As the Federal Reserve is expected to kick off its interest rate-easing cycle tomorrow, many on Wall Street are wondering whether the Fed's soft landing is in sight. Yahoo Finance Markets Reporter Josh Schafer joins Asking for a Trend to break down the most recent Bank of America Global Fund Managers survey illustrating increased investor confidence in a soft landing scenario. For more expert insight and the latest market action, click here to watch this full episode of Asking for a Trend. This post was written by Melanie Riehl
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STORY: A widely expected interest rate cut at the conclusion of the Federal Reserve's policy meeting Wednesday has many wondering what impact the decision may have, after one of the central bank's steepest increases for borrowing costs in history.:: [How a rate cut could impact Main Street]Let’s start with it might effect housing and consumers.Michael Bailey is director of research At FBB Capital Partners."If the Fed starts cutting rates, there has historically been a connection with mortgage rates, so as those come down in theory homes should become more affordable, so that may help that part of the economy. The flip side is that regular consumer products and staples, we have gone through a wave of massive inflation and that's the reason the Fed raised rates, to kind of slow that down, however, the damage has already kind of been done. A lot of those prices are higher, so it is less likely they will come down.":: [How a rate cut could impact Wall Street]For investors, a key question may be whether the Fed will cut rates in time to avert a potential economic slowdown. George Cipollini, portfolio manager at Penn Mutual Asset Management looked at Goldman Sachs Research about how the S&P 500 performs in the first year after a rate cut.“if the economy is not in a recession, the market tends to go up roughly 10 to 12, 10 to 15%. And if we are in a recession, the market tends to go down about 10-15%. So it really is two different dress like different and binary outcomes from a potential standpoint in terms of what the stock market may do in, in terms of the reaction.”:: [How a rate cut could impact U.S. bonds]In terms of Treasuries, they have already seen a huge rally, and some investors believe they are unlikely to run much further unless the economy experiences a recession.The problem is economists see little evidence that the U.S. is currently in a recession and we likely won’t know for several more months.
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NEW YORK, September 17, 2024--Politan Capital Management (together with its affiliates, "Politan"), an 8.9% shareholder of Masimo Corporation ("Masimo" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: MASI), today highlighted that leading proxy advisory firm Glass, Lewis & Co. ("Glass Lewis") has updated its earlier report to reiterate its recommendation that shareholders vote FOR the election of Politan’s nominees, Darlene Solomon and Bill Jellison, to the Company’s Board of Directors (the "Board") at the Annual Mee
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STORY: :: A cybersecurity expert says it is 'surprising' that Hezbollah was using pagers after detonations in Lebanon:: New York:: Joseph Steinberg, Author, 'Cybersecurity for Dummies'"So, you know, it's somewhat surprising that Hezbollah would rely on pagers, knowing that Israel has a history going back decades of being able to detonate electronic devices. Ironically, there were reports in the media not that long ago that Hezbollah essentially broadcast to the world that they were downgrading from cell phones to pagers in order to prevent Israeli intelligence from tracking people using the GPS capabilities. Why they would broadcast something like that to the world, I cannot tell you." "Electronic devices such as cell phones and pagers are typically not manufactured in Lebanon or Syria or Iran. They are getting these products, Hezbollah is getting these products, from overseas manufacturers. And it is likely that Western entities have the ability to influence the supply chain, to put it mildly.""If this was Israel, which presumably it was, it should not be surprising that they have the capability to carry something like this out. The bigger question would be how did they manage to booby trap all of these pagers?"Joseph Steinberg, author of "Cybersecurity for Dummies," said Israel has a history of using technology, including remotely detonated devices, against its enemies, citing a cellphone used to kill a member of Hamas in Gaza in the mid-1990s.Lebanese Information Minister Ziad Makary condemned the late afternoon detonation of the pagers - handheld devices that Hezbollah and others in Lebanon use to send messages - as an "Israeli aggression." Hezbollah said Israel would receive "its fair punishment" for the blasts.The Israeli military, which has been engaged in cross-border fighting with Iran-backed Hezbollah since the start of the Gaza war in October, declined to respond to questions about the detonations.A Hezbollah official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the detonation of the pagers was the "biggest security breach" for the group in nearly a year of conflict with Israel.
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Hedge fund Irenic Capital Management on Tuesday urged Kinaxis to see who may want to buy the Canadian software company and warned its board against making "reactive decisions" and taking "half measures." The Board "should initiate a full strategic review including soliciting interest for a sale for the whole company," Irenic said in a statement, echoing other investors' private and public calls for the company to put itself up for sale. Irenic, run by former Elliott Investment Management and Indaba Capital Management executives Adam Katz and Andy Dodge, called Kinaxis a "world-class software asset" that needs to find a new chief executive officer and head of sales and also needs to review interest in the company from potential financial and strategic buyers.
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JPMorgan Asset Management chief global strategist David Kelly joins Julie Hyman and Akiko Fujita at the Future Proof Festival to discuss the state of the US economy as the Federal Reserve is expected to make its first interest rate cut in four years this week. Kelly calls the current economy "healthy," explaining, "the unemployment rate is at 4.2%, the CPI [Consumer Price Index] inflation rate 2.5%. You add those two numbers together, 6.7 — that is lower than it's been 84% of the time over the last 50 years. So I think the Federal Reserve really shouldn't have too much angst about this," he tells Yahoo Finance. He argues that the Fed shouldn't have pushed rates as high as they did and should have initiated cuts earlier. However, he explains that if Fed officials cut aggressively from here on out, they runs the risk of undermining investor confidence as it could signal that the economy is worse off than expected. "It's kinda like lowering a piano down from the fourth floor of a building. You got to do it slowly and carefully because the biggest risk is that you freak people out." If the Fed sparks recession fears by cutting rates too aggressively, Kelly believes that it could cause a ripple effect that impacts everything from hiring to the housing market. While lower rates will stimulate the economy, he warns, "the first few moves actually hurt the economy, not help it. That's why the Federal Reserve has such a hard time cutting rates and actually having it help the economy because it actually hurts before it helps." Kelly views the Fed moving too dramatically as the "biggest known risk" for the US at this point in time. He points to pivotal events like September 11 and the COVID-19 pandemic which have contributed to recessions in the past. "I think people are worried about recession, but in the end, you've gotta gimme a reason why consumers stop spending, and I think it takes a lot to make American consumers stop spending." With the 2024 presidential election on the horizon, Kelly believes that the United States's debt isn't a cause for concern: "We absolutely need to deal with it, but what we've seen is the world has got a tremendous appetite for US debt. Last year, the Fed, the Treasury Department managed to raise $2.7 trillion of additional debt. And long-term interest rates didn't even go up. And so if they can do that, I think that we can actually handle big deficits for a while." Instead, Kelly worries about a potential trade war as both Democrats and Republicans have embraced tariffs. "Tariffs are terrible economic policy. They are a magical stagflation elixir. There are very few things that can actually cause the economy to slow and push up inflation at the same time. And tariffs can do that," he warns, noting that the policy could land the US in a recession. Following the Trump administration's trade war with China, Kelly notes that the US has moved away from globalization. For more expert insight and the latest market action, click here to watch this full episode of Asking for a Trend. This post was written by Melanie Riehl
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The Princess of Wales has returned to work with a private meeting at Windsor Castle, according to an entry on the court circular. The post from Tuesday reads: "The Princess of Wales, Joint Patron, The Royal Foundation of The Prince and Princess of Wales, this afternoon held an Early Years meeting at Windsor Castle." The court circular documents the engagements of the Royal Family, whether they are in public or behind palace walls.
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