What REALLY Happens To The Stock Market When Interest Rates Rise

The panic has already started… Right now, financial headlines are spreading fears of a collapse in the stock market. You see, the US Federal Reserve has started to raise interest rates.  This has led to some commentators saying that rising rates will cause a crash in the stock market. But does history…

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Bond Yields Are Headed Near 4%, Says Ex-Goldman Sachs Chief Economist

According to Goldman Sachs’s former chief economist Jim O’Neill, Bond yields are headed near 4% and not even Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke can stop the “inevitable shock” that’s coming. O’Neill was writing an op/ed column for Bloomberg on Wednesday, entitled, “Can Bernanke avoid a meltdown in the bond market?” He…

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