Why stocks could plunge 15% if the Federal Reserve doesn't do one thing

Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell better deliver Mr. Market his 100-pound slab of beef on Wednesday, or else. That beef should be of the high-end wagyu variety — a mixture of a strongly dovish press release on Fed decision day (aka removal of the word “patient”) followed by an equally dovish press conference with reporters. After all, it's clearly what a market seemingly back to going up each day is craving right now.

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  Gold inches lower as trade optimism, dovish ECB lift equities

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  EUR/USD Price Forecast – Euro all over the place

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Does Disney Stock Get to $200 in 2, 4 or 6 Years?

Disney Stock Gets to $200 in 2 Years First of all, were DIS stock to get to $200 in 24 months, it would have taken nearly six-and-a-half years to do so from February 2015. That's almost three times as long as it took to get to $100. Given the time elapsed between December 2012 and June 2021, Disney at that point would be a much larger company.

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  Disney World Just Upped The Cost Of An Annual Pass For Both The General Public And Florida Residents

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  Disney resorts get a Lyft with rideshare partnership

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AMD Reclaims Buy Point

Today was a strong day for chip stocks as Advanced Micro Devices reclaims its buy point.

• AMD's stock surges toward first gain in 6 days amid broad chip-sector rally

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  Why AMD's Latest Win Over NVIDIA Should Power Its Stock Higher

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Risk Appetite Returns as the Markets Shift Focus to the FED

Through the session, the focus will also have been on today's FED monetary policy decision and FOMC economic projections. While few are expecting the FED to make a move today, a September rate is priced in. For the Kiwi Dollar The current account deficit narrowed from NZ$10.97bn to NZ$10.62bn, year-on-year.

This New York-listed Chinese electric carmaker’s flagship vehicle keeps catching fire

Even though electric vehicles are less likely to catch fire than gasoline-powered cars, cases of EVs bursting into flames are nonetheless unsettling—especially when they happen to prominent companies like California carmaker Tesla and New York-listed Chinese car brand NIO. NIO's flagship battery sports utility vehicle ES8 caught fire in China's central Wuhan city on Friday afternoon (June 14), local newspaper Chutian Metropolis Daily (link in Chinese) reported. A witness at the scene told the newspaper he saw black smoke and fire coming from the seven-seater's chassis, while firefighters said there was a small explosion when they tried to put out the fire.

Alibaba Stock Split: What BABA Investors Should Know About the 1-for-8 Proposal

Here's what investors in Alibaba (NYSE:BABA) need to know about the stock split proposal. The Alibaba stock split would have the company dividing one share into eight shares. The company says that it will be holding a vote on the Alibaba stock split proposal during its annual shareholders meeting.

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  The Hong Kong Alibaba Stock Listing Shows Globalization’s Failure

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  What Alibaba Hopes to Achieve with Its Stock Split

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Boeing Stuns Paris Air Show With Huge 737 Max Order; Even Ethiopian Air Warms Up

Boeing received a letter of intent for 200 737 Max jets at the Paris Air Show, despite the continued worldwide grounding, while Airbus announced more orders for its new A321XLR jet. Boeing, Airbus Orders The 200-plane letter of intent from the International Airlines Group, which is the parent of Aer Lingus, British Airways, Iberia, Vueling and LEVEL, is worth $24 billion at list prices. "We have every confidence in Boeing and expect that the aircraft will make a successful return to service in the coming months having received approval from the regulators," IAG CEO Willie Walsh said.

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  Boeing lands a major order for the 737 MAX

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  British Airways' parent company signals intent to buy 200 Boeing 737 Max

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7 Value Stocks to Buy for the Second Half

Value stocks are so out of fashion at the moment that despite being cheaper than they've been in the past 30 years, some experts suggest they're still not the stocks to buy. “We could've had this story 10 years ago and talked about the 20-year anniversary of it being a bad market for value,” Dave Nadig, managing director of ETF.com, said recently on CNBC. Another expert who appeared on the same CNBC show as Nadig suggested that you should only buy value stocks heading into a recession or in the first year coming out of one.

The World Now Has Three People Worth More Than $100 Billion Each

Bernard Arnault, Europe's richest person, just joined Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates in the world's most exclusive wealth club with a fortune of at least $100 billion. Arnault, chairman of LVMH, entered the ranks of centibillionaires Tuesday as the luxury-goods maker climbed 2.9% to a record 368.80 euros a share. His net worth has increased almost $32 billion this year, the most on the 500-member Bloomberg Billionaires Index.

I’m a 29-Year-Old With $235k in Student Debt. I’ll Never Pay It Back.

The first $120,000 came with a bachelor's degree from my state school. Without income driven repayment, the minimum payment amount for my federal student debt would be around $1,000. One in four American adults has student debt.

China Is Creating Its Own 'Entity List' to Avenge Huawei and Punish Foreign Firms

The cracks in Huawei Technologies are starting to show. Speaking to an audience gathered at the company's headquarters in Shenzhen on Monday, Huawei founder and CEO Ren Zhengfei revealed that action taken against the Chinese telecom manufacturer by the U.S. had forced Huawei to cut its projected annual revenue from $120 billion to $100 billion—pretty much flat with last year. As Huawei tailspins—a victim of the U.S.-China trade war—Beijing is gearing up to exact revenge on U.S. companies.

