Pension Funds Plunge Into Riskier Bets—Just as Markets Are Struggling
U.S. public pension funds don’t have nearly enough money to pay for all their obligations to future retirees. A growing number are adopting a risky...
The Fed Gives Banks a Clean Bill of Health. The Stock Market Hasn’t.
The biggest commercial banks survived in the Federal Reserve’s nightmare hypothetical scenario of an economic collapse. A real-world test is coming. To be sure, if...
Pensions’ Bad Year Poised to Get Worse
State and local government retirement funds started the year with their worst quarterly returns since the beginning of the pandemic. Things have only gone downhill...
‘The Fed always screws up’: This forecaster sees inflation peaking and U.S. stocks in a bear market by summer
Keith McCullough, founder and CEO of Hedgeye Risk Management, has been bullish on gold, silver and utilities since the start of the year, when his...
‘Calamity’ may be coming, stock-market setup similar to 1999: Jeffrey Gundlach
A “calamity” may be coming for markets, potentially in 2023, Jeffrey Gundlach, chief executive officer and chief investment officer of DoubleLine, warned Tuesday on stage...
Gold settles nearly 2% higher to end a 4-session streak of declines
Gold futures ended nearly 2% higher on Thursday to post their first gain in five sessions, buoyed by a drop in the U.S. dollar. Investors...