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Blockchain will be a game changer for independent artists, Web3 Media president says

Creating can become more financially lucrative with blockchain and Web 3.0 technology, said Chris Lyons, president of Web3 Media at a16z crypto.

Tension over return to office mandates portends coming battle in 2025

CEOs want their workers to return to the office, but flexible work arrangements are still crucial for the majority of workers.

Stock market today: Dow, S&P 500 close at record highs to cap winning month for US stocks

Stocks finished off a winning month of November at record highs to cap a holiday-shortened trading session.

Wall Street sees 'slower' pace of Fed rate cuts in 2025

Markets project just two Fed rate cuts next year as inflation remains sticky.

Disney is all in on cruise ships. Here's why investors should care.

Disney is doubling down on its cruise ship business. Analysts say the expansion should help boost both top and bottom-line growth.

Small cap check in, holiday shopping: Asking for a Trend

Josh Lipton takes a look back at the market themes from this past trading day on toay's Asking for a Trend. Yahoo Finance Markets and Data Editor Jared Blikre outlines the rotation into small-cap stocks (^RUT) from large caps (^DJI, ^IXIC, ^GSPC), which fuels the iShares Russell 2000 ETF's (IWM) outperformance, as well as other key trading takeaways. Wells Fargo Managing Director Retail Finance Adam Davis examines consumer trends during the holiday shopping season and what they mean for retailers. To watch more expert insights and analysis on the latest market action, check out more Asking for a Trend here. This post was written by Naomi Buchanan.

Small caps, markets under Trump, US dollar: Market Takeaways

Small-cap stocks (^RUT) have been having their moment compared to large caps (^DJI, ^IXIC, ^GSPC), as the iShares Russell 2000 ETF (IWM) outperforms other major indexes. Yahoo Finance markets and data editor Jared Blikre outlines this investor rotation into small caps and other trading trends, including the comparison between the S&P 500's (^GSPC) performance under President-elect Donald Trump's first full-term and the rally stemming from his reelection, as well as risk signals from the US dollar. To watch more expert insights and analysis on the latest market action, check out more Asking for a Trend here. This post was written by Luke Carberry Mogan.

Google Seeks to Undo Epic Games Antitrust Win Over App Store

(Bloomberg) -- Alphabet Inc.’s Google is asking a federal appeals court to throw out a ruling in an antitrust case brought by Fortnite-maker Epic Games that would force the search giant to overhaul its Play mobile app store. Most Read from BloombergRiyadh Metro Partially Opens in Bid to Ease City’s Traffic JamsAs Wars Rage, Cities Face a Dark New Era of Urban DestructionGoogle said in a filing Wednesday that US District Judge James Donato’s ruling is mistaken and asked that the outcome of the lo

How Trump's tariffs might warp two crucial readings on the health of the US economy

In carrying out campaign promises on trade and the border, Trump risks worsening the inflation dilemma that catapulted him to power.

How Trump's tariff rhetoric is affecting global market ETFs

As President-elect Donald Trump's second term in the White House approaches, some investors are using exchange-traded funds (ETFs) to play the Trump trade, the post-election market rally. CFRA Research head of ETF data and analytics Aniket Ullal joins Wealth! Host Brad Smith to check in on the ETF market before Trump's inauguration. "We've seen financials react very positively after the election of President-elect Trump. In particular, we've seen regional banks do very well" with ETFs like the SPDR S&P Regional Banking ETF (KRE), "which holds a bunch of regional banks, those have actually reacted very positively to the election. That's partly driven by expectations of looser regulation, expectations of the new administration being less hawkish on antitrust," Ullal tells the Wealth! team. He adds, "[The] expectation of more M&A activity that's also driven ETFs that are focused on exchanges [and are] more capital markets related" like the iShares U.S. Broker-Dealers & Securities Exchanges ETF (IAI) and Invesco KBW Bank ETF (KBWB) On the overall ETF ecosystem, Ullal says, "This year, for the first time, we may expect in a calendar year to see flows into ETFs in the US exceed $1 trillion. We're already past the record," which was set in 2021 at $911 billion. "We're already at $950 [billion], so we're already past the record [and] we now could pass a trillion," given ETF flows are seasonally strong in the final month of the year as investors and funds. rebalance their portfolios. Ullal notes there has been some reaction in the ETF space to Trump's tariff rhetoric. Trump has said he would instate a 60% tariff on imports from China, which the strategist says has led to investors "trying to diversify away and look at ETFs that hold emerging markets like India, Taiwan, [Vietnam], and so on, that could benefit from some move away from China." The former president has also indicated he plans to impose larger tariffs on Canada and Mexico, though Ullal says, "We've actually not seen as strong a reaction" to this rhetoric. To watch more expert insights and analysis on the latest market action, check out more Wealth here. This post was written by Naomi Buchanan.

