Wealth is unevenly distributed across racial and ethnic groups in the United States. In this first post in a two-part series on wealth inequality, we use the Distributional Financial Accounts (DFA) to document these disparities between Black, Hispanic, and white...

The New York Fed’s Center for Microeconomic Data released the Quarterly Report on Household Debt and Credit for the fourth quarter of 2023 this morning. Household debt balances grew by $212 billion over the last quarter. Although there was growth across most loan...

The Fed isn’t going to cut rates in May. Wages are growing and productivity is growing, too. But it may not be able to cut rates anytime soon. Here’s why: A record $8.9 trillion of government debt will mature over the next year, see the first chart below. The...

Japanese, Canadian, and European banks started to confess. And for over a year, huge losses have hit investors, not banks. What’s amazing about the mess of the office sector of commercial real estate (CRE) is just how far and wide these mega-losses – by some...

Processing fees hit record low as smelters compete for ore Nation’s capacity expansion is likely to continue regardless Years of relentless growth are finally catching up with China’s copper smelters. Stung by disappearing profits, the country’s top industry body last...

The grim state of China’s housing market has so far had little effect on the iron ore price because its steel mills are diverting their surplus output onto export markets where they are adding to what the OECD says is a crisis of excess steel supply. While the...

Investors not bothered by change in timing of rate cuts: BofA Magnificant Seven technology stocks driving S&P 500 returns The rush into technology stocks is resembling the bubble of 1999, reflecting an assumption that the economy will perform strongly despite...

Bitcoin bulls want to know: If you can easily buy a commodity on the stock market, in ETF form, does that drive demand for the commodity itself? The answer, judging by the past three years in the world of gold ETFs, is a clear no. Why it matters: The run-up in the...

Central-bank purchases, OTC buying key to rising consumption Fed’s expected pivot is seen spurring additional accumulation Total gold demand hit a record last year and is expected to expand again in 2024 as the US Federal Reserve moves toward cutting interest rates,...

Share of top 10 stocks are nearing historical 2000 peak Strategists warn of a pullback led by top US equities The dominance of the 10 biggest stocks in US equity markets is increasingly drawing similarities with the dot-com bubble, raising the risk of a selloff,...

Source: Yahoo FinanceFollowing an incident of President Biden's voice being replicated in AI-generated robocalls, concerns arise over how artificial intelligence could impact future elections in the United States. As part of Yahoo Finance's AI Revolution special...

2022 was not a good year for the Chinese economy. In 2022, the COVID-19 epidemic, which started in December 2019, caused significant economic disruptions in the second quarter, especially in Shanghai, resulting in a real rate of growth for the Mainland economy of only...

The Media and Entertainment industry is filled with successful companies that have raised millions of dollars in VC funding that came from some of the top investors in the world. Many of these successes have turned into unicorns — private companies worth over $1...

There are a lot of reasons to feel good about the economy right now. Unemployment is low. Inflation is receding. The supply shocks of the pandemic are in the rear-view. But the positive indicators seem to be weighed down by a malaise. Maybe that’s because of...