Inflation is hot just like the job market, but the March jobs report showed there aren’t a lot of jobs where wage growth is standing up to heated prices. That is, with some exceptions — which may hint a lot about where consumer demand is going as pandemic concerns fade. In a healthy-looking jobs report […]
Nielsen Holdings NLSN 20.31% PLC agreed to sell itself to a group of private-equity firms in a deal that values the media-measurement company at around $10 billion, resurrecting a deal after talks fell apart last week. A consortium led by Elliott Management Corp.’s private-equity arm and Brookfield Asset Management Inc. agreed to pay $28 a […]
What better time to invest in financials than at a time with rampant inflation and a Federal Reserve promising 11 rate hikes over the next two years? That’s not the view at Deuterium Capital, which is expecting a sharp slowdown in the economy. The Deuterium Global Dynamic Allocation Fund is mostly driven by a macroeconomic […]
Federal Reserve Governor Christopher Waller has no doubt about how competitive today’s housing market is. “Trust me, I know it is red hot because I am trying to buy a house here in Washington and the market is crazy,” Waller said in a speech at a housing conference. But even as home and rental prices […]
The popular spring home-buying season is just ramping up. But one analyst is warning that it could be a bust. Ian Shepherdson, chief economist and founder of research consulting firm Pantheon Macroeconomics, is predicting a dramatic fall in the pace of home sales this year. In a research note, he projected that existing-home sales will […]
The foreclosure uptick indicates that the economic — and especially employment recovery — is not complete, an expert says. Getty Images In January there was a seven-fold increase in foreclosure starts as compared to December, with roughly 33,000 loans referred to foreclosure, according to a report from mortgage data and analytics company Black Knight. What’s […]
The price action has been nothing short of breathtaking — oil has swung by $55 a barrel this year. On Thursday alone, it surged by more than 7% after peace negotiations stalled in Ukraine and billionaire Warren Buffett boosted his stake in a high-flying US oil company. Early on March 17, West Texas crude oil […]
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