Author: Trends Journal (Julian Dzienio)

U.S. builders are expected to add 371,000 apartments to the nation’s housing stock this year, a 50-percent increase over last year and more units than in any of the last 30 years. Available units could double or more in high-demand markets such as Houston and Los Angeles. But as many as 80 percent of these...

With U.S. stocks hitting six new-record highs in 2020’s first 12 trading days, investors holding $1 million or more in stocks are more confident in the market than a month ago. In 2019’s fourth quarter, many investors feared a market drop or recession; now a survey by E-Trade Financial found that 76 percent of these...

Many banks expect the dollar to weaken against other currencies this year. A weaker dollar would make U.S. goods cheaper in other countries, boost commodity prices at home, and buoy the stock price of mining, oil, and other companies that produce commodities. The weakness would stem from the Fed’s continuing low interest rates, which make...

Last Tuesday, the Fed opened another $82 billion in short-term liquidity to the repo markets. This followed $60.7 billion in aid on Monday. According to the Fed’s calculations, it has offered $4.2 trillion in props to markets as of 9 January. On 15 January, $229.5 billion of the short-term loans were outstanding. The Fed also...

The new pact gives each side some, but not a lot, of what it wants. China has agreed to buy about $200 billion a year in U.S. goods, stiffen protections for intellectual property, and open its markets wider to American firms, especially in financial services. The deal leaves in place about $370 billion in tariffs...