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There’s still too much risk in stock and bond markets. Earn this easy 4.5% return while you wait for stability, says trader who hit 2 big calls in 2022.

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There’s still too much risk in stock and bond markets. Earn this easy 4.5% return while you wait for stability, says trader who hit 2 big calls in 2022.

Ahead of major tech earnings, Meta results are ready to light up the Nasdaq Composite COMP, +2.00% for Thursday. The S&P 500 SPX, +1.05% is also pointing to gains as investors take a glass-half full view of the Fed meeting. Worried that investors are in the clutches of another Fed misread is the founder of LaDucTrading.com, … Read more

The Dow tumbled 500 points because Jerome Powell’s Fed ‘isn’t going to blink’

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The Dow tumbled 500 points because Jerome Powell’s Fed ‘isn’t going to blink’

It took stock-market investors a while to make up their minds, but when the closing bell sounded on Wednesday it was clear they didn’t like what they had heard from the Federal Reserve and its chairman Jerome Powell. See: Fed approves third large interest rate hike and signals more before year-end Central bankers also penciled … Read more

Dow down more than 500 points as brutal first half comes to close

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Dow down more than 500 points as brutal first half comes to close

U.S. stocks opened sharply lower on Thursday following the release of closelywatched inflation data, while Wall Street was headed for its worst first half of the year in more than 50 years. How are stock-index futures trading? S&P 500 dropped 72 points, or 1.9%, to 3,746. Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 509 points, or 1.6%, … Read more

Gold books sharpest daily drop in about 2 weeks

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Gold books back-to-back loss to kick off week

Gold futures closed lower on Wednesday, snapping 4-sessions of gains, as the dollar climbed and investors awaited the release of the Federal Reserve’s early May policy meeting for hints about its future policy course. Gold for June delivery GCM22, +0.09% [s:gc00] shed $19.10, or 1%, to settle at $1,846.30 an ounce on Comex. That marked … Read more