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This is nightmare fuel for a historically expensive stock market that had already priced in additional rate cuts.
Stocks looked set to fall again on Monday as investors continued to worry about higher inflation, with the U.S. and Iran seemingly making no progress in their ongoing peace talks. The three major indexes tumbled on Friday, dragged down by soaring U.S. Treasury yields. The lack of a peace deal to end the conflict in the Middle East has caused investors to fret about a flare-up in inflation, with shipping through the Strait of Hormuz still disrupted.
Warsh is walking a tightrope as he tries to influence Fed policy.
Paring down the central bank's balance sheet, or doing nothing at all, poses potentially dire consequences for the stock market.
Jerome Powell's successor and the Chicago Fed president foresee wildly different interest rate outcomes from the evolution of AI.
Investors step into the week after a Friday in the red, spurred by a stable of geopolitical uncertainties post Trump-Xi summit, rising bond yields, and sticky inflation.
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Kevin Warsh is taking the reins at the Federal Reserve.
It's incredibly rare when a sitting Fed chair interjects their opinion on stock valuations -- and when this happens, it shouldn't be ignored.
Energy prices in the United States just did something violent. The PCE energy index jumped 11.56% month-over-month in March 2026, which pushed headline inflation back up to 3.5% year-over-year after a year of relative calm. West Texas Intermediate ripped from around $60 a barrel in January to over $100 today. If you have spent the ... Gold Or Oil? This ETF Decides For You When Inflation Strikes
<body><p>STORY: Wall Street's main indexes retreated from AI-fueled record highs on Friday, with the Dow dropping 1%, the S&P 500 shedding one-and-a-quarter percent and the Nasdaq declining more than one-and-a-half percent.</p><p>Stocks moved lower as a jump in benchmark Treasury yields reflected surging energy prices and concerns about long-term inflation.</p><p>Leah Bennett is chief investment strategist at Concurrent Investment Advisors.</p><p>“Equities are trading down today primarily, I think, because people are disappointed not to see any sort of movement between Trump and Xi coming out of the summit regarding the conflict in the Middle East. So, oil is up another 4% today. We obviously saw an impact on the CPI (Consumer Price Index) and the PPI (Producer Price Index). And the longer that oil prices stay up, the longer we're going to have rising inflation. And this is the first time we've really seen the ten-year inflation expectations cross 2.5%. And historically, that's been very consistent with a period where the Fed had to increase interest rates.”</p><p>Friday marks Jerome Powell's last day as U.S. Federal Reserve chair. Incoming Chair Kevin Warsh is saddled with the potential need for a rate hike if a protracted Iran war leads to sticky inflation.</p><p>Among individual stock moves, the AI rally largely stalled, with Nvidia losing nearly 4.5%, AMD shedding more than 5.5% and Intel dropping more than 6%.</p><p>On the flip side, shares of Microsoft rose 3% following the disclosure of a new position in the company taken by Bill Ackman's hedge fund Pershing Square.</p><p>And shares of Ford slid about 7.5%, retreating from a near 21% surge over the last two sessions on optimism over the automaker's energy storage business.</p></body>
The Nasdaq Composite and the S&P 500 fell from record highs as inflation concerns pushed Treasury yi
Global stocks slumped and oil prices rose Friday with worries about sustained inflation driving up bond yields with no conclusion to the Iran war in sight."Today the catalyst is really the rally in bond yields, bond markets are under pressure as oil prices rise.
The yield on the 10-year Treasury climbed to nearly 4.6% Friday, its highest level in more than a year.
By Amanda Cooper and Karen Brettell LONDON/NEW YORK, May 15 (Reuters) - Bond markets are bracing for interest-rate pain in a way they haven't in decades, as investors assess the economic costs of the
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Japan and the U.K. have more to do with today's sell-off than the end of Powell's rein at the Fed.
By Lewis Krauskopf NEW YORK, May 15 (Reuters) - Two themes critical to the U.S. stock market -- the artificial intelligence boom and inflation-pressured consumer spending -- will come under the
May 15 (Reuters) - Futures tracking the Nasdaq and the S&P 500 tumbled more than 1% on Friday, with an AI-driven rally in U.S. stocks poised to stall, as Treasury yields jumped on concerns about
The central bank may be transforming from Wall Street's foundation to a liability before our eyes.
Stocks looked set to fall on Friday as investors fretted about soaring Treasury yields and President Donald Trump’s summit with China's leader Xi Jinping concluded without any meaningful breakthrough on trade. “For some time, analysts have been puzzled by equity markets’ resilience in the face of rising bond yields and clear inflationary pressures,” said Kathleen Brooks, research director at the foreign-exchange brokerage XTB. “Today we may see the pressure of rising bond yields start to weigh on equities, and futures prices suggest that U.S. indices will pull back from record highs later today and could close the week on a dampener.”
By Stella Qiu SYDNEY, May 15 (Reuters) - Asian shares dived on Friday as investor euphoria over tech stocks gave way to inflation fears that saw Treasury yields spike to one-year highs and rising bets
By Stella Qiu SYDNEY, May 15 (Reuters) - Asian shares came under pressure on Friday as investor euphoria over tech stocks gave way to inflation fears that saw Treasury yields spike to one-year highs
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