Nov 16, 2024 | Markets
Home prices are at all-time highs, and — amazingly — are still rising. Compare today’s average price to that of 2007, which is generally thought to be the peak of America’s biggest-ever housing bubble: And mortgage rates, which were supposed to fall when the Fed...
Nov 16, 2024 | Markets
A key gauge of earning-per-share changes is now negative S&P 500’s valuation multiple is highest since April 2021 Wall Street analysts are quickly scaling back their forecasts for Corporate America’s earnings growth over the next year, which could pump the brakes...
Nov 16, 2024 | Markets
The stock market hogs all the headlines, but better gauges can be found in the bond and currency markets. Trump’s Market Honeymoon Won’t Last Much Longer — Robert Burgess The clock is ticking for Donald Trump and his surrogates to provide answers to some...
Nov 15, 2024 | Markets
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s selection to serve as President-elect Donald Trump’s top health official is prompting questions from policy watchers over how the pick will handle the range of key health policies that would fall under his purview. Kennedy, an environmental...
Nov 15, 2024 | Markets
Enriched uranium needed in reactors supplying 19% of US power Russia says it’s responding to US law curbing uranium imports Russia is temporarily limiting exports of enriched uranium to the US, creating potential supply risks to utilities operating American reactors...
Nov 15, 2024 | Markets
Rate angst sparks worst weekly pan-asset selloff in 13 months Citi says market action showing investors feel ‘exhausted’ After a post-election risk-taking binge, stock investors sobered up this week as Jerome Powell’s go-slow message on interest-rate cuts cooled...