President Joe Biden on Friday hailed passage of a bipartisan deal to raise the U.S. debt limit and avoid a government default, addressing the nation from the Oval Office. “No one got everything they wanted, but the American people got what they needed,” the president said. “We averted an economic crisis and economic collapse.” Biden…
The U.S. Senate voted 63-36 in favor of a crucial debt-ceiling bill on Thursday night, sending the measure to President Joe Biden to be signed into law. The Fiscal Responsibility Act, which the Republican-run House of Representatives approved on Wednesday night in a 314-117 vote, raises the ceiling for federal borrowing and avoids a market-shaking…
With Congress raising the debt-ceiling and both sides of the aisle grumbling about the outcome, the debate over the mechanics of paying for the U.S. government’s obligations and the close call with default now fades back into obscurity. Until the next time. Assuming Congress won’t do away with the debt ceiling and push all spending…
Headline inflation may have come down over the past year, but consumers’ expectations about future inflation have not. In fact, five-year expected inflation has been inching up rather than down in recent months, according to the University of Michigan consumer survey. The median expectation is that inflation will run at a 3.1% annualized pace over…
The U.S. House of Representatives voted 314-117 in favor of a crucial debt-ceiling bill on Wednesday night, keeping Washington on track to meet the Treasury Department’s Monday deadline. There were 149 Republicans and 165 Democrats voting for the measure, while 71 Republicans and 46 Democrats voted against it. Those tallies show the extent…
While President Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy reached a debt-ceiling deal over the holiday weekend, that doesn’t mean it’s now all smooth sailing. Congress still must give its OK, starting with the Republican-run House of Representatives. Here’s what’s next, as the Treasury Department has called for action by this coming Monday in order…
With shares more than doubling this year, Meta Platforms META, +0.18% seems to be a stock that just won’t quit. But given the choice, investors may want to consider digital-advertising competitor Alphabet GOOGL, -0.75% GOOG, -0.63% instead. Sure, Facebook parent Meta Platforms topped earnings expectations and posted bullish guidance. Yet just after celebrating those results, investors…
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Best Buy Co. BBY, +4.28% Chief Executive Corie Barry said last week she expected the downtrend in tech-product demand to bottom out soon, with a rebound in the second half of the year. Executives for chip maker Nvidia Corp. NVDA, +2.54% said their logjam of products that could not find buyers after a pandemic surge…
I think about money through the same lens that I think about everything else. It starts with hard work, discipline, and applying yourself in whatever you choose to do so that you are able to build value in yourself and in what you bring to an organization. That value in turn creates opportunities personally and…
The bond market hasn’t been this popular for over a decade. For almost 15 years after the financial crisis of 2008, bond yields remained low and the U.S. stock market was much more appealing. That’s no longer the case. Treasury bills TMUBMUSD01Y, 5.246%, which are arguably the safest debt, are now offering yields well above…
Since I took over my mother’s finances as her power of attorney a few months ago, I’ve been doing something she might not approve of, and it’s weighing on me. We had a big talk about managing her finances during a recent visit, but even though we put a lot of cards on the table,…
You’re kidding yourself if you think you’ll know when you should reinvest the cash you have built up during the bear market of the last 18 months. You almost certainly will wait too long, in fact. That’s why you should adopt a plan that specifies when and how you will go about returning to being…
Debt-ceiling talks are “up and down,” Republican Rep. Patrick McHenry of North Carolina, a key deputy for House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, told reporters on Friday. “We are in the middle of a lot of different conversations and a lot of different paper coming back and forth, and as I said, the details are thornier, the…
If the jam-packed Memorial Day travel conditions have you thinking there must be an investment play in all the chaos, you are right. Post-pandemic wanderlust is real. It is only going to pick up from here. And the trend is not yet fully priced in to travel-related stocks. Here’s more detail on three key business…
President Joe Biden’s team and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s deputies are nearing a deal that would raise the U.S. debt ceiling and avoid a market-shaking default, though getting it through Congress quickly could prove tricky. McCarthy has said he’ll follow a rule to post any bill for 72 hours before votes, so that could mean…
Kneel to your king Wall Street. After forecasting record revenue backed by a “killer AI app,” Nvidia helped deliver a powerful performance for the Nasdaq COMP, +1.71% on Thursday. Indeed, thanks to that chip maker and a few other generals — Microsoft, Apple, Alphabet, etc.— tech is seemingly unstoppable: Top contributors to S&P 500 year-to-date…
On Thursday, Nvidia’s stock took an epic jump among the nation’s corporate giants. In one day, the graphics-chip maker total market capitalization added nearly $184 billion – that’s billion with a b. It is one of the biggest one-day market capitalization gains in American corporate history. Nvidia’s market capitalization was $754.3 billion at the stock…
Congress and President Biden are currently pretending to debate whether or not to raise the so-called debt ceiling from its current legal level, which is $31.4 trillion. “Pretending?” Yep. To hear both sides talking, you’d think this was some kind of debate about whether to raise the U.S. national debt above…er…“$31.4 trillion.” Cue laughter. U.S….
Financial markets are bracing for U.S. debt-ceiling talks to come down to the wire, putting the U.S. government dangerously close to a default, as the long Memorial Day weekend approaches. Stocks closed lower Wednesday, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, -0.77% posting a fourth straight session of declines, leaving the blue-chip index down 1.1%…