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Meet Your New Fed Chair: Donald Trump
Yet Reagan didn’t blame the Fed. At a press conference he said the cause was a too-high budget deficit. The real reason turned out to be…
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Fed Governor Refuses to Cave—Vows to Sue Trump Over Firing Attempt
“Indeed, over the past several months, principal officers of the Executive (and their spokespersons) have described federal district…
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US: Wall St opens subdued after Trump's latest attack on Fed
Wall Street’s main indexes opened slightly lower on Tuesday (Aug 26), pressured by a rise in longer-dated Treasury bond yields after US…
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Trump says he is removing Lisa Cook from the Fed board
President Trump said Monday he is removing Lisa Cook from her position as a governor on the Federal Reserve board, saying there is…
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Fed Chair Warns the Economy Is Even Worse Than We Realized
The ruling was in response to a lawsuit from Friends of the Everglades, the Center for Biological Diversity, and the Miccosukee Tribe…
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US: Wall Street opens lower as investors brace for Fed meet; Walmart slides
Street’s main indices opened lower on Thursday (Aug 21), as investors turned cautious ahead of the US Federal Reserve’s three-day…
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Bolivia Is Fed Up with Socialism
Both presidential candidates who advanced to the runoff promise to undo two decades of leftism. Source link
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US: Wall Street opens flat, focus on retail earnings and Fed summit
Street’s main indices were subdued at the open on Monday (Aug 18), in a quiet start to a week packed with corporate earnings reports from…
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Asia: Stocks to gain as US CPI fuels Fed cut bets
STOCKS in Asia were set to track Wall Street higher after an in-line US inflation reading bolstered speculation the Federal Reserve will…
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US Fed chair search expands to include Bowman, Jefferson and Logan
The US Federal Reserve’s two vice-chairs, Michelle Bowman and Philip Jefferson, and Dallas Fed president Lorie Logan are under…
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US: Wall Street opens higher as Fed shake-up stokes dovish bets
Street’s main indexes opened higher on Friday (Aug 8) as US President Donald Trump’s temporary pick for a Federal Reserve governor post…
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Asia: Markets track Wall Street rally on Fed rate cut bets
Stock markets rose on Tuesday as investors grow increasingly confident the Federal Reserve will cut interest rates next month, despite…
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Adriana Kugler resigning from Fed, opening door to Trump appointment
The US Federal Reserve said on Friday (Aug 1) that governor Adriana Kugler is resigning early from her term and will exit the central bank…
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Transcript: Fed Chair Drops Hammer on Angry Trump as Poll Drop Worsens
Downie: Yeah, I think that’s certainly part of it. Trump is also looking for any lever he can to prevent the House, prevent the Judiciary…
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Trump Hit by Harsh Blow from Fed Chair as Polls Reveal Fresh Weakness
President Donald Trump has been raging at Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell for weeks, demanding that he cut interest rates. But on…
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US: Stocks mostly fall as Fed avoids dovish shift
Wall Street stocks finished mostly lower on Wednesday after the Federal Reserve kept interest rates flat and refrained from signaling it…
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US: Wall St opens higher as investors digest GDP data; Fed verdict awaited
Wall Street’s main indexes opened higher on Wednesday (Jul 30) as investors assessed better-than-expected GDP data, and awaited the…
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Trump Team Sabotaged Fed Renovation as Trump Started War With Powell
President Trump’s followers offered a measly defense against The Wall Street Journal’s exposé of the president’s close relationship with…
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Senior Fed official says it will take until autumn to see tariffs’ inflation effect
AS Federal Reserve Bank President Lorie Logan said on Tuesday (Jul 15) that she expects it will take until the fall to understand the…
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Fed Chair Says Trump Screwed Himself on Demand for Low Interest Rates
Donald Trump’s wishy-washy tariffs have been good for one thing: keeping Federal Reserve interest rates high, according to the central…
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Wall Street forecasts windfall for big US banks from Fed plan to ease leverage rule
Large US global banks can expect as much as US$6 trillion in additional balance sheet capacity and billions in freed up capital under a…
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US dollar slips as Trump considers naming next US Fed chair early
The US dollar dipped amid an increase of bets on US interest-rate cuts due to growing expectations that the next US Federal Reserve…
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Asia: Stocks down with eyes on Mideast, dollar hit by Trump Fed comment
Most stocks fell on Thursday and oil rose as traders kept a nervous eye on the Iran-Israel ceasefire, while the dollar dropped after…
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Court blocks Trump's attempt to strip fed workers of union rights
A federal court Tuesday issued an injunction against President Trump's decision to strip collective bargaining rights from a wide swath of…