Powell says Fed will keep supporting economy ‘for as long as it takes’
Outlook is brightening, but recovery ‘far from complete,’ Fed chairman says in WSJ op-ed.Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell on Friday said that while the U.S. economic outlook is “brightening,” the recovery is “far from complete.”In an op-ed published in the Wall Street Journal,Powell recounted the moment last February when he realized that the coronavirus pandemic would sweep across the country.“The danger to the U.S. economy was grave. The challenge was to limit the severity and duration o
Apple Stock Is Going Down, One Analyst Says. Here’s Why
Recently, I laid out the arguments supporting Wall Street’s most bullish of theses on Apple stock. Some of the highlights included the doubling of services and wearables revenues in five years, the 5G super cycle, the greenfield Apple Car opportunity, and an acceleration in share repurchases.Now, I look at the flip side of the coin. How would one support the most bearish argument on Apple shares?At least one analyst has compiled a laundry list of items that makes him fear for a 35% drop in the s
New York/Hong Kong - Warren Buffett has just joined the world's most exclusive club of the mega rich.The legendary American investor was worth $100 billion on Thursday, according to the Bloomberg Billionaire's Index. That puts him in the company of just five other men above that threshold. And he's now the sixth richest person in the world, ranking just behindFacebookCEO Mark Zuckerberg.The 90-year-old Buffett has added nearly $13 billion to his net worth this year as shares in his industrial a