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...

Jobless Claims Jitters: Don't Be Fooled by the Headlines

William Walsh
A good day for stocks was supposedly sparked by economic reports released Thursday morning that supposedly were good news and that supposedly showed t...

The Sahm Rule: A New Recession Indicator or Just Noise?

William Walsh
The US economy coughed on Friday, the Japanese and Korean stock markets caught a cold and then at 9:30 AM ET yesterday, what had been a not all that u...

Intel's Meltdown: A Cautionary Tale for Investors

William Walsh
In 2002, or thereabouts, I began working with a client who owned something like $1.5 million of stock in Intel, which was, at the time, the largest ch...

NVIDIA's Fall: Why the Dow Soared While Everything Else Tanked

William Walsh
Regular listeners will know that we’ve taken note in recent weeks of divergences of note in the stock market. For example, we’ve seen:

Weak Economic Data: The Federal Reserve In a Corner

William Walsh
Thursday was a busy day on the economic calendar and all of the data that was released—all of it—pointed to a weakening economy. Nothing but red n...

Fed Tightrope Walk: Can They Fight Inflation Without Causing a Recession?

William Walsh
A lot has happened since the last Fed meeting. Specifically, a spike, a persistent spike In the inflation numbers. And the market’s apparent policy ...

Inflation Bites Back: PPI Soars, Higher For Longer is Now a Thing!

William Walsh
Inflation at the wholesale level measured by the Producer Price Index or PPI came in way, way, way above expectations on Friday morning. We'll get to ...

Stock Market Rallies After Tuesday's Plunge, S&P 500 Hits New All-Time High

William Walsh
More interesting and concerning to all of us here at World Headquarters was the news report that the economies of the 4th and 5th biggest US trading p...

Will We See Rate Hikes Instead? Inflation Surprises, Stocks Recoil

William Walsh
If you thought that rate cuts were coming, maybe in March, but surely no later than May. If you thought that the stock market was just a series of ste...

Shake it Off? Market Is All To Well, But Will It Be Our Blank Space Soon?

William Walsh
The S&P finally closed above 5,000 for the first time ever on Friday. The tech-heavy NASDAQ Composite is within 210 points of a new all-time high. Sma...

Dow Jones Soars, Elizabeth Warren Roars, Motley Fool Bores

William Walsh
The Dow and S&P close at new all-time highs, and the Nasdaq closes at a new 2-year high while in the face of a, ya know, pretty good economy and prett...

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