(Bloomberg) — Compass Inc. has surged 89% over two days as the hard-hit home seller committed to managing costs, building on investors’ optimism that the Federal Reserve could slow the pace of rate hikes. Shares of the New York-based residential real estate firm gained 44% Friday, after the chief executive officer said Compass is managing […]
Read More(Bloomberg) — Calling the current environment a “crucible moment,” Sequoia Capital warned that the good times are not only over, there’s no indication when they’ll return. In a Zoom call earlier this month with the founders of its approximately 250 portfolio companies, the venture firm reviewed a 50-page presentation titled “Adapting to Endure,” according to […]
Read More(Bloomberg) — Wall Street is reluctantly coming to grips with a new reality for 2022: This isn’t going to be a good year for stocks. Credit Suisse cut its forecast for the S&P 500 Index last week. Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Bank of America Corp. and Morgan Stanley are also now predicting that equities will […]
Read More(Bloomberg) — A day after celebrating the Federal Reserve’s signal that it wouldn’t be making any jumbo-sized moves, traders woke up on Thursday deciding that the central bank will struggle to fight high inflation amid the lingering threat of a recession. In a sharp about-face, investors sold stocks, bonds and cryptocurrencies on Thursday. At one […]
Read More(Bloomberg) — David Wright knows a thing or two about bear markets. His Sierra Tactical All Asset Fund barely lost anything in 2008 as the global financial crisis caused the worst market panic since the Great Depression. Its loss during the Covid rout of 2020 was also relatively small. Wright, who is based in Santa […]
Read More(Bloomberg) — Stocks have yet to feel the full impact of risks from elevated inflation, Federal Reserve policy tightening and geopolitical tension. So argues Philip Orlando, chief equity market strategist at Federated Global Investment Management Corp., who is braced for another leg down in equities in coming weeks and months and indicated “playing defense” is […]
Read MoreCarly Tripp is global chief investment officer and head of investments for Nuveen Real Estate. Axel Dupeux Carly Tripp grew up playing in corn fields in Olney, Md., about 30 miles outside of Washington, D.C. But by the time she graduated high school, five grocery stores had popped up within a one-mile radius, turning the […]
Read More(Bloomberg) — The world’s biggest exchange-traded fund posted its worst monthly outflow in its near three-decade history with investors selling the Monday stock rebound en masse. The $407 billion SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust, known by its ticker SPY, in January saw its biggest redemption since launching in 1993, according to data compiled by Bloomberg, […]
Read More(Bloomberg) — How much further is the Federal Reserve willing to let stocks slide? That’s the burning question of the moment for financial markets, and Greg Jensen, co-chief investment officer at Bridgewater Associates, has an answer: as much as 20% more. That’d put the S&P 500 below 3,500, or close to where it was before […]
Read More(Bloomberg) — Jeremy Grantham got the market’s attention with his “super bubble” call on U.S. stocks. Now he wants to get an even more alarming and urgent message out, one his critics may find harder to accept. The “Goldilocks” period of the past 25 years is ending, and the world needs to prepare for a […]
Read More(Bloomberg) — U.S. equities investors, having enjoyed a lengthy run of rich valuations during the course of the pandemic, need to pull back, especially from growth stocks as the Federal Reserve begins to tighten monetary policy, according to Dennis Gartman, University of Akron Endowment Chairman. “A bear market is required at this point,” Gartman said […]
Read MoreA perfect storm. That’s the best way to describe the red-hot housing market we’ve seen from coast-to-coast during the pandemic. It was spurred by a combination of recession-induced low mortgage rates, remote work allowing buyers to sprawl further away from their workplace, and a demographic wave of first-time millennial homebuyers entering into the market. Of […]
Read MoreU.S. stock futures slumped Friday, with global markets rattled by a new coronavirus variant discovered in South Africa, which fanned concerns that new growth-crushing lockdowns could be imposed. Trading volumes were low due to the Thanksgiving holiday in the U.S., which could be could contributing to the volatility. However, major benchmarks indicated a rough opening […]
Read More(Bloomberg) — Bond yields are on the rise again, serving a reminder to technology investors of the need to guard against unwelcome surprises. As higher rates tend to discount the present value of future profits, tech stocks with the highest valuations tend to suffer most, as witnessed in the Nasdaq 100 Index’s 1.2% drop from […]
Read More(Bloomberg) — Zillow Group Inc. is pulling the plug on its tech-powered home-flipping operation after deciding that its pricing algorithms weren’t accurate enough to build a stable business. The company plans to take writedowns of as much as $569 million and reduce its workforce by 25% as it winds down the business in coming months, […]
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