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It's Fed Decision Day

Powell to Ponder Hawkish Tone in FOMC Debut: Decision Day Guide
– Steve Matthews, Bloomburg Markets
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​Jerome Powell will likely make headlines Wednesday with an interest-rate hike in his first meeting as Federal Reserve chairman. But look to the fine print for his biggest news.
The rate-setting Federal Open Market Committee is expected to lift the target federal funds rate by a quarter percentage point to 1.5 percent to 1.75 percent after its two-day meeting in Washington on Wednesday. A policy statement will be released at 2 p.m. and he’ll host a press conference that begins 30 minutes later...

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"Whether your retirement is comfortable or extravagant will still put you on the winning side of the retirement equation."

The Difference Between Retiring Comfortably vs. Extravagantly
– ​Investor Junkie
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​A reader posed this question — what is the difference between retiring comfortably vs. extravagantly? In a world in which retirement is increasingly being marketed as a trip to the Emerald City, this is an especially relevant question. Let’s look at the differences between the two. The words “comfortably” and “extravagantly” mean different things to different people, but let’s try to come up with a workable difference between the two...

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"It's been a real roller-coaster. A wild ride..."

February was an insane month for the stock market.
– Matt Egan, CNN Money
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A profound inflation scare. Not one but two 1,000-point plunges for the Dow. And a powerful comeback that almost went straight back up.February was easily one of Wall Street's wildest months since 2008. 
The Dow plummeted more than 3,200 points, or 12%, in just two weeks. Then stocks raced back to life, at one point recovering about three-quarters of those losses...

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Here’s some insight into what high inflation can do to a company’s earning potential.

Warren Buffett explains how to invest in stocks when inflation hits markets
– Eric Rosenbaum Editor, CNBC.com
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Warren Buffett has always been a firm believer that staying invested in stocks is the only course. If anything, Buffett, the chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, is famous for the ultimate statement on dip buying: Be fearful when others are greedy and greedy when others are fearful...

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