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It wasn't supposed to be like this. The economic expansion is in its ninth calendar year. The unemployment rate has plummeted to 4.3 percent, down from more than 8 percent five years ago. Home prices...
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The big market news over the past week has been the Dow Jones Industrial Average's smooth, consistent, drama-free rise above the 22,000 level. The combination of solid (yet still somewhat tepid)...
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For investors, things could scarcely be better than they are right now. U.S. large-cap stocks have rallied to fresh record highs, helped by a combination of solid earnings results and more perceived...
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For years, the Federal Reserve has been unable to convince the market it's serious about aggressively tightening policy. Janet Yellen and her cohorts have been guilty of "crying wolf," constantly...
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For years, stocks have been driven relentlessly higher thanks to a single statement that summarized the aggressive central bank largesse since the eurozone crisis flared up in 2012: Policymakers...
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The evidence is growing that the Federal Reserve’s policymakers are actively working to lean against the stock market's rise, a dramatic reversal from the years of policy support stock market bulls...
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The Wall Street bulls have had things all their own way over the past seven months, with the "Trumpflation" rally in industrial and bank stocks giving way to the tech rally among the "FAANGs" —...
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The bull-minded optimists that gravitate toward Wall Street are herded and fed by the major investment banks and brokerages, which because of their commission-based business models, try to encourage...
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Wall Street has soared since President Trump's surprise election win. The major indexes have all notched new record highs. And while the rally has narrowed in recent weeks (with small caps in a multi...
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A handful of mega-cap technology stocks like Amazon (AMZN), Facebook (FB) and Netflix (NFLX) have led the market’s recent run, pushing the Nasdaq Composite index to a record high above 6,200.
Never...
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The bulls are running again. Last Wednesday, spooked by a stream of negative headlines regarding the Trump White House and rising impeachment odds, the Dow Jones Industrial Average lost 1.8 percent...
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Things are moving fast in Washington, D.C.: Just over the last 24 hours, the Justice Department appointed a special counsel to look into the situation while Reuters is reporting Trump's campaign had...
