Inflation

By Stocks and bonds slumped due to the combination of rising inflation and subdued bank earnings … [+] guidance.gettyThe earnings season began slowly last week, with only 10 S&P 500 companies reporting. Banks were a large contingent of the reporters, which boosted the sector’s earnings expectations for the quarter as all the banks reported better-than-expected…

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By Michael Burry, the investor of “The Big Short” fame.Jim Spellman/Getty ImagesMichael Burry predicted a second inflation surge, and price growth reaccelerated in March.The “Big Short” investor first warned of inflation in April 2020, over two years before it peaked.Burry expected a recession, rate cuts, and stimulus spending to reignite inflation.Michael Burry of “The Big Short”…

By US stocks wobbled on Thursday after a cooler-than-expected reading on producer prices helped soothe investor worries stemmed by Wednesday’s surprise uptick in consumer prices.The Dow Jones Industrial Average (^DJI) traded just below the flatline while the S&P 500 (^GSPC) opened 0.2% higher, coming off a rout that saw the gauges drop about 1%. The…

By Key takeaways The Consumer Price Index rose 3.5% year over year, and the core index has risen 0.4% for three straight months. Inflation rates have steadily inched upward since the beginning of 2024, which could indicate that inflation is harder to tame than previously estimated. The upward trend in inflation reduces the chances the…

By Will we or won’t we get interest rate cuts this year? The question’s become puzzling amid strong economic data, like Friday’s stellar jobs report, and conflicting messages from Federal Reserve bank presidents who have floated everything from three to zero reductions in 2024.  Those mixed messages can weigh on consumers. In Monday’s Survey of…

By The late Paul Volcker was dubbed the “dragon slayer” for conquering inflation as the Federal Reserve’s chair in the 1980s. The central bank’s current chief, Jerome Powell, is yet to defeat his mythical beast — and Wall Street is getting worried.Powell warned on Wednesday that the Fed’s fight against inflation isn’t over after annualized…

By Inflation was falling in late 2023, but there were several upside surprises in that data during the first quarter of this year. “The Fed thinks it’s eventually going to come down to a 2% inflation rate. … I think that’s going to be hard,” Cohen told CNBC’s Andrew Ross Sorkin on “Squawk Box.” Cohen…

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