Since the global pandemic stock market investors have been bombarded with market commentary of persistently high inflation, resulting high interest rates, and a so called yield curve inversion that’s likely to bring economic recession. And with the incoming administration’s threat of trade tariffs inflation expectations are well, re-emerging. Let’s break these relatively complex topics into their simpler components via chart analysis and present what I think is a constructive takeaway for the stock market in 2025, particularly for growth-oriented stocks. The Fed will adjust the Fed Funds policy rate based on their dual mandate of maximum employment and price stability.…
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Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian speaks at the CNN television, during his official visit in New York, United States on September 24, 2024.Iranian Presidency | Anadolu | Getty ImagesIran “never” plotted to assassinate Donald Trump during last year’s U.S. election campaign, President Masoud Pezeshkian told NBC News’ Lester Holt in an exclusive interview in Tehran. Asked about the reported plot against Trump outlined by U.S. authorities, Pezeshkian said: “This is another one of those schemes that Israel and other countries are designing to promote Iranophobia. … Iran has never attempted to nor does it plan to assassinate anyone. At least as far…
Intel said on Tuesday that it plans to spin off Intel Capital, its venture capital wing, into an independent firm, the latest in a series of structural changes announced by the chipmaker.Turning Intel Capital, which has $5 billion in assets, into a standalone fund will allow it to raise money from outside investors, Intel said. Until now, the venture arm has been fully funded by Intel.Intel is coming off its worst year on the stock market since the company went public in 1971 due to a series of missteps and hefty market share losses. The company has been cutting costs…
It was 2:46 p.m. on a Friday when the walls around Tomoyuki Murakami started to shake. He scrambled for cover inside the city hall in Rikuzentakata, a fishing village along Japan’s mountainous northeast coast. Murakami, a city official, had never felt an earthquake so strong. Plaster cracked. Picture frames fell and shattered. The floor sank in spots. The shaking lasted six minutes.“I thought I was going to die in that city hall,” Murakami said recently, through an interpreter.In Murakami’s office was a picture of the Little Leaguers he coached, a team photo taken the previous year at the baseball field…
Criminal investigators armed with a court-issued warrant began a second, much-anticipated operation early Wednesday to detain the impeached president, Yoon Suk Yeol, for questioning in connection with insurrection charges that stem from his short-lived imposition of martial law last month.Police buses started massing before dawn outside the hilltop presidential compound where Mr. Yoon has been holed up since he was impeached — and suspended from office — by the National Assembly on Dec. 14. He was the first South Korean leader to place his country under military rule since the country began democratizing in the late 1980s.When the investigators first…
Big banks are reporting quarterly financials this week, the opening salvo in the fourth quarter corporate earnings season. Large financial institutions are typically among the first major companies to deliver their profit reports each quarter. This group is closely watched for tea leaves on the broader economy given banking’s close connection to markets and customer finances. “Bank earnings are always an effective way to get a pulse on the economy and the consumer, especially as it relates to credit usage and repayment,” said Michael Landsberg, chief investment officer of Landsberg Bennett Private Wealth Management. “The big banks often give us…
Freshmen college enrollment increased in fall 2024, the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center said — contrary to its previous report that the enrollment declined.A “methodological error” in the preliminary enrollment report, released in October, caused the miscalculation, Executive Director Doug Shapiro said in a statement Monday.”The error in research methodology caused the mislabeling of certain students as dual-enrolled rather than as freshmen and, as a result, the number of freshmen was undercounted, and the number of dual-enrolled was overcounted,” Shapiro wrote.Because of the error, the October report showed a decline in freshmen enrollment at both two- and four-year institutions. It…
A man with a tattoo depicting late revolutionary hero Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara wears a T-shirt with colors of the U.S. flag in downtown Havana, Cuba, October 18, 2024. Norlys Perez | ReutersThe Biden administration on Tuesday is expected to lift the U.S. designation of Cuba as a state sponsor of terrorism, according to U.S. officials familiar with the matter. The officials were not authorized to comment and insisted on anonymity to discuss the yet to be publicly announced move.White House National Security Council officials declined to comment on the matter.The determination is likely to be reversed as early as next week…
MELBOURNE, Australia — Over the last week or so, it’s been easy to forget that Novak Djokovic is not the defending Australian Open champion. Partly because he is a 10-time winner here, partly because of his outsized profile, and partly because he remains a magnet for drama — even when he’s not playing.Ahead of the tournament, he appointed old rival Andy Murray as his coach in a shocking — but also logical — union of two of the most important men’s tennis players in the last 20 years. Then he agreed to play doubles with Nick Kyrgios, clinching their transformation…