Musk is 'on point' about the CFPB: Frmr. Trump CFPB acting director

Elon Musk calls to eliminate the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), making the agency the latest target of the proposed Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), which President-elect Donald Trump has named Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy to co-lead. Actum Strategic Advisors co-chair Mick Mulvaney, who was part of President-elect Donald Trump's first administration, serving as the Office of Management and Budget director, CFPB acting director, and the White House chief of staff, joins Catalysts Hosts Seana Smith and Madison Mills to discuss his thoughts on the proposed agency and its plans. Mulvaney tells Yahoo Finance he agrees with Musk's idea to shut down the CFPB, saying, "In fact, we examined the possibility of whether or not I had the authority to shut down the agency [as acting director], the lawyers that I had hired actually told me that I could not, and I respected that decision." He adds, "Elon's comments are right on point," the CFPB is "a duplicative layer of additional regulatory oversight into the consumer financial protection relationship." On how effective he expects the DOGE to be, Mulvaney says, "One of the weaknesses of this department is that it isn't real. It doesn't exist. It's not statutory. It's essentially a PR campaign. Right now. It has zero statutory authority." He notes, "That being said, it's going to have a tremendous amount of visibility. We tried to restructure the government back in 2018 and failed, in large part because we weren't able to sort of build public interest in fixing a bureaucracy that has pretty much grown stale over the last 100 years since the modern bureaucracy was created during the New Deal. If Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy can shed new light on it and get people interested in fixing the bureaucracy, that will be great. It won't have the authority ... So, it's going to be an all of government effort." Musk has seemingly become a part of Trump's inner circle on the campaign trail, but there have been some concerns about the relationship. Mulvaney says he doesn't know how long Musk will last in Trump's administration, adding, "I don't care how long somebody is there. I care what they do while they are there. If he can succeed in this, that would be a huge benefit." He adds the "over-under on how long Elon stays is two years" given Republicans have secured control of Congress during the first two years of Trump's second term. To watch more expert insights and analysis on the latest market action, check out more Catalysts here. This post was written by Naomi Buchanan.

Musk Calls for Abolishing Consumer Agency GOP Has Long Targeted

(Bloomberg) -- Billionaire Elon Musk called for eliminating the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, highlighting the renewed threat under President-elect Donald Trump to a regulatory agency that has long been a target of Republicans and business advocacy groups.Most Read from BloombergIn Traffic-Weary Toronto, a Battle Breaks Out Over Bike LanesIn Italy’s Motor City, Car-Free Options Are GrowingNew York City’s ‘Living Breakwaters’ Brace for Stormier SeasIn Kansas City, a First-Ever Stadium Des

Mortgage rates edge lower after Trump picks Bessent to lead Treasury

Mortgage rates were little changed this week as financial markets reacted to President-elect Donald Trump’s slate of Cabinet picks.

The US labor market has become 'low-hire, low-fire'

Fewer Americans are filing for unemployment benefits. But that doesn't mean companies are hiring.

Key Fed inflation gauge shows PCE 'going sideways'

October's Personal Consumption Expenditures report is the latest data the Fed will consider in its next interest rate decision.

Stock market today: S&P 500, Nasdaq slide after key Fed inflation gauge shows faltering progress

Investors are looking to a reading on the Fed's preferred inflation gauge to provide clues to rate cuts.

Dell stock sinks after company warns AI spending 'will not be linear'

Dell Technologies stock sank Wednesday as the company took a cautionary approach to its fourth quarter guidance, warning that AI growth "will not be linear."

The Fed has 'got to get it right' to preserve state of US economy

Amid concerns that some of President-elect Donald Trump's proposed policies, like tariffs and immigration reform, could be inflationary, the market waits for the Federal Reserve's next move in its ongoing rate easing cycle as the central bank grapples with uncertainty around the economic impact of the new administration's policies. Moody’s Analytics chief economist Mark Zandi joins Seana Smith and Brad Smith on Morning Brief to discuss his expectations for the Fed. Zandi says 2025 is "going to be about economic policy coming out of the new administration, everything from the tariffs to immigration policy, deportations and of course tax and spending policy ... Big fiscal policy changes dead ahead and so, I think, that's front and center and the Fed's going to just have to react to that." The economist notes, "The Fed's going to be kind of a bit player, but it's got to it's got to get it right, otherwise this really good economy that we're experiencing now will be significantly diminished." "I expect the Fed to continue to normalize rates. They're going to probably cut rates in December [and] at least once in the first quarter of next year. But, having said that, if we do see big changes on the tariff front and immigration front and tax spending policies are very uncertain, I think the reaction of the Fed may be to pause rate cuts because they don't know how is this all going to play out." To watch more expert insights and analysis on the latest market action, check out more Morning Brief here. This post was written by Naomi Buchanan.

