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  • Nov 14, 2024

What Does a 60/40 Portfolio Look Like if We Replace Bonds With Bitcoin? A Lot Better: Van Straten

The traditional 60/40 portfolio, which ensures growth from equities and bonds that helped manage risk, was the perfect vehicle for the analog economy. Adding bitcoin to a 60/40 portfolio increases the returns as the allocation increases. It may be time to reassess the wisdom of the 60/40 portfolio, which was created back in the early 1950's and is often referred to as the "Modern Portfolio Theory."

  • Nov 14, 2024

Fed's Kugler says Fed has made good progress on achieving mandates

NEW YORK (Reuters) -Federal Reserve governor Adriana Kugler said Thursday the central bank has made considerable progress in working to achieve its job and inflation goals, while stopping short of offering firm guidance over what that means for the near-term monetary policy outlook. “The United States has seen considerable disinflation while experiencing a cooling but still resilient labor market,” Kugler said in a speech given before the 2024 Annual Meeting of the Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association and the Latin American and Caribbean Chapter of the Econometric Society, in Montevideo, Uruguay. But while there’s been progress on getting inflation back to the 2% target, Kugler noted there are likely to be ongoing challenges to further ease price pressures from housing factors and other factors.

  • Nov 14, 2024

US Producer Prices Rise, Risking Pressure in Fed’s Favored Gauge

(Bloomberg) -- US producer prices picked up in October, fueled in part by gains in portfolio management costs and other categories that feed into the Federal Reserve’s preferred inflation gauge.Most Read from BloombergUnder Trump, Prepare for New US Transportation PrioritiesZimbabwe City of 700,000 at Risk of Running Dry by Year-EndSaudi Neom Gets $3 Billion Loan Guarantee From Italy Export Credit Agency SaceNYC Congestion Pricing Plan With $9 Toll to Start in JanuaryThe Urban-Rural Divide Over

  • Nov 14, 2024

US wholesale inflation picks up slightly in sign that some price pressures remain elevated

Wholesale prices in the United States rose last month, remaining low but suggesting that the American economy has yet to completely vanquish inflationary pressure. Thursday's report from the Labor Department showed that its producer price index — which tracks inflation before it hits consumers — rose 0.2% from September to October, up from a 0.1% gain the month before. Compared with a year earlier, wholesale prices were up 2.4%, accelerating from a year-over-year gain of 1.9% in September.

  • Nov 14, 2024

US weekly jobless claims fall; unemployment rolls shrink

The number of Americans filing new applications for unemployment benefits fell last week, suggesting the labor market continued to chug along and that the abrupt slowdown in job growth in October was an aberration. Initial claims for state unemployment benefits dropped 4,000 to a seasonally adjusted 217,000 for the week ended Nov. 9, the Labor Department said on Thursday. Claims surged in early October amid distortions from Hurricanes Helene and Milton as a well as a strike by factory workers at Boeing, but layoffs have remained historically low, which is underpinning the economy.

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