/biz/ - Business & Finance

brainlet here. can someone explain why literally everyone expects fed to pivot this year and cut rates? when fed keeps saying that is not going to happen

inflation is high and people are dreaming? hopium or what?

>>12920839
I like watching Money GPS videos, because he gathers together all the economic data without adding his own opinion. Like a slideshow. In addition try to guess the Feds next move. They move the market up, not "good earnings".

>>12670941
There is nothing wrong with gold coins. I bought bars of silver, but when I will buy gold, it will be coins.

>>6915002
Thanks for the smugdoka, she'll be introduced to my folder as smug56.jpg

>>761565
and finally.

Pure stock purchases has fairly high costs, but also the highest risk and highest potential return. When you buy stock, you pay a fee between 4-15 dollars or a % cost based on the company. You are just buying that one company so if it goes up you are winning, and when it goes down you are losing money, besides the fee. So typically you need a return that far exceeds say, 8-15% in order to cover the fee. People that buy stocks directly tend to carefully watch their picks daily or hourly for news to judge when to buy or sell, but they can also automate a high or low point to buy/sell.

Mutual Funds are a slow, but safe way to gamble. Expected returns are based on at least 10+ years of slow and steady investment. There are low fee, no load mutual funds which are ideal for investing because then you can focus on returns in the long term without worrying about fees eating into your investment, which is why a lot of people recommend Vanguard where some of their mutual funds have no fees for buy orders AND .05% fees. That's huge when some investment firms ask 1-3% or more.

Not much else to say really, hope you learned something.