The past year hasn't been kind to the stocks featured in this article. Each has tumbled to their lowest points in 12 months, leaving investors to decide whether they're witnessing fire sales or falling knives.
The low valuation multiples for value stocks provide a margin of safety that growth stocks rarely offer. However, the challenge lies in determining whether these cheap assets are genuinely undervalued or simply on sale due to their potentially deteriorating business models.
Hitting a new 52-week low can be a pivotal moment for any stock. These floors often mark either the beginning of a turnaround story or confirmation that a company faces serious headwinds.
Hitting a new 52-week low can be a pivotal moment for any stock. These floors often mark either the beginning of a turnaround story or confirmation that a company faces serious headwinds.
U.S. producer prices notched their first monthly decline in nearly 1-1/2 years in March as gasoline prices plunged, but tariffs on imported goods are expected to significantly boost inflation in the coming months. Trade tensions have escalated between the United States and China, the main source of imports, making last month's producer price index report published by the Labor Department on Friday dated. The impact of tariffs is already evident in surging prices for steel mill products.
U.S. wholesale prices fell last month in another sign that inflationary pressures are easing. The producer price index — which tracks inflation before it hits consumers — fell 0.4% from February, first drop since October 2023, the Labor Department said Friday. Compared with a year earlier, producer prices rose 2.7%, down from a 3.2% year-over-year gain in February and much lower than the 3.3% economists had forecast.
Inflation breakevens head south amid the Trump trade war.
Inflation breakevens head south amid the Trump trade war.
The rise in long-term bond yields and drop in the dollar may show investors turning away from the U.S. as the best place to invest, Minneapolis Fed President Neel Kashkari said on Friday. "Investors around the world have viewed America as the best place to invest...One of the ways that expresses itself is lower yields," Kashkari said on CNBC.
(Reuters) - Investors pulled out of U.S. bond funds heavily in the week ending April 9 in a broad selloff triggered by fears of a recession and concerns that the escalating U.S.-China trade war could fuel inflation.
