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Stock market news live: Stocks pare gains; Facebook tumbles on earnings
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How Powell will answer questions about coronavirus today: Morning Brief
Top news and what to watch in the markets on Wednesday, January 29, 2020.
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USD/JPY Fundamental Daily Forecast – Direction Dictated by Demand for Risk, Treasury Yields
The USD/JPY is likely to continue to be influenced by trader demand for risky assets and the direction of Treasury yields.
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Next Major Move in Financial Markets Will Be Dictated by WHO Decision
WHO decision should trigger a volatile response in financial markets and is likely to determine the direction of global stock markets over the near-term.
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Fed Expected to Hold Borrowing Costs Steady for Months
Policymakers are expected to signal that rates are “likely to remain appropriate” at their current level, as long as the economy doesn’t change significantly.
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Bridgewater: The role of the U.S. dollar 'is inevitably going to fall'
The U.S. dollar’s dominance in world financial markets is poised to erode over time as government officials seek to manipulate the strength of the currency for politically motivated purposes, according to the head of investment research at the world’s largest hedge fund.
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Carlyle’s Rubenstein on Trump: ‘Most presidents get re-elected’
A strong domestic economy could springboard President Donald Trump to a second term in the White House, said private equity leader David Rubenstein, founder and co-executive chairman of the The Carlyle Group.
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Fed Beige Book: US Economy Expands Modestly but Trade Concerns Linger
There was nothing in the Beige Book to suggest a change in Fed policy. Even with the signing of the trade deal between the United States and China on Wednesday, Fed policymakers are likely to maintain their wait and see approach.
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World stocks climb new peaks on trade deal, oil slips on demand worries
Key world equity indexes climbed to new records on Wednesday on hopes a U.S.-China trade deal will reduce harmful tensions, but oil prices slid on doubts the pact will spur world growth and boost crude demand. U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese Vice Premier Liu He signed a Phase 1 deal that will roll back some tariffs and see China boost purchases of U.S. goods and services, defusing a prolonged conflict between the world's two largest economies. Liu said in remarks at the White House that the United States and China need to step up cooperation, and that the deal benefits both countries and the world.
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Why some experts are saying disappointing wage growth is a good thing
The December jobs report highlighted disappointing wage growth data, showing average hourly earnings rose by only 2.9% over last year and dipped below 3% for the first time in more than a year.
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Jobs report: U.S. economy adds 145,000 jobs in December, unemployment rate holds at 3.5%
The U.S. labor market capped off 2019 with fewer job gains than expected and decelerating wage growth. The joblessness rate, however, held at a 50-year low.
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Stock Market Live Updates: Markets retrace losses amid Iran fears, close lower
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Politics, not trade, will drive markets in 2020: Goldman Sachs
Markets will be steered by a different force this year.
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US Equity Markets: After Dodging Risk in 2019, Investors Should Prepare for Heightened Volatility in 2020
Don’t be surprised if volatility remains at heightened levels throughout the year. Last year, stock market investors dodged a bullet. There were no 10% corrections in the U.S. indexes. That may change in a hurry this year with the impact of the escalation in U.S./Iran tensions.
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El-Erian: Markets believe two things very strongly right now
Even as uncertainties flare over when at how Iran will retaliate after a U.S. airstrike took out one of its top Iranian military commanders, markets have taken hold of two grounding principles, according to Mohamed El-Erian.
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What a US-Iran war could mean for the economy
An escalation of hostilities after a U.S. airstrike killed a top Iranian military commander could send shockwaves through the global economy, according to analysts.
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Here are the big stories that will drive the stock market in 2020
Most Wall Street firms believe stocks are going up this year.
