Souring Profit Outlooks Threaten S&P 500’s 20% Rally

Traders are punishing stocks for weaker-than-expected guidance Earnings growth is crucial as rate-cut uncertainty lingers Strong earnings beats from Corporate America may no longer be enough to keep the stock rally going. Profit outlooks are becoming more important....

Pandemic Savings Are Gone: What’s Next for U.S. Consumers?

The latest estimates of overall pandemic excess savings remaining in the U.S. economy have turned negative, suggesting that American households fully spent their pandemic-era savings as of March 2024. However, consumer spending has remained strong in recent months,...

US Firms Announce Fewer New Hires in April, Challenger Says

2024 sees slowest first four months of hiring in since 2016 AI cited for 800 job cuts in April, highest since May 2023 US companies pared back hiring plans in April, with employers announcing the fewest new hires in the first four months of the year since 2016,...

The State of Crypto Is Anything But Strong

Industry boosters say they’ve learned their lessons from the last crash, but regulators need to move faster to protect a new wave of mainstream investors from the same old story. After more than a year, the freeze of a deep crypto winter has thawed. Bitcoin prices...