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News Headlines
- Retail traders are beating big firms in guessing where U.S. interest rates will go next
A look at how individual traders have performed against their bigger counterparts underscores just how much predictive power lies in the hands of Main Street.
- Student-loan forgiveness deadline extended. Here’s how to take advantage.
The Biden administration is giving borrowers more time to take a key step that will make them eligible for a student-loan forgiveness program.
- Oil turns higher on decline in U.S. supplies as traders weigh demand outlook
Oil futures moved higher on Wednesday, buoyed by a second straight weekly decline in U.S. crude supplies, as a slowdown in the U.S. inflation rate lifted prospects for interest-rate cuts and the potential for stronger energy demand.
- GameStop and AMC shares were halted 38 times on Tuesday. This expert has been arguing for decades that halts don’t work.
Charles M.C. Lee, professor emeritus at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, has been questioning the wisdom of trading halts for some time.
- Mizuho still recommends Terns Pharma as a cheap entry to the weight-loss-drug craze
Mizuho analysts are betting the stock of the small biotech Terns Pharmaceuticals Inc. could rally sharply if the company’s oral weight-loss drug proves successful when data from an early-stage trial is released later this year.
- The soft economic data has been bad. The hard data is starting to weaken as well.
Surveys of consumers as well as businesses have been pessimistic for some time. Now the hard data, such as the retail-sales report for April, is starting to weaken as well, though it’s still much better than what the so-called soft data is suggesting.