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Whirlpool (NYSE:WHR) CEO Marc Bitzer is making one of the bluntest recession comparisons of this earnings cycle. According to the Morning Brew Daily podcast segment covering the company’s Q1 results, CEO Bitzer told investors: “This level of industry decline is similar to what we have observed during the global financial crisis and even higher than ... Whirlpool’s CEO Warns Consumer Spending Today Looks Like the 2008 Financial Crisis

Stock futures pulled back from record closes as commodities markets were shook by the ongoing war in Iran. M

Warsh is walking a tightrope as he tries to influence Fed policy.

New federal filings show the president executed thousands of stock transactions in the first three months of 2026 — including purchases whose timing critics say coincided with his administration's regulatory decisions.

A 58-year-old engineer in Palo Alto, married filing jointly, earns $750,000 a year, has already stuffed $4 million into 401(k)s and IRAs, and parks another $1.2 million in a brokerage account that holds a single S&P 500 fund. The 401(k) is maxed. The mega backdoor Roth is maxed. The next tax dollar saved has to ... The $40,000 Tax Move That Comes After Your 401(k) Hits Its Limit

Cash is suddenly king again on Wall Street. With recession fears lingering, interest rates still elevated, and consumers showing signs of fatigue, corporate America has been preparing for rougher weather ahead. Few companies have prepared more aggressively than Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE:BRK-A)(NYSE:BRK-B). The conglomerate ended the first quarter sitting on a staggering $397.6 billion cash pile, ... Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Just More Than Tripled Its Stake in Alphabet

Make sure your portfolio has companies that can raise prices with inflation to help keep up with rising prices.

(Bloomberg) -- A new era of elevated borrowing costs is potentially underway as war-driven inflation angst intensifies in the US bond market, sending 30-year yields toward a two-decade high above 5%.Most Read from BloombergWinners and Losers From Trump and Xi’s Beijing Summit TalksHormuz Oil Flows Creep Higher as More Supertankers ExitUS, Iran Stall on Hormuz Reopening as Oil Supplies TightenTrump Gets Revenge on Republican Who Voted to Convict HimHow Keir Starmer Imploded and Plunged Britain In

Paring down the central bank's balance sheet, or doing nothing at all, poses potentially dire consequences for the stock market.

A viral X post recycles 2023 Costco CFO comments as fresh recession warnings while US beef prices hit record highs.

Jerome Powell's successor and the Chicago Fed president foresee wildly different interest rate outcomes from the evolution of AI.

Investors step into the week after a Friday in the red, spurred by a stable of geopolitical uncertainties post Trump-Xi summit, rising bond yields, and sticky inflation.

Investing.com -- Institutional investors are growing increasingly concerned about upside inflation risks in the United States while pulling back from downside growth fears.

Is the end of the "Fed put" at hand?

Kevin Warsh is taking the reins at the Federal Reserve.

Ben Carlson, portfolio manager at Ritholtz Wealth Management and the voice behind A Wealth of Common Sense, dropped a line on Morningstar’s The Long View podcast that I keep coming back to. Co-host Jeff Ptak summarized Carlson’s thinking as “it’s not the latte, it’s the Lexus,” and Carlson agreed, adding “and it’s the house too.” ... Ben Carlson Says Skip the Luxury Car and House Hunt Smart. That’s Real Inflation Protection.

Americans are feeling increasingly uneasy about the economy. Consumer sentiment has been alarmingly weak, according to recent University of Michigan sentiment readings. At the same time, inflation has soared since the Iran war broke out. In April, the Consumer Price Index rose 3.8% on a ...

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It's incredibly rare when a sitting Fed chair interjects their opinion on stock valuations -- and when this happens, it shouldn't be ignored.

The world is an uncertain place today, but some businesses have a history of surviving whatever comes their way.

Political pressure is building for consumer rebates after Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) on Wednesday accused the administration's tariff policy of raising costs for households while allowing major corporations to retain the financial benefits. In a post on X, Kelly said,...

Stock market investors await Nvidia earnings and the Google I/O Conference, as well as a key conference from the Atlanta Federal Reserve.

Chipmaker Cerberus just debuted as 2026's biggest IPO, but it may soon be dwarfed by other tech giants.

Energy prices in the United States just did something violent. The PCE energy index jumped 11.56% month-over-month in March 2026, which pushed headline inflation back up to 3.5% year-over-year after a year of relative calm. West Texas Intermediate ripped from around $60 a barrel in January to over $100 today. If you have spent the ... Gold Or Oil? This ETF Decides For You When Inflation Strikes

A history-making raise may be on the way for Social Security beneficiaries next year -- but this is far from the full story.

Amazon faces a class action lawsuit accusing the company of retaining unlawful tariff costs instead of refunding consumers who paid higher prices.

Investing.com -- The Federal Reserve Board announced late Friday that it has appointed Jerome Powell as chair pro tempore, ensuring he will lead the U.S. central bank on an interim basis until his successor, Kevin Warsh, is formally sworn into office.

Nvidia’s market capitalisation ($5.7 trillion) has overtaken Germany’s GDP ($5.45 trillion). The combined value of the five largest US companies now exceeds the total GDP of Europe’s five largest economies.View on euronews

Investing.com -- Amazon.com Inc (NASDAQ:AMZN) has been hit with a proposed class-action lawsuit by consumers seeking refunds for inflated product costs passed down from tariffs that the U.S. Supreme Court later ruled were unlawfully imposed by President Donald Trump, according to a Reuters report.

Alphabet's YouTube and Snap have reached settlements in the first case set for trial in litigation seeking to force ‌social media platforms to cover the costs school districts incur to combat a youth ‌mental health crisis they say the companies fueled. The settlements were detailed in court filings on Friday in federal court in Oakland, ​California, and resolve claims by a Kentucky school district that is still due to take Facebook and Instagram parent Meta Platforms and TikTok to trial on June 15. Terms of the settlements with Breathitt County School District in rural Eastern Kentucky were not disclosed.