This kind of communication was less common 30 years ago. But a series of Fed chairs — Alan Greenspan, Ben S. Bernanke and Janet L. Yellen — expanded the practice. […]
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Back to news homeBitcoin Is Increasingly Acting Like Just Another Tech Stock
SAN FRANCISCO — Bitcoin was conceived more than a decade ago as “digital gold,” a long-term store of value that would resist broader economic trends and provide a hedge against […]
Fear and Loathing Return to Tech Start-Ups
Start-up workers came into 2022 expecting another year of cash-gushing initial public offerings. Then the stock market tanked, Russia invaded Ukraine, inflation ballooned, and interest rates rose. Instead of going […]
The Stock and Bond Markets Don’t Yet Know How to Cope With the Fed
On Wednesday, the S&P 500 stock index jumped 3 percent, as though all was right with the world. On Thursday, stocks collapsed, with the tech-heavy Nasdaq index plunging 5 percent […]
Can Elon Musk Make Twitter’s Numbers Work?
Still, the interest rates on the loans reflect the risk that they might not get paid back. The banks don’t hold on to the loans but sell them to other […]
How Twitter’s Board Went From Fighting Elon Musk to Accepting Him
Twitter’s board had reached the end of the road.It was April 24. Ten days earlier, Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, had made an unsolicited bid to buy Twitter for […]
Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Reports Drop in Earnings
The company’s financial filings also showed that Berkshire had dramatically increased its investment in the oil company giant Chevron to nearly $26 billion at the end of the first quarter, […]
As Stocks Fall, Economic Fears Rise, Along With Inflation
Broadly speaking, earnings reports have shown that profit growth continues, and results from some big firms, like Microsoft and Facebook’s parent, Meta Platforms, did briefly ease the panic on Wall […]
Rising Economic Fear Batters Wall Street
But in April, Fed officials began to shift their view, expressed in speeches and other public comments, on how quickly interest rates will have to rise to get inflation under […]
Why U.S. Oil Companies Aren’t Riding to Europe’s Rescue
“The model has totally changed,” he said.Oil executives also argue that they are spending a lot of money on new oil and gas production but that inflation is undercutting their […]