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David Tepper’s big bet after the Fed rate cut was to buy ‘everything’ related to China
Billionaire hedge fund founder David Tepper said his big bet after the Federal Reserve’s rate cut was to buy Chinese stocks. “We got a little bit longer, more Chinese stocks,” Tepper told CNBC’s “Squawk Box” on Thursday. “And so, I have limits, historic limits. I probably said a long time ago, I don’t go above […]
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Value investor Bill Nygren looking outside of crowded megacap tech, adds cheap financial stock
Longtime value investor Bill Nygren warned that the popular benchmark S & P 500 is not as diversified as it used to be, and he is picking cheap stocks outside the dominant tech sector. Nygren, portfolio manager at Oakmark Funds for 40 years, said the technology sector has grown so powerful in the S & […]
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What Warren Buffett’s recent moves say – and don’t say – about today’s market
When the man who’s built the greatest fortune in history from investing alone – and whose preferred holding period is “forever” – becomes a resolute seller of two of the most widely held stocks in the world, the questions about what it means for the market and economy are inevitable. And so it is with […]
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DoubleLine’s Gundlach says the Fed needs to cut rates quickly, sees a half-point reduction Wednesday
DoubleLine Capital CEO Jeffrey Gundlach said Tuesday that the Federal Reserve needs to ease policy swiftly amid the current economic slowdown, seeing a half-point interest-rate reduction this week. “The Fed just follows the two-year Treasury and the two-year Treasury is down at 3.6% so the Fed needs to cut rates [by] 150 [basis points] pretty quickly,” Gundlach […]
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BlackRock’s Rick Rieder says a golden age for fixed income begins this week with the Fed rate cut
With the Federal Reserve expected to begin its rate-cutting cycle this week, investors should take advantage of this “golden age of fixed income” now, according to BlackRock’s Rick Rieder. He sees a shift coming in the market. “The world is changing,” said Rieder, the asset manager’s global chief investment officer of fixed income. “The equity […]
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Morgan Stanley cuts oil forecast, says traders are pricing in a demand slowdown similar to mild recession
After last week’s steep sell-off, oil prices suggest traders are pricing in a demand slowdown that is similar to a mild recession, according to a Morgan Stanley analysis. To be clear, Morgan Stanley’s economists anticipate a “soft landing” for the U.S. economy, saying it will exit 2024 “on fundamentally sound footing.” But there are some […]
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Bull market limps into 2-year birthday with soft economic landing in doubt and stock leaders failing
The bull market was born nearly two years ago and has been sustained ever since by a sole premise: Inflation is falling faster than the U.S. economy is slowing. The downslope of price pressures was set to meet the steady advance of GDP at a crossroads called Soft Landing, at which the Federal Reserve could […]
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The Fed now will focus on the employment part of its mission — and for good reason
Federal Reserve officials have made it clear that they are turning their attention from a focus squarely on inflation to at least an equal concern about unemployment, and the latest data shows their concern is well placed. Various indicators are pointing to a labor market that, if not in outright deterioration, is at least slowing. […]
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Two major investor groups love these stocks, according to Goldman Sachs
Hedge funds and mutual funds — two of the biggest investor groups — piled into a handful of the same stocks last quarter in anticipation of changing market leadership and higher volatility, according to Goldman Sachs. The Wall Street bank analyzed the holdings of 693 hedge funds with $2.8 trillion of gross equity positions as […]
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Markets are now wondering whether the Fed might cut by half a point in September
With Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell all but confirming that an interest rate cut is imminent, the market’s attention Friday quickly turned to when and by how much. Traders continued to price in a greater likelihood that the Fed will kick off what is expected to be a protracted easing campaign in September with a […]
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