A $9 trillion corporate debt bomb is ‘bubbling’ in the US economy
At first glance, it looks like a $9 trillion time bomb is ready to detonate, a corporate debt load that has escalated thanks to easy borrowing terms and a seemingly endless thirst from investors. On Wall Street, though, hopes are...
Mortgage refinance applications hit 18-year low
With no major move in interest rates and continued weakness in home affordability, there was not a lot of incentive for homebuyers to make a move last week, and there was even less for homeowners looking to save money on...
US business borrowing for equipment rises 6% in October: ELFA
U.S. companies’ borrowing to spend on capital investment rose 6 percent in October from a year earlier, a trade group representing capital equipment lenders said on Tuesday. The companies signed up for $8.9 billion in new loans, leases and lines...
Wells Fargo’s Scott Wren dismisses risks: ‘You need to be stepping in here and buying some stocks’
Investors are concerned about three key risks but they may be worrying for nothing, strategist Scott Wren told CNBC on Tuesday. The questions of whether there will be a policy mistake by the Federal Reserve, whether global growth is going...
Mohamed El-Erian: US is ‘much more vulnerable’ to a policy mistake by the Fed
There is a greater chance of the Federal Reserve making a mistake these days, noted economist Mohamed El-Erian told CNBC on Tuesday. “There’s no doubt in my mind we are more vulnerable,” to a “policy mistake” by the Federal Reserve...
Jeremy Siegel: Expect the Fed to ‘substantially’ slow down rate hikes in 2019
The Federal Reserve will likely ease up on its plans for multiple interest rate hikes next year, Wharton School finance professor Jeremy Siegel told CNBC on Tuesday. In addition to an anticipated rate rise in December, the central bank has...
Trump says breaking with Saudi Arabia would send oil prices ‘through the roof’
President Donald Trump on Tuesday linked his decision to continue backing Saudi Arabia — despite the murder of a U.S. resident by Saudi agents — to his desire to keep oil prices low. “Saudi Arabia, if we broke with them,...
Bain and KKR establish a severance fund for Toys R Us workers
KKR and Bain Capital, the private equity firms that owned Toys R Us before the company declared bankruptcy earlier this year, said Tuesday that they have each pledged $10 million to create the TRU Financial Assistance Fund, which aims to...
US homebuilding rose in October on a rebound in multifamily housing projects.
U.S. homebuilding rose in October amid a rebound in multifamily housing projects, but construction of single-family homes fell for a second straight month, suggesting the housing market remained mired in weakness as mortgage rates march higher. Other details of the...
Powell is doing a much better job than Trump, even if rates keep rising: CNBC CFO survey
President Donald Trump’s attacks on Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell aren’t popular with one important polling group within the markets: chief financial officers. Four in five North American members of CNBC’s Global CFO Council support Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell’s...
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