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  The US ban on Huawei will cost the company $30 billion in lost sales

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  Why US Chip Companies Are Lobbying to Ease the Huawei Ban

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10 Tech Stocks to Buy Now for 2025

Get a free GOOGL Stock Research Report. Nvidia (NVDA) Nvidia (NASDAQ:NVDA) is pushing the boundaries of technology and this should pay off over the years to come. Even though Nvidia is suffering over the last six months, the long-term picture remains very compelling making this one of the top stocks to buy and hold.

Sen. Tillis Says Fed Made Mistake in December, Defers to Trump on Powell Demotion

Sen. Thom Tillis, a North Carolina Republican, comments on the outlook for Federal Reserve monetary policy during an interview with Bloomberg's David Westin on "Balance of Power."

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  Trump Asked White House Lawyers for Options on Removing Powell

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  Federal Reserve may lose 'patience' on Wednesday

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Nio Stock Is Basically a Lottery Ticket at This Point

Following Friday's close of $2.42, one share of Nio stock barely costs more than a single Powerball ticket and there is plenty of debate regarding which might be the better investment. There could be more pain ahead for Nio stock because, although Nio stock price has been plummeting, sell-side analysts have been slow to trim their price targets on the stock. The average analyst price target on Nio stock is $7.64, or about triple where the shares trade now.

China Is Buying Iranian LPG Despite Sanctions, Ship-Tracking Shows

LPG tanker Sea Dolphin sailed into the Persian Gulf between Iran and Qatar with empty tanks on May 17, and then turned off its beacon, Kpler said in a June 6 note. It turned the locator back on May 26, indicating its tanks were now full, and headed toward the Maldives, where it again went dark. Another ship, the Pacific Yantai, loaded its tanks near where the Sea Dolphin had stopped, and then set sail toward China, according to Kpler.

How a 25-year-old hairstylist drives a six-figure Mercedes

They pay me to post regularly about the brand and what we use in the salon,” Pardoe said. Pardoe expects that his income will be higher in 2019, nearing around $320,000 this year, as he has signed a new Instagram sponsorship where he is paid regularly to promote hair extension products and offer educational tips as well to hairstylists. He questions the work ethic of millennials “It's not my job to build your clientele,” Pardoe often tells the millennials working in the salon.

Electric dreams in danger as funding dwindles for China's Tesla challengers

HONG KONG/BEIJING (Reuters) - Last year, Wei Qing and his private equity investment team visited more than 20 Chinese electric vehicle manufacturing startups. "There are too many uncertainties from when a company tells a story in the early stage, to when it produces a sample car and raises funds, to the eventual mass production," said Wei, managing director at Shanghai-based Sailing Capital. Wei, who declined to name the EV makers his team visited, said he thinks only a few of them will survive.

One-quarter of the stock market’s 2019 gains come from just five stocks

Roughly one-quarter of the S&P 500's (^GSPC) 15% gain so far this year comes from five high-profile stocks: Microsoft (MSFT), Apple (AAPL), Amazon (AMZN), Alphabet (GOOGL) and Facebook (FB). That's the assessment from Nick Colas, co-founder of DataTrek Research, who ran the numbers: Microsoft: 1.3 points Apple: 0.8 points Amazon: 0.8 points Alphabet: 0.1 points Facebook: 0.8 points That results in a grand total of 3.8 points of the S&P 500's 15.3% gain year-to-date. Without these five stocks, the S&P 500 would be up 11.5%.

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  Citigroup (C) Stock Sinks As Market Gains: What You Should Know

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  Abbott (ABT) Outpaces Stock Market Gains: What You Should Know

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U.S. Steel, Darling of Trump's Tariffs, Plans to Idle Plants

Starting in 2018, U.S. President Donald Trump has been touting the restorative value of the tariffs his administration imposed on imports that March. The decision comes amid falling steel prices in the U.S. due to worries of a glut from new capacity planned for the coming years. Major U.S. producers that had announced expansions or restarts include Nucor Corp., Steel Dynamics Inc., Commercial Metals Co., as well as U.S. Steel.

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  Businesses head to DC to make their case against tariffs

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  Trump threatens tariffs back on the table if Mexico doesn't enforce its part of the deal

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Earnings Will Be Huge for Canopy Growth and Marijuana Stocks

Marijuana stocks seem a bit wobbly at the moment and Canopy Growth (NYSE:CGC) is no exception. The CGC stock price hasn't tanked, to be sure. Canopy Growth earnings on Thursday will provide an opportunity to reverse the recent trend.

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  Amid A Pot Stock Boom, I Have Misgivings About Aurora Cannabis Stock

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  Canopy Growth’s 4Q Earnings: Profitability Expectations

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Federal Reserve may lose 'patience' on Wednesday

Will the Federal Reserve message that it is no longer “patient” at the conclusion of its Federal Open Market Committee meeting on Wednesday? The semantics behind the word “patient” have been dissected since Fed Chairman Jerome Powell first deployed the word in the Fed's January 31 meeting, when policymakers flipped dovish and softened their stance on wanting to raise interest rates to the economy's “neutral” level. Powell's “pause” hinted that the Fed was still leaving rate hikes on the table.

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  Did the Markets Break Jerome Powell? We’re About to Find Out

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  Gold Price Prediction – Gold Trades Sideways Ahead of Central Bank Decisions

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