YIELDS REACH A BOILING POINTRising Treasury yields and higher for longer oil prices and inflation have been no match for a resilient stock market that is running on bad breadth. What is the boiling point for yields, and what will a stock market meltdown look like if we reach those levels? Kenny Polcari drops in with the key indicators to watch and which sectors are the most vulnerable if the temperature keeps rising? Plus, iconic American brands like Nike and McDonald’s have lost that ...
THE TOKENIZATION OF OUR PORTFOLIOSWall Street and Washington are moving quickly to tokenize everything inside and outside of our portfolios and move them on to the blockchain. Ric Edelman drops in to explain what that really means to the future of investing and wealth management, and why it is both revolutionary and unavoidable. Plus, investors are tiptoeing our way through a house of horrors in the economy and remaining cautiously invested - at least for now. We reveal the latest result...
A WORLD BUILT ON BONDSSubscribe to Value Add by Investopedia on Substack: https://investopedia.substack.com/ The autumn wind is blowing in and it's taking interest rates higher as the Federal Reserve boosted the overnight lending rate by a quarter point last week, as expected. Investors may be getting used to higher for longer interest rates and inflation as the stock market has been running in place for more than one month. It’s the bond market that everyone is focused on, and it’...
ARE WE TOO FOCUSED ON THE FED?Subscribe to Value Add by Investopedia on Substack: https://investopedia.substack.com/ Our central bank finds itself in a tough spot as inflation ticks higher and the Treasury Secretary tries unsuccessfully to suppress bond yields leading many to wonder if Fed policy matters much these days. With the FOMC decision on interest rates set for this week, Liz Thomas of SoFi drops in with her perspective, and the most important indicators to watch through the ba...