Day: May 1, 2022

Stock Market

Stocks, Yuan Fall as China Stokes Growth Concerns: Markets Wrap

(Bloomberg) — Stocks fell Monday as high inflation, tightening monetary policy and China’s Covid lockdowns deepened concerns about the economic outlook. Equities dropped in Japan, Australia and South Korea, while S&P 500 and Nasdaq 100 futures wavered after U.S. shares in April posted one of their worst monthly declines since the pandemic roiled markets in […]

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Bond Traders
Bond Yields
Treasury Yields
US Treasuries

Biggest Treasury Buyer Outside U.S. Quietly Offloads Billions

(Bloomberg) — In times of Treasury turmoil, the biggest investor outside American soil has historically lent a helping hand. Not this time round. Japanese institutional managers — known for their legendary U.S. debt buying sprees in recent decades — are now fueling the great bond selloff just as the Federal Reserve pares its $9 trillion […]

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Economic Collapse
Financial Shock
Pandemic

End of Easy Money Brings a $410 Billion Global Financial Shock

(Bloomberg) — The global shift away from easy money is poised to accelerate as a pandemic bond-buying blitz by central banks swings into reverse, threatening another shock to the world’s economies and financial markets. Bloomberg Economics estimates that policy makers in the Group of Seven countries will shrink their balance sheets by about $410 billion […]

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Inflation
Inflation Stocks
Warren Buffett

Buffett Lures Omaha Disciples With Stock Buys, Inflation Warning

(Bloomberg) — As war broke out in Europe and U.S. inflation soared, Berkshire Hathaway Inc.’s Warren Buffett was doubling down on a tried-and-trusted strategy to navigate the fallout. The billionaire investor went on his biggest stock buying spree for at least a decade, undeterred by the geopolitical turmoil and fears of runaway inflation. He and […]

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Fed Rate Hikes
Federal Reserve
Global Inflation
Inflation

Powell’s Fed Set to Go Big and Keep Going Until Inflation Tamed

(Bloomberg) — Jerome Powell doesn’t like to bless bets in financial markets, but he could shift the needle this week on how high investors expect the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates to cool overheated prices. The Fed chair and his colleagues want to lift rates expeditiously to a neutral level this year that neither […]

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Big Oil
Crude Oil
Energy Crisis
Energy Production
Oil

Chevron to Ramp Up Output at Biggest U.S. Oil Field

(Bloomberg) — Chevron Corp. lifted its production target in North America’s biggest oil field in a sign that U.S. shale is responding to $100-a-barrel crude despite rising cost pressures and equipment shortages. Chevron will produce at least 15% more from the Permian Basin this year compared with 2021, for a total output of about about […]

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Basic Materials
Trade Of The Day
TradersPro Sunday

Top Basic Material Stock Set To Move Higher

Alpha Metallurgical Resources, Inc., a mining company, produces, processes, and sells met and thermal coal in Virginia and West Virginia. As of December 31, 2021, it operated twenty active mines and eight coal preparation and load-out facilities. AMR $154.7400 -3.0000 % -1.9000 Alpha Metallurgical Resources Inc Sector : Basic Materials Industry : Mining – Misc […]

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