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As Earnings Season Begins, Inflation and Supply Chain Issues Cloud the Outlook

October 18, 2021 RickMad Comments Off

NYTimes.com: The Delta variant of the coronavirus has hurt hiring and made policymakers’ lives more difficult. But investors are taking it in stride, because it appears to have had little effect on corporate profits. Executives, […]

The Biggest Risk Facing Investors This Earnings Season Is Lurking Just Beneath The Surface

October 15, 2021 RickMad Comments Off

MarketWatch.com: An analysis of the financial strength of one economically sensitive sector — travel and leisure — indicates things are not nearly as good as they might seem. The following article was first published on […]

Business

11 Predictions For 2023—From Yahoo Finance Readers

YahooFinance.com: How good is your intuition? We’ll know in 12 months or so, when we assess the accuracy of predictions that more than 6,000 Yahoo Finance readers made for 2023. [...]
Federal Reserve

Fed Prepares to Taper Stimulus Amid More Doubts on Inflation

WSJ.com: Federal Reserve officials are set to wind down their $120 billion-a-month bond-purchase program in November, but questions over how soon inflation pressures will fade are creating more uneasiness inside [...]
Housing Market

Real Estate Experts Say ‘Challenges’ To Buyers and Sellers Are The ‘Greatest Ever’

FoxBusiness.com: For homebuyers and sellers alike across America, there’s a massive “struggle” being felt to close deals or make any money. “The challenges to real estate buyers and sellers right now are [...]
Gold

Venezuelans Break Off Flakes of Gold to Pay for Meals, Haircuts

Bloomberg.com: To fathom the magnitude of Venezuela’s financial collapse, travel southeast from Caracas, past the oil fields and over the Orinoco River, and head deep into the savanna that blankets one [...]
Covid 19

How Millennials’ Financial Futures Have Been Impacted By Pandemic Unemployment

This spring, the coronavirus pandemic led to the biggest unemployment spike in U.S. history. Between the end of March and the beginning of August, over 1 million people applied for unemployment insurance — [...]
Housing Market

Housing Market Update: It’s the Best Time to Buy Since Mid-September, As Mortgage Rates Fall and Sellers Drop Prices

Redfin.com: Mortgage-purchase applications are up 3% week over week as homebuyers act on a few pieces of buyer-friendly news: Mortgage rates have dropped from 8% to 7.4% in the last [...]