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‘Oracle of Wall Street’ says boomers control the housing market, and their enormous equity will keep them in place — ‘There will be no quick fixes’

Baby boomers now own a majority of U.S. homes and have the financial means to stay where they are, keeping the housing market stuck for the foreseeable future, according to top Wall Street analyst Meredith Whitney. The CEO of Meredith Whitney Advisory Group, whose prediction of the Great Financial Crisis earned her the moniker “Oracle of Wall Street,”…

Dow, S&P 500, Nasdaq futures waver after another record-setting day on Wall Street

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US stock futures wavered after another record-setting day on Wall Street. Futures attached to the Dow Jones Industrial Average (YM=F), the benchmark S&P 500 (ES=F), and the tech-heavy Nasdaq 100 (NQ=F) slipped about 0.1%. On Monday, stocks jumped, clinching their third straight day of record closes. The tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite (^IXIC) led gains after Nvidia…

Trump H-1B visa tech foreign governments

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U.S. President Donald Trump speaks as he sits next to a “Trump Gold Card” sign, in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., Sept. 19, 2025. Ken Cedeno | Reuters Major technology companies and foreign governments are rushing to respond after President Donald Trump late Friday announced plans to impose a…

Stock market records, Fed rate cut, trades, and new iPhones

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The stock market reached records again this week, propelled by the Federal Reserve’s decision to cut interest rates for the first time since last December. The S & P 500 and Nasdaq hit a number of all-time closing highs this week, one as recently as Friday, after the Fed announced a quarter-point reduction to the…

Markets may judge next week if Fed is making the right move cutting rates

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Next week’s inflation data could confirm whether or not the Federal Reserve is making the right move in cutting interest rates this fall. The personal consumption expenditures price index is widely known as the Fed’s preferred inflation measure, and next Friday economists expect the August edition will show that inflation is actually headed higher. That…

Wall Street ‘Nirvana’ Nears as Fed Fuels 2021-Style Risk Rally

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(Bloomberg) — The Federal Reserve poured fresh fuel on the Wall Street rally this week, pushing September toward the broadest cross-asset surge since the 2021 frenzy — with fear in retreat and greed unleashed. Most Read from Bloomberg An interest-rate cut meant to cushion the weakening labor market might once have sparked caution. Instead, it…

Jim Cramer’s rapid fire update on all 31 Investing Club stocks

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Jim Cramer and Jeff Marks, the Club’s director of portfolio analysis, on Thursday ran through all 31 portfolio holdings during the September Monthly Meeting. The two went over the best ways to play the stock market in the last months of 2025 while considering factors like the Federal Reserve’s monetary policy decisions, President Trump’s tariff…

Hong Kong stocks slip as Fed’s priced-in rate cut fails to excite investors

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Hong Kong stocks wavered on Thursday, tracking Wall Street’s muted finish, after the Federal Reserve signalled a conservative approach on the pace of future easing. The Hang Seng Index slipped 0.2 per cent to 26,860.61 as of noon trading break, after jumping as much as 0.6 per cent to top 27,000 points. The Hang Seng…

Wall Street edges back from its record heights

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NEW YORK — U.S. stocks edged back from their record heights Tuesday as the countdown ticked toward what Wall Street expects will be the first cut of the year to interest rates by the Federal Reserve. The Standard & Poor’s 500 index fell 0.1% from its latest all-time high. The Dow Jones industrial average dropped 0.3%, while…

Investors head into the Fed decision at their most bullish since February

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Sentiment is high heading into the Federal Reserve decision. Investors are at their most bullish since February, according to the latest global fund manager survey released Tuesday from Bank of America Securities. The Wall Street firm said the survey’s broadest sentiment measure — which was calculated based on a mix of growth expectations, cash levels…