Tariffs adding to price pressures as more families face heavy debt loads

Retail operator Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield (URW) has elevated a longtime executive to the role of chief operating officer for its U.S. business. URW promoted Geoff Mason from vice president of asset management and development to COO after a series of successful development launches in Chicago, New Jersey and Southern California, according to the mall giant. SEE ALSO:…

10yr yields began the morning in slightly stronger territory, generally following a modest decline in oil prices overnight. That trend actually ran its course by 5am ET and yields began rising gradually at that time. Sellers picked up the pace after 10am (partly oil-related, but certainly also plenty of bond-specific selling pressure). Yields are now…

Key insight: If Democrats win control of both chambers of Congress, they would use committee oversight powers to stall and question the administration’s agenda, even if they lack the votes to enact many of their own legislative priorities. Forward look: Crypto, national trust charters and Trump administration official misdeeds would be prime targets for scrutiny,…

Stocks are facing a lot of issues right now, even if investors think everything looks great on the surface warns DoubleLine Capital’s Jeffrey Gundlach.

Despite multiple major sell-offs, the S&P 500 (^GSPC -0.25%) has more than doubled since the start of 2023 and is up 13.1% year-to-date. That’s significant outperformance relative to the index’s annual total returns of 9% to 10% over long periods. Investors sometimes associate higher stock prices with stocks being more expensive. Nvidia (NVDA +0.52%), Alphabet…

Bybit is expanding the role of tokenised equities on its platform by using more xStocks as underlyings for its Dual Asset structured product, allowing users to take short-duration exposure to tokenised shares through a yield structure rather than direct holding alone. The exchange added four xStocks pairs linked to Meta, Tesla, Robinhood and Circle, taking…