Home contract activity jumps for third straight month as consumers shrug off higher rates

Home contract signings rose in October for the third consecutive month as homebuyers took advantage of growing inventory levels and shook off higher mortgage rates.

Airline stocks soar as demand for premium travel booms

Airline industry watchers see a strong end-of-the-year finish for the stocks of big US carriers

2 bullish charts showing how Block is breaking out post-election

Technical patterns don't only measure prices, they measure belief.

HP earnings in line with expectations, CEO says tariffs would hit the consumer

HP CEO Enrique Lores weighs in on potential tariffs from the Trump administration.

Retail winners & losers as Black Friday nears

As Black Friday approaches, retail stocks are on the move with earnings reports released Tuesday for major retailers including Dick's Sporting Goods (DKS), Abercrombie & Fitch (ANF), and Best Buy (BBY). Strategic Resource Group Founder Burt Flickinger joins Asking for a Trend Host Josh Lipton to break down the retail winners and losers, consumer behavior, and broader industry trends. Flickinger underscores that in a challenging retail environment, where consumers are increasingly budget-conscious, the winners are going to be “necessary” retailers in the food sector, like Kroger (KR) and Costco (COST). Tune in to the video above for more insights into the shopping trends shaping the year ahead. To watch more expert insights and analysis on the latest market action, check out more Asking for a Trend here. This post was written by Cindy Mizaku.

Housing a top investment opportunity in 2025: Strategist

Alger Director of Market Strategy Brad Neuman sits down with the Catalysts Hosts Seana Smith and Madison Mills to discuss investment opportunities in the new year, with a particular focus on the real estate sector. Given the US housing shortage of around 2 million homes, Neuman sees strong demand for new construction and remodeling. Neuman explains that Alger's investment strategy focuses on “looking for companies that are gaining market share.” “If we can find them in industries that are cyclically down on their luck and could recover, then we can get a really quality growth stock at a cheaper price," he said. Watch the video above to see why Neuman likes Trex (TREX) as one housing play. To watch more expert insights and analysis on the latest market action, check out more Catalysts here. This post was written by Cindy Mizaku.

Consumer confidence rises to highest level since July 2023

Consumers said they are feeling better about the US economy as fears of a slowdown in the labor market continue to fade.

Consumer confidence rises, Oct. new home sales tumble: Data

The Conference Board's consumer confidence index rose to 111.7 in November, a 2.1 point month-over-month rise that was just shy of estimates of 111.8 for this month. Simultaneously, the US Census Bureau reported 610,000 US new home sales that occurred in October, also below economist estimates for 725,000. Catalysts hosts Seana Smith and Madison Mills break down the pair of key economic data. To watch more expert insights and analysis on the latest market action, check out more Catalysts here. This post was written by Luke Carberry Mogan.

Best Buy broadly misses earnings estimates as consumers pull back on appliances, electronics

For the 12th consecutive quarter, Best Buy posted negative same-store sales growth. Net sales and earnings per share also missed estimates.

Addressing the US housing crisis with the Property Brothers

As people who've spent their lives helping others transform houses into comfortable homes, the Property Brothers Jonathan and Drew Scott are keenly aware of the impact of the ongoing housing crisis. "We're probably about 4.5 million homes short of a healthy market," Jonathan explains to Yahoo Finance Executive Editor Brian Sozzi on Opening Bid. He continues by underlining that a big hurdle is that people don't want affordable housing in their own neighborhoods, likely because people often biasedly assume that poverty will bring crime. If people don't care about affordable developments for the sake of someone else having shelter, then the toll on tax-payers should grab their attention. "It actually costs us more in taxpayer dollars than it does to house people somewhere safe. They say instantly, as soon as somebody has a safe house over their head, the likelihood of them descending into further drug problems or crime problems, it drops like a quarter. And the longer that they're off the street, the safer it gets," he says. "So what we've said is right now they're paying in most major cities, they're paying about $800,000 to $900,000 per one bedroom unit to build. We can get that cost down under $200,000." For full episodes of Opening Bid, watch on our website or listen on your favorite podcast platform. Catch Brian Sozzi's full interview with Property Brothers Jonathan and Drew Scott on Yahoo Finance's Opening Bid. This post was written by Rachael Lewis-Krisky, producer for Opening Bid.

