WSJ's Take On the Week
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What This Week’s Jobs Reports Could Tell Us About the State of the Consumer
03 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This week, we’re expecting the JOLTS and nonfarm payrolls reports. With inflation still holding above the Fed’s target and some weakness in the la...
What Paramount’s Earnings Report Could Tell Us About the State of Streaming
25 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This week, we’re looking ahead to Paramount Global’s earnings report. The company that includes TV, movies, and streaming, has been taking it on t...
ARK Invest's Cathie Wood: AI Boom is Real, But Still Selling Nvidia
18 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Chipmaker Nvidia is having a strong start to the year. The company is currently the best performing stock in the S&P 500 for 2024 and the third-larges...
BlackRock’s Rick Rieder on Bitcoin, the Fed and His Big Worry in 2024
15 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
BlackRock’s Rick Rieder leads the $10 trillion asset manager’s global asset allocation team and he’s excited about a return to normalcy in 2024....
Will DoorDash Deliver the Economy a Romantic Dinner this Valentine’s?
11 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Why will DoorDash’s earnings report deliver a better check-up for the U.S. economy than Marriott, Coca-Cola and Kraft-Heinz this week? Because the...
What Shifting Consumer Habits Mean For CVS, Pepsi, and Beyond
04 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This week, multinational food, snack, and beverage company, PepsiCo is set to release their fourth quarter financial results. The soda maker has made ...
What This Week’s Fed Rate Decision and Tax Season Means for Investors
28 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This week, the Federal Reserve's rate-setting committee is expected to release a decision on interest rates. When will the central bank finally begin ...
How The White House is Prioritizing Economic Policies for 2024
24 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
As we look ahead to what this year will hold for the markets, one question looming is the results of November's presidential election. While nothing i...
Are Things Getting Better For Businesses? NABE's Outlook for 2024
21 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What are business owners' biggest worries and how are they feeling about the economy? This week, the National Association for Business Economics, or...
Will Home Prices Drop in 2024? What Zillow’s Co-Founder Sees Ahead
14 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Zillow co-founder Spencer Rascoff joins us this week to talk about housing and the state of tech and investing in private markets. Although mortgage r...
What the New Year Holds for Small Businesses and Big Banks
07 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Investors are bullish on big companies, but what about the small ones that drive almost half of U.S. economic activity? Arlan Hamilton leads a venture...
Take On the Year: What to Expect in Markets and Money in 2024
31 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The new year is upon us, and this week we’re telling you what you need to know to make sense of the markets as we head into 2024. It’s our final e...
Interest-Rate Cuts Coming? Chicago Fed’s Austan Goolsbee Has Thoughts
20 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The financial markets seem convinced that interest rates are poised to come down next year. But officials at the Federal Reserve aren’t committing t...
Still Have Inflation Concerns? Spending Data May Offer Insight
17 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week, we’re getting data from the Federal Reserve's favored measure of inflation, the personal consumption expenditures report, or PCE. While s...
How The Fed Is Moving the Markets Beyond Interest Rate Hikes
10 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week, we’re getting the fourth-quarter earnings from Photoshop creator, Adobe. The company’s announcement in October of new AI tools and serv...
What the Jobs Report and Consumer Spending Tell Us About the Economy
03 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week, we’re turning our attention to the jobs report. The Labor Department is expected to release their monthly jobs report this Friday. The re...
What Third-Quarter Earnings Tell Us About What’s Next for Markets
26 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
About 95% of companies in the S&P 500 have reported third-quarter earnings. So this week, we’re having a roundtable conversation to discuss what we ...
Why Consumers Are Buying Flights Instead of Gifts This Holiday Season
19 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week is Black Friday, which means it’s the unofficial kickoff of the holiday shopping season. The big question many economists want to know is ...
Taking the Measure of Consumer Spending at Home Depot
12 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week, we're grabbing our toolboxes and heading to Home Depot. The home improvement retailer is expected to report earnings on Tuesday. Jinjoo Lee...
Why Mohamed El-Erian Is Worried About a 2024 Recession
08 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Mohamed El-Erian is one of the world’s most respected economists and he has growing concerns about a recession in 2024. El-Erian previously served a...
Snap, Crackle, Drop. What Kellogg's Split Says About the Snack Business.
05 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week, we’re turning our attention to breakfast cereals and snacks. Kellogg, the company responsible for cereals like Frosted Flakes and snacks ...
Looking Ahead to This Week’s Fed Meeting and the Future of Crypto
29 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week, we’re opening up our digital wallets and examining the current state of crypto. Wall Street hasn’t been talking much about crypto this ...
From Recession Fears to Too Good? What This Week’s GDP Data Will Tell Us
22 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week, we're looking ahead to the GDP data for the third quarter of 2023 to find out how much the American economy grew from July to September. Th...
A Key Fed Official on What’s Next for Interest Rate Hikes
15 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week, we’re looking at what the Federal Reserve is watching as it plots the course of interest rate hikes. In their most recent meeting, last m...
Big Banks, Big Yield and a Big Release for Taylor Swift
08 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week, we have banking and the recent rise in government bond yields in focus. Mary Daly, president of the San Francisco Federal Reserve, tells us...
Jobs Report and Student Loans and Strikes. Oh My!
01 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
It’s a new month and quarter, and this week, we’re talking about three big pieces of economic news that could impact your money: the September job...
What Nike Earnings Tell Us About the State of Retail
24 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week, we have our eye on the sneaker giant Nike. The company behind the Lebron 21, Air Force 1 and Air Jordans is expected to report its first qu...
What the Fed’s September Meeting Means for Your Investments
17 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week, the Federal Reserve is gathering to make its latest interest rate decision. The central bank is widely expected to hold rates steady, but t...
You’re Paying More for Your Home. Yes, That’s Inflation
10 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The market’s next move will be determined by what happens with inflation, and this week, we’re looking ahead to the latest Consumer Price Index in...
Introducing WSJ's Take On the Week
05 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
WSJ’s Take On the Week is a new weekly podcast that looks ahead at the events on the economic and business calendar to explain what they mean for yo...