Published: March 5, 2024 at 10:02 a.m. ET Story developing. Stay tuned for updates here. The numbers: U.S. factory orders fell 3.6% in January large due to fewer contracts for Boeing passenger planes, but there was not much sign of a broad revival among manufacturers. Economists surveyed by the Wall Street Journal had forecast a … Read more
Stock-market investors may take their cues from a series of important events in the week ahead, including the Federal Reserve’s monetary-policy meeting, a closely-watched December employment report and an onslaught of earnings from megacap technology names, which all promise insight into the state of the economy and interest-rate outlook. The benchmark S&P 500 index SPX … Read more
Updated Jan. 16, 2024 12:39 pm ET Chinese Premier Li Qiang gave global business elites a big hint on highly anticipated growth figures, as he sought to reassure them that investing in China is an opportunity—not a risk. Li delivered the message in an address at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, as Chinese … Read more
Employers hired at a solid pace in December, capping a year of steady gains for a job market that continues to defy expectations and remains a bright spot in a gradually cooling economy. The U.S. economy added 216,000 jobs last month with most industries increasing employment, the Labor Department reported Friday. That was larger than … Read more
A gradual cooling of the still-solid labor market extended into November, renewing optimism the economy is still on a glide path for a soft landing. Employers added a seasonally adjusted 199,000 jobs last month, the Labor Department reported Friday, slower than earlier in the year but consistent with gains before the pandemic. When excluding the … Read more
Published: Nov. 22, 2023 at 3:07 p.m. ET Wall Street’s favorite permabear is back with a warning for anybody who believes the U.S. economy is destined for a “soft landing” in 2024. In his latest note to Société Générale clients, Albert Edwards, the Société Générale global strategist widely followed for his bearish takes on the … Read more
With wars raging again in Europe and the Middle East, and U.S.-China tensions on the boil, the political order that underpinned markets for decades is under serious threat. So, too, is the financial order, as the U.S., Europe, and even Japan exit the zero-interest-rate era, and the U.S. and China face deteriorating fiscal health. In … Read more
Updated Nov. 14, 2023 6:21 pm ET Inflation’s broad slowdown extended through October, likely ending the Federal Reserve’s historic interest-rate increases and sparking big rallies on Wall Street. Consumer prices overall were flat last month and rose 3.2% from a year earlier, a slower pace than in September, the Labor Department said Tuesday. Overall inflation … Read more
Jon Gray, the president of Blackstone Group, the world’s biggest alternative asset investment firm with $1tn under management, is watching for signs of an economic slowdown in the coming months. “So I think the Fed is going to slow the economy. And that’s really their objective, right?” Gray said in an interview with Private Equity News’ sister … Read more
Kyla Scanlon is hardly your typical markets commentator—but then again how many 16-year-old girls growing up in Louisville traded stock options on the weekend. “It was just something interesting to do. My parents were supportive,” she says. “My dad dabbled in it and so he was like, ‘this is a cool way for you to … Read more