(Bloomberg) — The inflation wave that’s sweeping through the global economy is playing into a investment niche that a small group of people in finance have spent years developing: farmland. Agricultural land has become attractive to institutional investors and wealthy families in recent years because returns tend to be stable and weakly correlated with other […]
Read MoreFor consumers, inflation is raising jitters and for good reason— rising prices could wipe out gains or stall the nation’s economic growth. Friday’s Consumer Price Index report showed inflation at a 39-year high, but the warning signs have been there. Americans say being able to afford to pay their bills and inflation rank second and […]
Read More(Bloomberg) — For many Americans, the sudden burst of inflation that has rocked the economy has been disorienting. Consumer prices had been so stable for so long in the U.S. that the population finds itself a little rusty on basic inflationary-era tactics. So for some advice, we turned to people who have become experts in […]
Read More(Bloomberg) — The U.S. went on a borrowing binge last year and the hangover could make it harder for the Federal Reserve to fight inflation without crashing the economy. Corporate debt has surged $1.3 trillion since the start of 2020 as borrowers took advantage of emergency Fed action as the pandemic spread, slashing interest rates […]
Read MoreIf you’re like me, you’re probably more than a little bit tired of hearing all of the talk about coronavirus and its impact on daily life. That’s a big reason, I think that the market rebounded so quickly from pandemic-driven, bear market lows that took about a month to be seen from the market’s high […]
Read MoreThe consumer-price index rose at its fastest annual rate in decades in October. Tim Boyle/Getty Images) When I was a young reporter in the 1980s, my newspaper gave me raises twice a year for a while. I’d like to tell you I earned the salary boosts through extraordinary merit, but all the reporters got them. […]
Read MoreSometimes, answering the question of whether a stock represents a legitimate, attractive value opportunity can be hard to do. A company could be struggling not only to grow its business, but may be forced to restructure its business in a way that makes most of the traditional measurables investors like to use look very unfavorable. […]
Read MoreWarren Buffett is holding these stocks for the huge free cash flow — with inflation at a 31-year high, you should too Wall Street pays a ton of attention to company earnings. But reported earnings are often manipulated through aggressive or even fraudulent accounting methods. That’s why risk-averse investors need to focus on companies that […]
Read MoreWith inflation no longer ‘transitory,’ Warren Buffett is relying on these 3 stocks to come out on top After months of rising prices, the Fed’s claim that high inflation rates would be “transitory” is looking a bit transitory itself. “It’s probably a good time to retire that word and try to explain more clearly what […]
Read MoreWharton’s Jeremy Siegel warns that stocks could drop 10% as soon as December — hold fast with these 3 ‘conservative’ tech picks The stock market could suffer a 10% correction as early as December if the Federal Reserve starts cracking down on inflation, a respected author and professor of finance says. With inflation hitting a […]
Read MoreLast year proved to be a gold speculator and investor’s dream after gold prices rallied hard to hit historical highs thanks to a perfect storm of a global pandemic, massive government stimulus packages, weakening dollar, and a stock market bull run that had finally run out of gas. The torrid rally represented the sharpest gain […]
Read MoreOne of the themes of most of 2021 has come as investors and economists have tried to look past the difficult conditions imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic and forecast the best places to look for new investing opportunities. It’s often called the “reopening trade,” referring to the industries and stocks that may be best positioned […]
Read More(Bloomberg) — Global bond yields are surging after a bigger-than-expected jump in U.S. inflation revived concerns that central banks will be forced to start raising interest rates sooner than traders anticipate. Treasuries tumbled Wednesday in an abrupt reversal for the world’s biggest bond market, where yields had declined after Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell last […]
Read MoreThe impact of the global pandemic sometimes seems to have no end in sight – even though economic activity has been picking up enough this year to start raising a lot of questions about inflationary pressures, their impact on interest rates, and more. One of the sectors that has rallied strongly since November of last […]
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