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Emerging market bets split as global rate paths divergeInvestors are changing their strategies in emerging markets. Central banks in Indonesia, Hungary, and Poland are making different moves on ...
US job growth likely slowed in May, labor market seen stable despite oil shockAmerica's job growth is expected to slow in May after strong previous months. The labor market remains stable. Economists believe the Middl...
Powell uses JFK award speech to warn against political pressure on Fed, courts and schoolsJerome Powell, former Federal Reserve Chair, received an award for safeguarding the central bank's independence. He emphasized the crucial ...
Gold edges up on weaker dollar ahead of Trump-Xi talksGold prices saw a slight increase on Thursday, influenced by a weakening dollar as investors closely watched the high-stakes meetings betwe...
US stocks today: Chip stocks lift Nasdaq, S&P to record closing highs; hot inflation kills rate-cut hopesUS stocks advanced with the S&P 500 and Nasdaq hitting record closing highs as AI-linked tech and chip stocks powered gains despite hotter ...
Fed's Collins says rate hikes may be needed to quell inflationSusan Collins, President of the Boston Federal Reserve, recently shared insights on the potential for interest rate hikes if inflation rema...
Wall Street Week Ahead: Surging record-high US stocks to wade deeper into earnings seasonThe U.S. stock market has achieved record highs, fueled by hopes of cooling U.S.-Iran tensions and an anticipated robust first-quarter earn...
US Stock Market: Wall Street futures climb as traders cling to de-escalation hopes, await earningsU.S. stock index futures rose on Tuesday as traders held onto hopes of a de-escalation in the Middle East conflict, while awaiting March pr...
Fed's Collins says it is clear tariffs will drive inflation up near termFederal Reserve Bank of Boston President Susan Collins stated that tariffs imposed by the Trump administration will increase U.S. inflation...
Fed's Collins says tech changes can improve financial system"We must all be attuned to the very real risks and challenges" resulting from technical innovations, Collins said in the text of a speech f...
Wall Street closes lower as investors wait for inflation data"The markets today are just kind of waffling around. And the reason for that is tomorrow is going to be the CPI report for July being relea...
Gold faces third weekly drop on dollar strength, US debt deal hopesGold prices remained near a two-month low on Friday, heading for their third consecutive week of decline, on the back of a stronger US doll...
Fed's Collins open to rate-hike pause at June meetingBoston Federal Reserve President, Susan Collins, suggests a pause in raising interest rates to evaluate the effect of past interest rate hi...
Jerome Powell may face more opposition as Fed choices get tougherWith inflation as high as 9% in the past year, Powell's colleagues were all-in on the fight to curb price pressures, with another 25 basis-...
Fed seen on the fence for interest rate hike at May meetingThat's the read from traders of futures contracts tied to the Fed's policy rate after the U.S. government reported a slight easing in a key...
Fed's Collins says "early days" still in assessing policy impact on economyIt is "early days yet in terms of assessing whether we really have gone as far as we need to go," Collins said in an interview on Bloomberg...
Bullard favours getting rates above 5% 'as soon as possible'Fed officials are mulling a further moderation in the pace of rate hikes following a slowing in US inflation. Consumer prices rose 6.5% in ...
Fed officials stare down markets, say inflation is top focusThis is going to be painful, she said, and unemployment will rise, but to bring down inflation, we are just going to have to move rates up ...
Boston Fed issues guidance for lenders on end of Main Street programThe Fed revised the program several times to make it available to a larger pool of borrowers by opening it to nonprofit organizations and r...
- Bernanke: Bond-buying plan could create 700,000 jobs over two years
The Fed's program is needed to help the economy grow faster and to reduce high unemployment says Ben Bernanke.