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Text size Japan has had to intervene to support the sliding yen for the first time since 1998, even as it tries to keep its interest rates low. Akio Kon/Bloomberg The world has been hooked on cheap money for years. Now we’re witnessing what withdrawal looks like. Lifting interest rates …

Text size Market chaos has hit stocks, bonds, commodities, currencies, and futures. It’s hard to see it ending soon. Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images It’s a bumpy, volatile, no good, very bad market out there. Stocks, bonds, commodities, currencies, and futures have been moving violently from day to day—and there’s probably …

Illustration by Elias Stein Text size The case for active management—stock picking—holds that funds should outperform indexes when markets crumble. Alas, that hasn’t occurred this time. Morningstar research found that only 40% of nearly 3,000 active funds outperformed their average passive peer over the 12 months through June. That rate …

Text size Investors are staring at a ‘lost decade.” NYSE After four decades of incredible performance, the stock market could be at the beginning of a lost decade. Yes, the S&P 500 has dropped 2.5% on Friday, and is down 23% in 2022. But it’s impossible to overstate just how …

Robert Dietz National Association of Home Builders Many aspiring homebuyers are watching as home prices begin to fall and wondering: What do I need to know about the housing market now?  (See the lowest mortgage rates you may qualify for here.) So we asked Robert Dietz these questions. Since joining …

Global government-bond markets are stuck in what BofA Securities strategists are calling one of their greatest bear markets ever — which, in turn, is threatening the ease with which investors will be able to exit from the world’s most-crowded trades, if needed. Those trades include long positions in the dollar, …

Text size U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell spoke at a news conference in Washington following a meeting of the Federal Open Market Committee on Sept. 21, 2022. Drew Angerer/Getty Images Rising mortgage rates have quelled home buyer demand, cutting into both sales and prices. That’s for the better, according …

Text size The Bitcoin 2022 Conference in Miami. Marco Bello/Getty Images If “Waiting for Godot” were set in the crypto-verse, its titular character would be an institutional investor. Crypto enthusiasts expect banks, pension funds, and other money managers to put massive amounts of money into crypto tokens and industries, but …

Text size Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell. Drew Angerer/Getty Images It will be enough. That pretty much summed up Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell’s message to the markets about what the U.S. central bank will do to bring down inflation from its four-decade peak back to its official 2% target. …

Text size The Fed is trying to stamp out inflation by reducing economic demand, which is hurting the stock market. Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images The stock market has once again gone into selloff mode, but there is still reason to believe it is close to finding a floor—and moving higher …