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Economic Report: Consumer Credit Accelerates In April To A Five-month High

Consumer borrowing accelerated in April, rising by $17.5 billion, after a revised $11 billion gain in March, the Federal... Read more

The Fed: Get Out The Scissors — Barclays Forecasts A Half-point Rate Cut From The Fed In July

Following the May employment report, Barclays now expects a half-point interest-rate reduction in July, up from a quarte... Read more

Commodities Corner: Golds Latest Rally Hints At A Return To Record Price Levels

Gold has moved higher for the year, after stalling just below the $1,300-an-ounce mark for weeks. All the factors for th... Read more

The Fed: If Fed Wants To Inject Positive Surprise, June Interest-rate Cut Might Be Best: Economist

If the Federal Reserve wants to get in front of the groundswell of doubt about the outlook, a June interest rate cut mig... Read more

Economic Report: Heres Another Bad Sign In The Jobs Report

It’s bad enough that the U.S. added 75,000 jobs in May. Drilling down further into the report, there’s another worri... Read more

Market Movers Blog: Global Bonds Attract Biggest Inflows In Four Years

In this live blog, Investment Week collates all the breaking market news, analysis and opinion on equity, bond and curr... Read more

Asia Markets: Asian Stocks Rise On Hopes Of U.S.-Mexico Deal To Avert Tariffs

Asian shares were mostly higher Friday on investor optimism about a possible trade deal between the U.S. and Mexico befo... Read more

Market Extra: Why The Jobs Report Could Give The Junk-bond Market A Second Wind

The U.S. junk bond market is making significant gains this week amid surging expectations that the Federal Reserve will ... Read more

In One Chart: The Market Is Terrible At Predicting Federal Reserve Interest-rate Moves, Chart Shows

After an ugly May, the stock market is on track for its best weekly gain since November of 2018, at least partly on the ... Read more

Key Words: Fed Typically Cuts Swiftly And Does Not Disappoint Market Expectations, Says BAML

In a report dated June 6, Mark Cabana, rates strategist, Joseph Song, U.S. economist, and currency strategist Adarsh Sin... Read more

Market Snapshot: Dow Logs Longest Win Streak Since March Amid Report Of Delayed Mexican Tariffs

U.S. stocks close solidly higher, after a report that Mexico tariffs could be delayed. Read more

Economic Report: Mortgage Rates Slump To 2-year Low — But Consumers May Not Bite

Rates for home loans tumbled again as intensifying market turmoil pushed investors into bonds. Whether would-be home buy... Read more

General News: Car Crash Of Bad News Sends Auto Stocks Plunging

Some of the world’s biggest auto makers have seen billions wiped off the value of shares after a disappointing day for... Read more

Metals Stocks: Gold Extends Gains To A 7th Session, The Longest Winning Streak In Over A Year

Gold gains Thursday, stretching its advance to seventh straight session, with market expectations for a Federal Reserve ... Read more

Vitaliy Katsenelson's Contrarian Edge: These Opposite Investment Strategies Are Battling To Control Your Stock Portfolio

Growth-stock investors can gloat over value investors — for now, writes Vitaliy Katsenelson. Read more