Last month, the U.S. Federal Reserve announced it would raise interest rates for a third time this year and intended to initiate a fourth raise in the near future.
The Fed's aggressive interest rate tactics rattled concerned investors who believed that regular interest rate hikes could put a sizable dent in their portfolios.
Last month, the U.S. Federal Reserve announced it would raise interest rates for a third time this year and intended to initiate a fourth raise in the near future.
The Fed's aggressive interest rate tactics rattled concerned investors who believed that regular interest rate hikes could put a sizable dent in their portfolios.
Right now, the Fed rate hike odds show the markets believe interest rates will be raised in June 2017.
In fact, almost 90% of investors think a rate hike will happen in June.
The odds for interest rates going up in June 2017 are high.
The markets expect nearly an 80% chance the Fed will raise rates on June 14.
And if rates are raised, it's going to have an impact on your money...
Will the Fed raise interest rates in March 2017?
Right now, investors predict there's an 80% chance rates are raised.
Will the Fed raise interest rates in November?
That's the most common question we've received in the last few days.
U.S. interest rates will not be raised in September.
But the Fed wants to raise interest rates one more time before the end of 2016.
So consider this strategy to hedge against negative rates...
The Fed's low interest rates are killing savers and retirees, costing them more than $470 billion in interest income.
And this "financial repression" is about to get even worse. Here's how...
After another dovish Federal Reserve interest rate statement from Chair Janet Yellen yesterday, global stocks and commodities are rallying.
Investors can now expect lower interest rates to last deeper into 2016.
Here's what that means for your money now....
Stocks kept rallying last week despite the fact that economic conditions are not improving anywhere in the world.
Investors predictably celebrated the European Central Bank's decision to lower interest rates further below zero and to buy more debt (including investment grade corporate bonds) in pa continuation of its desperate efforts to revive a moribund European economy.
That's bad, but it's not the immediate concern right now...
Many investors really start to study the markets this time of year in an effort to divine what's next for global markets and, by implication, their portfolios.
But for an accurate financial forecast, I turn to the world's top steak houses, which are known haunts for global traders anxious to blow off some steam and have a fabulous meal.
Today I'm going to talk about what's not"on the menu" - pardon the pun - and why. Then, I'll highlight an investment poised for profits as a result.
Here's what waiters can tell you that economics can't.
Investors should not be fooled by the strong performance of stocks last week. Fundamentals have not changed and still present major headwinds to a market recovery.
Oil ended the week at $29.64 per barrel (BTI crude), which is still too low to save struggling fracking companies from the junk heap. The junk bond market backed away from 10% yields but is still a disaster zone. And major hedge funds are still nursing double digit losses.
What we saw was a classic short-covering rally inside a bear market that has further to run. Readers should not let their guards down and let themselves get fooled into diving back into dangerous waters.
Nearly 500 million people now live in countries with official negative-interest-rate policies, and the United States may be next.
Seven years of zero interest rates have already severely punished savers; negative interest rates will finish the job by confiscating their capital for the mere privilege of depositing it in a federally licensed banking institution.
The soldiers of fortune at the U.S. Federal Reserve have devised an insidious plan to solidify their control over free markets and America.
This prescription envisions banks lending cheaply and consumers spending robustly, spurring economic growth and propping up beleaguered markets.
Wall Street and the media breathlessly waited for Yellen & Co. to hike the fed funds target from 0% to 0.25% up to 0.25% to 0.50% - a move that's been telegraphed for months and largely already priced in to the ZIRP-addled markets.
The drama around this move was manufactured. You can't call those rates anything but accommodative.
But with so much focus on the fed funds rate, it's really not surprising that the media missed the fact that the really important rates have been on the move since July.
Meanwhile, "overnight money," money that the central bank loans overnight to banks (and which the Fed influences through open market operations), has barely budged.
