

Market Mood Swings and Fed Jitters: A Boring Day on Wall Street

William Walsh
Perhaps the best explanation for the rather confusing market action we saw on Monday is the Federal Open Market Committee and its two-day meeting that...

Fed Meeting, Earnings Season, and Economic Reports: A Week to Watch

William Walsh
The inflation data released on Friday came in pretty much as expected and, to us, appears to set the table for rate cuts, perhaps as soon as this Wedn...

 Fed Funds Futures Signal Rate Cut, Markets Soar

William Walsh
The Buzz on Business for July 17th, 2024 The Chicago Mercantile Exchange is a great collection of financial market traders and contracts to be traded....
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