Fundamental Analysis & Economy News—Complete Beginner Course

Economics studies the economy, which directly influences the stock market; rising economies push stocks higher while downturns pull prices down. Investors use economic news to guide decisions and profit.

Explore how the law of supply and demand drives prices in markets by analyzing demand, supply, and price movements in gas and stock markets.

The Federal Reserve, the US central bank, conducts monetary policy to promote employment, stable prices, and moderate long-term rates. It safeguards financial stability, bank safety, and payments, while protecting consumers.

Explore how inflation signals economic growth with rising prices, leading to reduced purchasing power and potential recession, and examine its negative impact on the stock market from hawkish policy responses.

Deflation signals a shrinking economy as prices fall and consumer spending declines. Firms slow production, risking layoffs, while dovish government and Fed policies often lift the stock market.

Governments and the Fed use contractionary policies to cool an inflationary economy toward equilibrium, and expansionary policies to stimulate a deflationary economy toward equilibrium.

Discover how economic news and data like NFP, CPI, and PPI reveal inflation or deflation, influence Federal Reserve interest-rate decisions, and drive stock prices and earnings reports.

Explore how the Federal Reserve's interest rate decisions—up, down, or unchanged—reflect inflation or deflation and move the U.S. dollar and stock market.

Find where to access interest rate reports and when they are released. Yahoo! Finance, Google Finance, CNBC provide announcements, and FOMC meetings drive market volatility as the Fed chair speaks.

Learn to use interest rate decisions to profit from market moves by predicting direction and selecting puts, calls, or stocks. Trade timing matters: wait until after announcement to reduce volatility.

Explore how nonfarm payrolls (NFP) report monthly job gains, compare expected and actual figures, and learn the release timing on the first Friday before market open.

The nfp shows whether the economy is growing or shrinking by monthly jobs data, signaling inflation when growing and deflation when shrinking.

Discover how the Fed uses contractionary or expansionary policy by adjusting interest rates in response to the NFP report, shaping inflation, growth, and the dollar.

Explains how Federal Reserve interest rate decisions affect the stock market, with rate hikes triggering declines and rate cuts boosting prices.

Learn how to use NFP and Fed rate expectations to profit from stock moves by buying puts or shorting stocks when rates rise, or buying calls when rates fall.

Understand how the consumer price index tracks monthly price changes for goods, signals inflation or deflation, and reports the expected versus actual CPI released monthly on the first Tuesday.

CPI reveals monthly consumer prices, indicating whether the economy grows or shrinks, thus inflating or deflating, and how the Fed sets policy in response.

Explore how the Federal Reserve responds to CPI data by adjusting interest rates. Raise rates when growth and inflation rise, and lower rates when the economy shrinks to expand it.

When the fed raises rates, prices respond with a stock market decline; when it cuts rates, prices respond with a stock market rise.

Discover how CPI data informs trades: use puts or shorts on rate hikes, and calls or stocks on rate cuts to profit from market moves.

Learn how the producer price index measures prices received by producers, signaling inflation or deflation, with expected and actual PPI data released monthly before the market opens.

Understand how the PPI signals whether the economy is growing or shrinking, and whether inflation or deflation is occurring, using examples like 0.3% vs 0.2% and 0.2% vs 0.3%.

The Fed responds to the PPI by adjusting rates: raise rates to contract growth during inflation and decrease rates to expand the economy during deflation.

Explain how fed decisions on interest rates affect the stock market and the economy, with rates rising leading to declines and rate cuts leading to gains.

Learn how interest rate changes drive stock moves and how to profit by buying puts or shorting when rates rise, or buying calls or buying stock when rates fall.

Learn how stock news and data move stock prices, gauge impact, and use options—buy calls on expected rises and puts on expected declines.

Understand how earnings reports reveal a company's revenue and profitability, guiding investor decisions and triggering stock price moves, especially when estimates are beat or missed.

Learn to navigate Yahoo Finance to access live market news, stock quotes, and earnings data. Build watchlists, analyze inflation and Fed-related data, and make informed investment decisions.

Explore how Google Finance provides earnings calendars, market trends, and top stock news. Compare its insights with Yahoo Finance and see earnings and analyst opinions for Nvidia and Meta.

Explore how to use CNBC finance to access global economic news, data, and live earnings calls, analyze stocks with charts and tickers, and track central banks, inflation, and market indicators.

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