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Haywire Trading Platforms Sabotaged “Black Monday” Retail Dip Buyers

With Monday’s global market sell-off triggered by a panic in Japan, investors logged into their stock trading platforms to buy (or sell) the dip through institutions like Charles Schwab, Fidelity, TD Ameritrade, Vanguard, E-Trade, and Wells Fargo to buy the dip. But whether these retail traders were planning on panic selling or scooping up discounted […]

Inflation “Cooled” in June, So Why is Consumer Confidence Still Tanking?

The recent CPI report showed that inflation is, according to official data, cooling down — so why are consumers more worried for the future than they’ve been in months? If prices are coming down, shouldn’t that fuel higher confidence and a greater collective sense of economic well-being? One simple answer is that the official data […]