Weekly Market Compass: What could help stocks scale the looming wall of worry? Kristina Hooper explains what’s supporting the wall and what catalyst could help.
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Weekly Market Compass: Is a major economic downturn inevitable? Kristina Hooper explains why she believes the global economy can surpass pessimistic expectations.
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Tapering by the U.S. Federal Reserve (Fed) could begin this year, but that doesn’t mean rate hikes must soon follow. Kristina Hooper analyzes Fed Chair Powell’s market-calming speech at Jackson Hole.
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Weekly Market Compass: As COVID spreads, U.S. consumer and investor sentiment have taken a hit. But mobility data remains solid, and boosters may help. What could this mean for U.S. Federal Reserve tapering? Read more from Kristina Hooper.
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Weekly Market Compass: The U.S. Federal Reserve (Fed) is talking a lot about tapering. Kristina Hooper believes this foreshadowing will help calm markets and avoid another “taper tantrum.”
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Weekly Market Compass: The U.S. Federal Reserve’s recent rate hike comments and the U.S. July jobs report concerned some market watchers, but Kristina Hooper believes these are positive developments.
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Surprise regulations on for-profit tutors led to a broad sell-off in Chinese equities — and attractive valuations for Chinese tech stocks, says Kristina Hooper.
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Weekly Market Compass: Kristina Hooper expects stocks to end the year higher than where they are now, but warns the road ahead could be a bumpy one.
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The re-opening of the U.S. economy post-pandemic has created a colossal burst of inflation, but Kristina Hooper expects it to last only temporarily. Find out why.
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Weekly Market Compass: What’s behind last week’s fall in the 10-year U.S. Treasury yield? Kristina Hooper explores four potential drivers.
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Weekly Market Compass: How might COVID variants impact global markets? Kristina Hooper assesses what we’re learning and how that news might impact investors.
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Market Weekly Compass: Our base case scenario for the rest of 2021 anticipates that economies will likely accelerate as they re-open, but expects any accompanying rise in inflation to be temporary.
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Market Weekly Compass: Markets were dismayed as the U.S. Federal Reserve (Fed) added two potential rate hikes to its 2023 forecast. But the Fed’s “dot plot” isn’t set in stone.
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Weekly Market Compass: Why did investors shrug off May’s U.S. inflation figures? Kristina Hooper details five possible reasons behind the subsequent drop in the 10-year U.S. Treasury yield.
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Market Weekly Compass: The recovery picture in the U.S. and Europe became increasingly clear thanks to several key reports issued over the last week.
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Weekly Market Compass: European retail sales, U.S. jobs, inflation, and tariffs. These are just a few of the things Kristina Hooper will be watching closely in June.
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Weekly Market Compass: Investors with a long time horizon might want to consider any significant tech sell-offs as buying opportunities.
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Weekly Market Compass: Last week, investors shuddered as data showed a big rise in prices in the U.S. and a greater-than-expected rise in prices in the eurozone. Stocks sold off, U.S. Treasury yields climbed higher, and market pundits obsessed over inflation. I feel it’s important at this juncture to remind investors of a few truths surrounding inflation and the U.S. Federal Reserve (Fed).
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Why was April’s U.S. jobs report so low? The reasons are nuanced, but I believe 2021 will be a good year for the U.S. economy.
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Weekly Market Compass: Sometimes good economic news isn’t good for stocks. Here’s why we’re seeing such a moment right now.
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