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In the event of a post-Fed stock market selloff, money manager Matt Shapiro is looking to purchase stocks in Netflix, Berkshire Hathaway, and Deere. With all of its advantages, would the S&P 500 SPX be able to weather the final two weeks of the quarter without suffering a significant decline? “The Nasdaq has risen 50% off its lows in 5 months, and the S&P 500 36%: it’s time to prepare for pullbacks,” says Matt Shapiro, a former Chicago-based options trader who heads MWS Capital’s $183 million portfolio for high-net-worth clients. Although it’s still a “great time to be an investor,”…

GE Aerospace’s stock has staged a 76% rally this year – one that ranks No. 9 in the S&P 500. For the first time in 25 years, GE Aerospace’s stock has closed at an all-time high, in a reflection of the company’s major turnaround and its ability to capitalize on the booming defense and airline markets. At the closing bell, GE Aerospace’s stock (GE) ended at $292.97 a share with a gain of $6.19 a share, or 2.16% on the day’s trading. It’s the first first new high for GE shares (GE) since a $287.15 close achieved in August 2000…

Robert Redford at Park City, Utah’s 2020 Sundance Film Festival. Hollywood was changed in many ways by Robert Redford. Although the actor, who passed away on Tuesday at the age of 89, produced some of the most well-known and influential films of the second half of the 20th century, his support of the Sundance Film Festival might have had a longer-lasting impact on Hollywood’s commercial practices. What began as an attempt to draw film projects to Utah quickly turned a snow-covered area of the state into a hub for American filmmaking, the American equivalent of the Cannes Film Festival, and…

A vote on Stephen Miran, Trump’s candidate for the Federal Reserve, puts some clarity ahead of this week’s Fed meeting. This week’s Fed meeting, which is likely to result in a rate cut, was somewhat resolved Monday when the Republican-controlled Senate voted in favor of Stephen Miran, President Donald Trump’s candidate for governor of the Federal Reserve. The 48-47 vote makes it possible for Miran to participate in the Fed’s rate-setting vote, which will be announced at 2:00 PM Eastern on Wednesday. Miran was confirmed by the Senate in just eight days following his nomination, which was an exceptionally quick…

Fed Governor Lisa Cook has filed a lawsuit to stop President Donald Trump from firing her. In loan filings and other documents, Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook allegedly listed a condominium unit she bought in 2021 as a “vacation” and “second” residence. This undermined the Trump administration’s allegation that Cook committed mortgage fraud, which the president used as justification to remove Cook from the Fed’s Board of Governors. Cook told the lender that the Atlanta house would be a “vacation home,” not her regular residence, according to a May 2021 loan estimate that a credit union sent her, Reuters reported…

President Donald Trump has consistently criticized Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell for lowering interest rates. Experts predict that Fed Chair Jerome Powell will need to rally a narrow majority of his colleagues to back a 25 basis point interest rate cut on Wednesday due to mounting concerns about the state of the economy. However, the more important question surrounding the meeting is what will happen next, given the central bank’s upheaval and the uncertainties surrounding the future of inflation and the labor market. Powell is probably going to encounter an unprecedented degree of internal resistance. Due to the deteriorating labor…

The New York Times Building is seen on Tuesday in New York. President Donald Trump has filed a $15 billion defamation lawsuit against the newspaper and some of its reporters. President Donald Trump’s latest move against media companies is a $15 billion lawsuit against the New York Times, alleging defamation. It’s “par for the course” for Trump, as he has been focused on “driving [media companies] into bankruptcy or silencing them through intimidation,” said Jane Kirtley, a director of the University of Minnesota’s Silha Center for the Study of Media Ethics and Law. At the same time, the lawsuit, which…

Wednesday’s interest rate decision by the Federal Reserve could be one of the most exciting ones the central bank has made in a long time. It could change what’s called the “front end” of the $27.6-trillion Treasury market. The 2-year note and short-term Treasury bills due in less than a year make up the front end. That’s why buyers and traders pay attention to the yields on these government bonds: they often show how interest rates are likely to move. FactSet data shows that as of Tuesday, the yields on 1-month T-bills TMUBMUSD01M 4.909% and 6-month T-bills TMUBMUSD06M 4.541% were…

Regards, Some of my work, This is still the house we’re looking for after selling ours in 2022. We rent a house and store our things, which are both big monthly costs. Our over-a-million-dollar savings and the money from the sale are in high-yield money-market accounts that have grown by 5.3% and a CD that has grown by 5.4%. When the Federal Reserve lowers interest rates, I’m mostly worried that the monthly gains from high-interest money-market accounts will go down. That could mean that we spend more money than we earn, which would be bad for our budget. How should…

Gold has reached new highs this year and deserves attention. But so does silver, its sister metal, which has done better than gold so far this year and may be getting ready for a big rally that will send prices to all-time highs. “Investors and consumers who were interested in gold are now also interested in silver,” said Michael Cuggino, head and portfolio manager of the Permanent Portfolio Family of Funds. He said that the situation is bullish for both metals because interest rates are going down, there is uncertainty around the world, and the U.S. dollar is getting weaker.…