Fed Interest Rate

Investors anticipate the release of critical labor market data between Wednesday and Friday, heightening their expectations for aggressive rate cuts by the Federal Reserve. Expectations for a 50-basis-point rate cut at the Sept. 18 Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting slightly increased...

The Past Week, In A Nutshell What Happened: Last week ended negative on relative weakness in the technology sector. Remember This: “While valuations have hinted to overstretched markets in the past, it’s tough to say where stocks should be trading right now. We just witnessed the...

Monday, August 24, 2015, was a rough day for the U.S. equity market, which shed $1.2 trillion of market value at its worst moments. The S&P 500 index was the closest it has been in recent memory to setting off a market-wide circuit breaker that would have ceased trading for 15 minutes. One year...