Understanding market risk and seasonality for smarter investing

Listen and subscribe to Stocks In Translation on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you find your favorite podcast. Risk is all around us. Whether it’s the real world or the investment world we can’t escape it forever. In this episode of Stocks In Translation, Yahoo Finance Markets and Data Editor Jared Blikre and Producer Sydnee Fried welcome back a friend of the show, Steve Sosnick, chief strategist at Interactive Brokers. This episode’s word of the day is risk: the chance that an investment’s actual return will differ from the expected return, potentially resulting in financial loss. While it’s true that the market generally goes “up and to the left” over time, Sosnick believes that people often “get very focused on reward” without fully understanding the associated risks. “I think when you get into an environment where things are a little frothy, people lose sight of that,” says Sosnick. “Risk is always out there. And risk has a nasty way of biting you at exactly the wrong times.” Blikre and the team also discuss seasonality, a recurring theme in the months of September and October. When asked about his investment strategy around it, Sosnick responds, “I take into account seasonality, but I don’t I don’t trade off.” He argues that although seasonality is part of investor psychology, it’s too inconsistent to be a reliable trading strategy. “On a month-over-month basis, it’s a little too random to really, I think, make too many heavy-duty decisions,” says Sosnick. Twice a week, Stocks In Translation cuts through the market mayhem, noisy numbers and hyperbole to give you the information you need to make the right trade for your portfolio. You can find more episodes here, or watch on your favorite streaming service. This post was written by John Tejada.

Should the US Treasury be buying bitcoin?

With Wyoming Senator Cynthia Lummis advocating for the US Treasury to create a bitcoin (BTC-USD) reserve, many are debating the merits of the department investing in cryptocurrency. On this week’s episode of Capitol Gains, Whalen Global Advisors Chairman Chris Whalen offers his take on the matter to host Rachelle Akuffo, Washington Correspondent Ben Werschkul, and senior columnist Rick Newman. “We're in the opposite situation that Franklin Roosevelt faced in 1933,” he explains. “We had deflation [in 1933]. Today we have inflation. That's why bitcoin has hit $100,000. Bitcoin is the best indication of inflation you could possibly have.” To Whalen, the answer lies not in crypto, but in gold. He believes the solution is for the Treasury to buy gold (GC=F) and sell credit default swaps. “You buy gold and start pushing the gold price up to where it should be,” he explains, “which is much higher than the current levels.” “Credit default swaps for the United States are trading at 40 basis points,” he adds. “That's twice Berkshire Hathaway. (BRK-B, BRK-A) When you start seeing corporates trading inside the United States in the credit markets, that's a problem. I think ultimately, we are going to have to respond to that.” “Unfortunately, nobody on Capitol Hill understands finance,” Whalen says. “Bitcoin is the problem. It's not the solution.” To find out more, listen to the full episode of Capitol Gains here. For more expert insight and the latest market action, click here to watch more Capitol Gains. This post was written by Nick Riccardo.

Kohl's CEO change, Thanksgiving savings tips: Asking for a Trend

Josh Lipton takes a look at the top stories of the trading day, breaking down what investors need to know on Asking for a Trend. Kohl's (KSS) CEO Tom Kingsbury will be stepping down from the chief role effective January 15, 2025, with Ashley Buchanan, the Michaels Companies CEO, named his replacement. Yahoo Finance Senior Reporter Brooke DiPalma explains the leadership change announcement. Ahead of the Thanksgiving holiday, Wells Fargo Agri-Food Institute group head Robin Wenzel outlines her tips for consumers looking to save in the grocery store. Zoom Video Communication (ZM) and Agilent Technologies (A) are among the stocks in focus after reporting quarterly results. To watch more expert insights and analysis on the latest market action, check out more Asking for a Trend here. This post was written by Naomi Buchanan.

MicroStrategy spends $5.4 billion buying another 55,000 bitcoins, shares slide

MicroStrategy continues to add bitcoin to its balance sheet, buying another $5 billion worth of the token last week.

Top 3 reasons why people were moving to the South last year: NAR

While the 30-year fixed mortgage rates tick closer to 7% in November, the National Association of Realtors (NAR) Migration Trends report found 46% of US homebuyers to have migrated to the South last year. "That's really where they're finding more affordability opportunities, but also some of the strongest job markets. So they're really poised for long-term growth, as well," NAR Director of Business & Consumer Research Matt Christopherson tells Brad Smith on Wealth. Christopherson elaborates further on the report tracking 2023 patterns, which saw homebuyers placing a higher priority on living closer to family and friends: "People are really looking for ways to be able to get into this market and compete. They're also looking for lower and more favorable tax rates, especially to combat insurance costs that are really rising in the housing space. And a lot of that occurs in the South." To watch more expert insights and analysis on the latest market action, check out more Wealth here. This post was written by Luke Carberry Mogan.

