The biggest loser from the Treasury’s latest buyback plan: The U.S. dollar. Here’s why.
An important pain threshold has been crossed, one currencymarket expert warns. Source:MarketWatch
U.S. bond yields are already surging again a day after Bessent’s debt-buyback plan
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s plan to calm markets is being shortcircuited. Source:MarketWatch
The energy market’s rising ‘crack spread’ is threatening to break the American consumer
The energy market is sending a warning to cashstrapped consumers: Don’t expect prices at the pump to come down anytime soon. Source:MarketWatch
Conditions are ripe for a market ‘accident,’ but surging bond yields alone won’t cause it, concedes pessimistic strategist
The rise in bond yields renders markets more vulnerable to bad news, observes the “permabear” Albert Edwards of Société Générale. Source:MarketWatch
Crypto comeback? Bitcoin, ethereum are headed for their best day in months as investors flock to hard assets
After months of slumber, digital currencies are waking up, with bitcoin and ethereum shooting higher on Thursday, as traders credited President Donald Trump’s…
You’ve all heard AI is remaking the economy. Here’s how it’s changing lives — for better or worse.
AI, not Trump, is the big mover of the economy, this analyst says — and it’s just going to get bigger. Source:MarketWatch
Treasury’s buyback blitz may end up driving bond yields higher, warns JPMorgan. Here’s its advice for investors.
Strategists Jay Barry and Jason Hunter are predicting fallout from the Treasury’s move that they see as not even needed. Source:MarketWatch
Walmart shares slide as U.S. sales hit by falling drug prices
The supermarket chain reported comparable U.S. sales growth of 2.6% in its secondquarter earnings, its lowest in over six years. Source:MarketWatch
AMD is betting on dirt-cheap AI chips, but financing them is a major question mark
AMD just acquired a company whose chip is fast, inexpensive and a total mystery for lenders. Source:MarketWatch
Oil prices jump after Trump declares economic war on Iran
West Texas Intermediate and Brent crude’s frontmonth contracts both climbed after President Donald Trump said he was launching a “crushing economic operation”…
Why Bessent’s Treasury operations have breathed life back into the gold trade
Gold is the reciprocal of the dollar and consensus among strategists is that Bessent’s yield curve control will have a detrimental impact on the U.S. currency…
‘There is considerable tension’: My grandmother, 99, wants to cut my mother out of her will. Should I intervene?
“Grandma feels that she was pressured by my mother into taking out a $50,000 HELOC.” Source:MarketWatch