Inflation, Retail Spending Give the Fed a “Go Ahead” on Rate Hike Plans

Not that the Federal Reserve hadn't already made up its mind about a rate-hike later today, but to the extent any last minute data is capable of altering that choice, this week's inflation and retail sales data won't give Fed Chairperson Janet Yellen any pause… and neither data set was particularly, unusually strong. Indeed, both data sets were tepid by...

Crash Guru Warns the Dow Could Plunge to 14,800 — A Sign Could Come this Week

Chart specialist Sandy Jadeja focuses on price, pattern and time By Barbara Kollmeyer, MarketWatch It’s already been a big year for the Dow industrials, which have stretched a near-decade-long bull market to historic heights. But if the technical stars collide, as one chartist predicts, the blue-chip gauge could soon plunge by more than 6,000 points to 14,800. That’s nearly 30%...

Crash Guru Warns the Dow Could Plunge to 14,800 — A Sign Could Come this Week

Chart specialist Sandy Jadeja focuses on price, pattern and time By Barbara Kollmeyer, MarketWatch It’s already been a big year for the Dow industrials, which have stretched a near-decade-long bull market to historic heights. But if the technical stars collide, as one chartist predicts, the blue-chip gauge could soon plunge by more than 6,000 points to 14,800. That’s nearly 30%...

Weekly Market Outlook – The Rally is Saved in the Nick of Time, But…

Stocks logged a loss last week – the first in the past seven. And yet, even with the loss, they ended the week on a bullish foot, pivoting out of Wednesday's and Thursday's bearish move. Support at the 20-day moving average lines lent a helping hand. So, the trend remains bullish, as unlikely as more gains may seem following a...

Weekly Market Outlook – The Rally is Saved in the Nick of Time, But…

Stocks logged a loss last week – the first in the past seven. And yet, even with the loss, they ended the week on a bullish foot, pivoting out of Wednesday's and Thursday's bearish move. Support at the 20-day moving average lines lent a helping hand. So, the trend remains bullish, as unlikely as more gains may seem following a...

A March Rate Hike Was Just All But Guaranteed

Whatever the odds of a rate-hike were before Friday, they just got better (and they were pretty good odds to begin with). February's strong jobs growth  – and wage growth – make it tough for Fed Chairperson Jane to Yellen to say anything except the economy is  on firm enough footing that the risk of inflation is too great to...

A March Rate Hike Was Just All But Guaranteed

Whatever the odds of a rate-hike were before Friday, they just got better (and they were pretty good odds to begin with). February's strong jobs growth  – and wage growth – make it tough for Fed Chairperson Jane to Yellen to say anything except the economy is  on firm enough footing that the risk of inflation is too great to...

Gold to Jump $200 by End of the Year, Bank of America says

By Spriha Srivastava, CNBC Gold may be under pressure in the run-up to the next Federal Reserve rate hike, but prices are expected to rally by around $200 by the end of the year, according to the corporate and investment banking division of Bank of America. In a research note Thursday, analysts at Bank of America Merrill Lynch highlighted its...

Gold to jump $200 by end of the year, Bank of America says

By Spriha Srivastava, CNBC Gold may be under pressure in the run-up to the next Federal Reserve rate hike, but prices are expected to rally by around $200 by the end of the year, according to the corporate and investment banking division of Bank of America. In a research note Thursday, analysts at Bank of America Merrill Lynch highlighted its...

Real Estate & Rate Change – You’ve Been Warned!

By: John Winston and Chris Vermeulen, ActiveTradingPartners.com Is this the moment which could spark a stock market sell-off? Federal Reserve Chairwoman Janet Yellen, in a speech given in Chicago, last Friday, March 3rd, 2017, suggested that the FED will likely resume raising interest rates later this month. Yellen also said that the Fed expects steady economic improvement to justify additional...
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