... will raise interest rates yet again, so no midsummer slowdown anytime soon.
Additionally, we keep edging closer to the date when Schwab fully absorbs the custodian I’ve been using for nearly ten years, ...
... “Periods” could be months or years and the “Periodic Deposit” could be your monthly or annualized cash flow. Keep the interest rate reasonable but you can play with it to see how higher and lower rates ...
... performance so far this year amid fears of higher interest rates and consternation about the federal government potentially defaulting on its debt. In short, it was another eventful quarter for investors ...
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But before we get into that, a few people have asked about this week’s Fed meeting and whether our benevolent central bankers are likely to raise interest rates again. We’ll find out tomorrow, but the ...
... and peaking at over 9% a year ago illustrates the first point and, fortunately, with the debt ceiling deal we won’t have to worry about the second point for a while.
There’s a lot more to MMT and Kelton ...
... Journal is often the go-to source for this type of data, but Bankrate is free and a little more user friendly.
In general, mortgage refinance rates are a tad higher than rates to buy a home, but both ...
... the Fed, interest rates and recession risk. All this is playing out at the same time and demands our attention.
You’ve likely been wondering about these issues and many of you have been asking, so here ...
... even years. It’s part of the business model for many subscription-based companies. The higher standard rates also subsidize the promo rate for new subscribers and those, like me, who keep asking for it. ...
Recent weeks have seen a whipsawing of expectations for the economy and the path of interest rates. The yield on the 10yr Treasury, a key benchmark, rose to over 4% a few times and interest rates in general ...
... and for how long the Fed would keep raising interest rates, mixed with bank failures during March, the news cycle played havoc with investor sentiment throughout the quarter.
Across markets, tech stocks ...
... place.
So, the problems of CS seem only loosely connected to the regional bank news we’ve been seeing here at home. But news of bank failures comes on the back of inflation and rising interest rates, ...
... rates were low. They didn’t diversify very well and got caught by rising rates and falling bond prices like everyone else last year. Then good ‘ol Mr. Murphy showed up with a cash emergency (an old-fashioned ...
Some years ago I did a short series of posts defining some key finance and investing terms. Looking back I don’t see that we discussed a critical concept, especially these days with rising interest rates: ...
... increased. The Federal Reserve (Fed), working to fight persistent high inflation, has raised rates at the most aggressive pace in decades and to the highest level since the Great Financial Crisis. This, ...
... be as bad as some predict.
From Bespoke but edited for brevity…
Unlike all other developed countries, the United States operates under a statutory debt cap. After Congress authorizes spending, Treasury ...
... inflation, the likelihood of recession, and how Fed policy could impact it all. If the Fed keeps raising rates too much too quickly a recession is likely because money costs a lot more to borrow, and that ...
... return over a longer period of time is likely to be less, perhaps substantially less, than current rates. The reason is that I Bond interest is a blend of a tiny, fixed rate and a rate that adjusts every ...
... and the SECURE Act 2.0 has added more complexity, but also more opportunity. We’ll delve into retirement accounts and savings rates, Roth conversions, assessing the impact of extra income and timing of ...
... as the Consumer Price Index (the generally accepted measure of inflation within the economy) changes. So it makes sense that as inflation was spiking, so would the rates on I Bonds, reaching as high as ...
... to rising interest rates. Typical bonds in your portfolio are of medium duration and were down about 13% last year. So it helped that we kept our maturities and duration shorter, often below the market ...