The ways in which blockchain, Web3 are informing tech's future

Listen and subscribe to Financial Freestyle on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you find your favorite podcasts. Web3 Media president Chris Lyons is constantly in search of "what's next" in technology. On the latest episode of Financial Freestyle with Ross Mac, Lyons sits down with Mac to discuss the future of blockchain and Web3. Lyons got his start in the music industry, then used his music engineering background to pivot to the tech world. He says that his background in music helps him have a pulse on future trends. "At the end of the day... things that we use on a day-to-day basis from Uber (UBER) to... Airbnb (ABNB), you know, even Google (GOOG, GOOGL) when it first came out, these all sounded like terrible ideas when they were coming out, right?" says Lyons, who is also a general partner at Andreessen Horowitz. He notes that the founders of those companies were forward-thinking enough to pursue their ideas despite pushback. Lyons believes that blockchain and Web3 will inform the next wave of such companies. He defines blockchain as, "a computer system that really verifies ownership," saying that it is "like a computer built on top of the internet... that now runs in its own ecosystem." He argues that there have been three eras of the internet so far: Web1, Web2, and Web3. Web1 is the read era, Web2 is the write era, and Web3 allows users to read, write, and have ownership over their content on the internet. Blockchain technology makes Web3 possible. Lyons sees this ownership as the future of the internet. "We are still in all these systems that are creating centralized ownership. And I think that the only true path forward is, you know, decentralization and blockchain," he says. In the future, Lyons believes that users won't need to think about how blockchain, Web3, or AI work behind the scenes. These new technologies will be integrated into user-friendly applications, similarly to how apps use GPS now. He says that even NFTs won't necessarily be thought of as "NFTs": "These are all technical terms that will eventually be put on the back burner because people will just want to be able to use...the benefits of the technology." Financial Freestyle with Ross Mac on Yahoo Finance is dedicated to promoting economic prosperity for all. Through expert insights, practical advice, and inspiring success stories, we empower you to build and grow wealth. Join us on this transformative journey toward financial freedom and inclusive economic growth. This post was written by Meredith Lawrence.

S&P 500 seen reaching 6,600 next year by strategists at RBC, Barclays

Strategists see falling inflation, resilient economic growth, and rising earnings driving further returns for the S&P 500 in 2025.

Markets are in 'reflation mode': Expert

Investors are eagerly awaiting Wednesday's Personal Consumption Expenditures (PCE) report, which will provide insights into how the Federal Reserve is managing inflation. SEI chief investment officer Jim Smigiel joins Catalysts to analyze the economic landscape, focusing on the potential impacts of Trump's proposed economic policies. While acknowledging the pro-growth nature of Trump's economic strategy, Smigiel states, "but it's also the backdrop that we're kind of concerned about." He warns that a robust economy combined with continued monetary stimulus could potentially lead to what he describes as "a bit of a policy error," potentially creating additional inflationary pressures. Despite these reservations, Smigiel remains optimistic about the current market environment, characterizing it as a "reflationary" period. He recommends investors position themselves in risk assets, specifically highlighting small-cap stocks, financial sector investments, and value-oriented equities. "The one thing that we're looking at that's still casting a bit of a long shadow is the level of rates," he explains. "As we get closer to 4 3/4 [%], that's the one aspect that we think could pour some cold water... on this risk rally. But between now and then, we think we're in reflation mode." To watch more expert insights and analysis on the latest market action, check out more Catalysts here. This post was written by Angel Smith

Tesla rally is sentiment-driven, not on fundamental strength: UBS

Tesla (TSLA) shares extend their rally catalyzed by President-elect Donald Trump's reelection after CEO Elon Musk's support of the former President's campaign earned him a proposed Cabinet nomination. Seana Smith and Brad Smith take a closer look at the stock move as UBS analysts warn the electric vehicle maker's jump is driven by animal spirits rather than actual positive fundamentals. To watch more expert insights and analysis on the latest market action, check out more Morning Brief here. This post was written by Naomi Buchanan.

TKer: Wall Street strategists nailing one of their more important forecasts for 2024

While it’s been the case their year-end price targets have been way off on the conservative side, strategists have actually nailed one important prediction: 2024 earnings.

After Nvidia earnings, is the AI trend still investors' friend?

When it comes to investing, AI is very much about the potential. Recent earnings illustrate why.

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