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Investors have weathered an incredible storm of volatility so far in 2022. The year started with a rapid surge of COVID driven by the Omicron variant, supply chain issues continued to plague the global economy leading to high inflation, Russia invaded the Ukraine spiking raw material prices further and, finally, the U.S. Federal Reserve began …

REUTERS While the press tends to focus on what stocks will do in the short term, the bigger (and more important) question facing all investors is: “What will US stocks do over the next 20 years?” DataTrek co-founder Nicholas Colas said in a note on Friday that the answer to that question will be determined …

getty Stocks are limping into the weekend on Friday’s session, with the Dow and S&P 500 off slightly, and the tech-heavy Nasdaq off more than 1%. A source of the pullback is US-China tensions, as China ordered the closure of a US consulate in Chengdu, in response to Washington’s shuttering of the Chinese consulate in …

Manufacturing is getting crushed. The Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia reported that manufacturing activity in its region is now below the levels seen at the depths of the Great Recession. All of the data for March was negative. The indexes for new orders, current shipments and the average workweek all fell to their lowest readings …