• Fed's Powell: On Track for Taper, High Inflation Could Last into Next Year
  
  Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said on Friday that the U.S. central bank is "on track" to begin reducing its purchases of assets, and noted that he expects inflation to abate next year as pressures from COVID fade.
• Fed Closes in on November Bond Taper After Jobs Report
  
  The Federal Reserve may move to begin reducing its support for the economy next month despite a sharp slowdown in jobs gains last month as the latest U.S. surge in COVID-19 cases crested and began to recede.
• Global Markets Head for Weekly Gain Ahead of US Jobs Data
  
  Stock markets slipped on Friday but held most of the previous session's gains as investors welcomed the U.S. Senate's temporary lifting of the debt ceiling and awaited crucial jobs data due later.The rally on Thursday has lifted global stock indexes into positive territory...
• Markets Could Face Sharp Correction, Bank of England Warns
  
  The high value of financial assets could correct sharply if investors reassess the prospects for the economy's recovery from COVID-19 and there are signs of increased risk-taking at investment banks, the Bank of England (BOE) said Friday.
• Zoom Stock Drop Likely Nixed Five9 Deal
  
  A slump in Zoom Video Communications Inc's share price likely limited its ability to sweeten a nearly $15 billion all-stock offer for call center software firm Five9, Wall Street analysts said Friday.
• Evergrande Contagion Threatens 'Everything Bubble' in the US
  
  Evergrande, a real-estate colossus in China, is collapsing. Don't expect the collapse to be contained to China. The global macro implications are huge.
• Perkins: A Printed Circuit Board Factory-in-a-Box?
  
  Great inventions are successful when they drive some combination of improved speed and/or ease of use, better quality, or greater ability compared to the preceding product or service. We have seen this all around us.
• Sen. Elizabeth Warren: Regional Fed Banks Must Stop Leaders From Trading Stocks
  
  Sen. Elizabeth Warren has called on regional Federal Reserve Banks to impose rules that would prevent their leaders from trading individual stocks. The Massachusetts Democrat's request, via letters...
• Stocks at 40 Times Profits Are Cheap, Wall Street Has Determined
  
  Buying shares trading at 40 times earnings may not sound like a good deal. But that's exactly what Maneesh Deshpande is telling clients to do.The head of equity derivatives strategy at Barclays Plc just upgraded his recommendation on Apple Inc. and other technology giants,...
• Bubble Expert Grantham Addresses 'Epic' Stock Euphoria
  
  It's been just over a year since the last stock market crash, and investors are wondering if another one is on the way. With economic momentum slowing as the effects of fiscal stimulus wear off, it's no surprise that equities seem to be fading, too. Meanwhile, labor...
• A $1 Trillion Buying Spree Lets S&P 500 Brush Off Bear Warnings
  
  Market watchers have heard the warnings over and over. Stocks are expensive. Growth is set to slow. Higher taxes and hawkish monetary policy loom as threats. Yet there's a mighty force pushing back against all the bearish voices: buyers who keep on buying.Demand is up...
• Meme Stock Rally Puts Spotlight on Russell 2000 Index Reshuffle
  
  A busy week for trading desks won't end with the closing bell, at least for investors tracking FTSE Russell indexes.The index provider is set to announce preliminary changes after the close, and the Russell 2000 will take center stage with tweaks to the gauge of small-cap...
• Stocks Slide on Biden Plan to Lift Capital-Gains Tax
  
  U.S. stocks headed for their biggest drop since mid-March after President Joe Biden was said to propose doubling the capital gains tax to near 40% for the wealthy.
• Just Before the 'Everything' Bubble Explodes: Stock Market Mania in 2021
  
  Is the market going insane? Is an enormous "everything bubble" - inflated with cash flowing into overvalued investments - headed for a historic explosion? Is the market in a "mania" phase right now?With every passing day, it's getting more challenging to answer "no" to any...
• OPEC Expects Most of 2021 Oil Demand Recovery in Second Half
  
  OPEC said on Thursday a recovery in oil demand will be focused on the second half of the year as the impact of the pandemic lingers as a headwind for the group and its allies in supporting the market. In a monthly report, the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting...
• This Isn't Your Father's Overvalued Market
  
  Many analysts contend that current stock valuations resemble the dot-com era. You can see it visually at CurrentMarketValuation.com. Some highlights . . .The classic "Buffett Indicator" certainly seems to be in nosebleed territory. Notice that the valuations in 1966, the...
• A $50 Billion Unwind Fueled Treasuries' Rout. It Has Room to Run
  
  A chaotic selloff in the Treasuries market was spurred by a massive exodus from popular trades, heightened by liquidity concerns that could inflict more pain in coming days.The exodus happened at a time when traders were already worried about the imminent disappearance of a...
• Bitcoin's Second North American ETF Just Started a Price War
  
  Just a week after the first Bitcoin exchange-traded funds in North American started trading, the underdog firm just kicked off a fee war.Evolve Fund Group in Canada lowered the price on its Bitcoin ETF, ticker EBIT, to O.75% from 1%, according to a statement. That's now...
• Yellen Challenges Powell's Control of the Market
  
  The Fed attempts to maintain control of various rates (including inflation, unemployment and long-term interest rates) through its monetary policy decisions. In the past, poor choices arguably led to both the dot-com bubble and the Great Recession. But that's old...
• Who Is Smarter Than the Market?
  
  The past few weeks have made me reflect on conditions that felt somewhat similar to 1998. We have all watched in amazement at how a large group of young investors threw a massive curveball at the hedge fund community by squeezing the shorts on names like GameStop and Nokia....
• Silver Soared in February
  
  Silver soared to over $30 an ounce on February 1, 2021 - the highest level in eight years - early Monday on a "Reddit Rally" as investors surged into the market.Since the previous Thursday, when Reddit and Twitter posts began urging small investors to buy silver mining...
• SPAC Listing Boom Drives Record $63 Billion January for IPOs
  
  A record month for SPAC listings is helping power the busiest-ever start to a year for initial public offerings, in another sign of the investor frenzy that's led to overheated markets around the globe.Special purpose acquisition companies completed nearly $26 billion of...
• 10 Reasons Why the Dow Will Go to 40,000 in the Next 18 Months
  
  The Dow is composed of more value stocks than growth. Value stocks are positioned for continued growth. Also, 40% of the S&P Company income comes from offshore business activity.There are 7 billion people on earth and 3.5 billion are under 30 and who must buy the products...
• Debt Deals Loom With $430B in Real Estate Loans Due
  
  Private credit funds, sitting on $196 billion for U.S. commercial real estate deals, are poised to pounce as struggling property owners seek loans to ride out the pandemic.
• Cryptocurrency XRP Tumbles After SEC Charges Ripple
  
  Cryptocurrency XRP tumbled 24% on Wednesday after the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) charged associated blockchain firm Ripple with conducting a $1.3 billion unregistered securities offering.

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