Mike Loewengart

U.S. producer prices jumped more than economists had expected last month despite the Federal Reserve's aggressive response to runaway inflation.  What Happened:  The producer price index (PPI) increased 0.4% in September, the U.S. Bureau of Labor...

The SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (NYSE: SPY) traded lower Thursday after the weekly U.S. jobs report from the Labor Department revealed a surprise increase in the number of initial jobless claims. On Thursday morning, the Labor Department reported 870,000 initial jobless claims for the week...

The current bull market turned nine years old Friday, and it seems appropriate to take a look back and see how far stocks have come since the S&P 500 hit a Financial Crisis low of 676.53 on March 9, 2009. The S&P itself has more than tripled in value, up about 207 percent in those six years...

A recent survey from Raymond James found that a surprising number of American households are supporting more than just children. In July, Raymond James conducted a survey of 1,000 American adults between the ages of 45 and 64 and found that more than one out of four American households is...

Amid chatter surrounding the Federal Reserve meeting last Wednesday, E*TRADE Financial Corp (NASDAQ: ETFC) vice president of investment strategy, Mike Loewengart, shared with Benzinga some important tidbits to keep in mind. The chatter surrounding Fed rate hikes have been increasingly abuzz...