Asian stocks pull back, dollar regains footing ahead of U.S. payrolls data By Reuters

[ad_1] © Reuters. Men walk past an electric board displaying Nikkei and other countries’ indexes outside a brokerage in Tokyo, Japan January 16, 2023. The characters on the screen reads,”government bonds”. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon By Stella Qiu SYDNEY (Reuters) – Asian shares turned lower and the dollar regained some of its footing on Friday, as disappointing … Read more

Forget Cash ISAs! I can get 6% a year from these two income stocks

[ad_1] Image source: Getty Images The FTSE 100 is crammed full of income stocks that offer sky-high dividend yields that thrash the returns on cash. I’d much rather buy them to build retirement wealth than save into a Cash ISA, even though the Bank of England has just hiked base rates to 4%. Why put … Read more

US Stocks Surge as the Fed Slows Its Pace of Interest Rate Hikes

[ad_1] US stocks surged yesterday and look set for fifth consecutive weeks of gains after the Fed slowed down its pace of interest rate hikes and announced a 25 basis point rate hike. In the December meeting, the Fed raised rates by 50-basis points. Prior to that, the US central bank had raised rates by … Read more