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Why It’s So Hard to Forecast the Economy
(Bloomberg Opinion) -- The U.S. economy has experienced its slowest recovery from a recession in the post-World War II era, and the longer it lasts the more evidence there is that normal cyclical patterns are missing. And their absence means market participants shouldn’t rely on them to divine the economy’s future.Consider the myriad developments that are atypical, or even the reverse of normal economic and financial market behavior. The Federal Reserve shifted from easing credit to tightening following past downturns, with its target federal funds rate normally raised within a year or so of the recession’s trough, eventually precipitating the next economic contraction. This time, the central bank kept its policy rate at the recessionary low of essentially zero until Dec. 2015, 78 months into the recovery. And then, after nine quarter-percentage point increases, it reversed course early this year with three rate cuts.Far from the Fed’s normal worries about an overheating economy and inflation, the central bank frets that low and even declining consumer prices will spawn deflationary expectations. Buyers will hold off in anticipation of lower prices. Inventories and excess capacity will mount, forcing prices down. The price cuts confirm suspicions and purchases are delayed even further, sparking a deflationary spiral. The glaring example is Japan, with deflation in most years in the past two decades and tiny real GDP annual growth of 1.1%.Also, despite the plunge in 30-year fixed mortgage rates from 6.8% in July 2006 to the current 3.7%, rate-sensitive single-family housing starts have been muted. They fell from a 1.8 million annual rate in January 2006 to 350,000 in March 2009 as the subprime mortgage market collapsed, but have only recovered to 940,000.Mortgage lending criteria have tightened and prime-age first-time homebuyers don’t have the necessary downpayments. The net worth of households headed by 18-to-34-year-olds dropped from $120,000 in 2001 to $90,000 in 2016, a 44% decline adjusted for inflation. Also, they learned from the last recession that for the first time since the 1930s, house prices nationwide can fall.In past business recoveries, the U.S. household saving rate fell as consumer spending grew faster than incomes. In this expansion, it’s the reverse, leaping from 4.9% to 7.9% in November, retarding spending.Past postwar recessions spawned financial problems, but nothing like the 2008 crisis. The government’s reaction was equally severe with the enactment of the 2010 Dodd-Frank Act and other stringent regulations for financial institutions that are only now being slowly relaxed.In earlier business upswings, a drop in the unemployment rate of anything like the plunge from 10% in October 2009 to the current 3.5% would have spawned massive wage inflation. This time, real wages are barely growing.Globalization transported many high-paid manufacturing jobs to China. With the growing “on demand” economy—think Uber Technologies Inc. —many people trade flexibility in working hours for low pay. The payroll jobs that are being created are mostly in low-wage sectors such as retailing and leisure & hospitality.For years, foreign policy was bipartisan and expanding trade was considered highly desirable. Now, globalists have been overcome by protectionists, spurred by voters upset over stagnant purchasing power and rising income and asset inequality in G-7 countries. Trump’s 2016 election along with the U.K.’s “Brexit” from the European Union are among the results. Then there’s also the demise of global trade deals, which are being replaced by bilateral agreements or no pacts at all.The U.S.-China trade dispute will no doubt persist because China, with a declining labor force as a result of its earlier one child-per-couple policy, needs Western technologies to grow and achieve its worldwide leadership ambitions. But the U.S. is opposed to the technology transfers China wants.The dollar’s slide from 1985 until 2007 encouraged U.S. exports, curbed imports and gave U.S. multinationals currency-related boosts to profits. Since then, the dollar index has rallied 33% amid a global demand for haven assets. And it should continue to, given the relatively faster growth of the U.S. economy, its huge, free and open financial markets and the lack of meaningful substitutes for the greenback.Disinflation has reigned since 1980, but real interest rates were positive until the last decade. But for 10 years now, real 10-year Treasury note yields have been flat at zero (see my Nov. 19, 2018 column, “Zero Real Yields Are Tripping Up Investors”). This and the flat yield curve have pushed state pension funds and other investors far out on the risk curve in search of real returns, bidding up stocks to vulnerable levels.Earlier, the Fed was run by Ph.D. economists who clung to widely-held theories even though they didn’t work. Fed Chairman Jerome Powell is proving to be much more practical, backing away from rigid Fed policies such as the 2% inflation target and a zero-bound policy rate as well as unsuccessful forward guidance.In this different economic climate, it’s hard to time the end of the current recovery. Still, it will end, due either to Fed overtightening or a financial crisis, like the 2000 dot-com blow-off or the 2007-2009 subprime mortgage collapse. In the current excess supply-savings glut-deflationary world, it’s likely a recession will unfold due to a shock before the Fed overtightens.No financial crises are in sight, but there are possibilities such as excess debt in China and among U.S. businesses, a trade war escalation, consumer retrenchment resulting in widespread deflation, and disappointing corporate profits measured against sky-high stock prices. Watch for specific imbalances, not typical past patterns.To contact the author of this story: Gary Shilling at agshilling@bloomberg.netTo contact the editor responsible for this story: Robert Burgess at bburgess@bloomberg.netThis column does not necessarily reflect the opinion of the editorial board or Bloomberg LP and its owners.A. Gary Shilling is president of A. Gary Shilling & Co., a New Jersey consultancy, a Registered Investment Advisor and author of “The Age of Deleveraging: Investment Strategies for a Decade of Slow Growth and Deflation.” Some portfolios he manages invest in currencies and commodities. For more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com/opinion©2020 Bloomberg L.P.
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Stock Market Live Updates: No Santa Claus rally yet
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Weekly jobless claims – What to know in markets Thursday
As traders return from Wednesday’s market closure for Christmas, two pieces of economic data will be in focus.
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Holiday-shortened session – What to know in markets Tuesday
Tuesday’s drought of economic reports and corporate earnings releases will leave investors with little new data to digest as hopes run high for an end-of-year rally to come through.
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Personal consumption expenditures – What to know in markets Friday
The Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) will release its monthly report on personal consumption expenditures (PCE) at 8:30 a.m. ET Friday, which will likely show just a mild uptick in underlying prices.
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Stock Market Live Updates: S&P 500 jumps above 3200, Stocks end higher as markets shrug off impeachment
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Stock market news: December 19, 2019
U.S. stocks rose as financial markets largely shrugged off the U.S. House of Representatives’ votes to impeach President Donald Trump.
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Stock Market 2020: Most experts predict gains, some expect losses
With the end of the year and the decade fast-approaching, Wall Street strategists have begun to deliver their expectations about where the stock market will close out 2020.
