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Fed Cuts Rates Again: What It Means for Your Wallet

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7 Nov, 2024

Fed Cuts Rates Again: What It Means for Your Wallet


The Federal Reserve on Thursday made its second rate cut of this year, with the decision coming less than two...

Global Central Banks Cut Rates in October, Driven by Geopolitical Concerns: Is the Easing Cycle Over?

World

7 Nov, 2024

Global Central Banks Cut Rates in October, Driven by Geopolitical Concerns: Is the Easing Cycle Over?


The global monetary easing cycle continued its course in October, with central banks across developed and emerging economies taking steps...

Inflation Slows to Lowest Level in Years, But Core Prices Remain Elevated: What It Means For You

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11 Oct, 2024

Inflation Slows to Lowest Level in Years, But Core Prices Remain Elevated: What It Means For You


Inflation in the United States dropped last month to its lowest point since it first began surging more than three...

Inflation Cools Further, Signaling More Fed Rate Cuts: Key Inflation Gauge Falls to Lowest Since 2021

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27 Sep, 2024

Inflation Cools Further, Signaling More Fed Rate Cuts: Key Inflation Gauge Falls to Lowest Since 2021


The Federal Reserve's preferred measure of inflation continued to cool in August, easing pressures on the central bank to keep...

US Fed Cuts Rates: What Does It Mean for Australia?

Business

18 Sep, 2024

US Fed Cuts Rates: What Does It Mean for Australia?


The world’s most important central bank, the US Federal Reserve, has cut its key interest rate by half a percentage...

Mortgage Rates Plunge to Two-Year Low, Sparking Refinance Boom

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18 Sep, 2024

Mortgage Rates Plunge to Two-Year Low, Sparking Refinance Boom


The mortgage rate landscape is undergoing a rapid transformation now that inflation is cooling. For starters, there has been a...

Global Markets Mixed as Investors Await Fed Rate Decision: Tech Stocks Take a Hit

Business

18 Sep, 2024

Global Markets Mixed as Investors Await Fed Rate Decision: Tech Stocks Take a Hit


The markets were mixed on Monday as investors turned to the US central bank’s interest rate decision on Wednesday, and...

Fed Expected to Cut Interest Rates: What It Means for Your Wallet

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18 Sep, 2024

Fed Expected to Cut Interest Rates: What It Means for Your Wallet


The Federal Reserve is widely expected Wednesday to announce its first interest rate cut in years, a move that will...

Fed Rate Hike: Will It Be 50 or 25? The Odds Are In, and the Market Is About to Explode

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18 Sep, 2024

Fed Rate Hike: Will It Be 50 or 25? The Odds Are In, and the Market Is About to Explode


The Federal Reserve is poised to make a decision on interest rates this week, and the market is holding its...

Fed Rate Cut Incoming: What It Means for Your Wallet

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18 Sep, 2024

Fed Rate Cut Incoming: What It Means for Your Wallet


The Federal Reserve is widely expected Wednesday to announce its first interest rate cut in years, a move that will...

Fed Rate Hike: Is It 50 or 25? The Market Is Holding Its Breath!

Business

18 Sep, 2024

Fed Rate Hike: Is It 50 or 25? The Market Is Holding Its Breath!


The Federal Reserve's decision on the interest rate hike is a topic that has the market buzzing. Will it be...

Fed's Biggest Interest Rate Decision in Years: Will It Be a 0.25% Cut or a 0.5% Shock?

World

18 Sep, 2024

Fed's Biggest Interest Rate Decision in Years: Will It Be a 0.25% Cut or a 0.5% Shock?


For all the hype that goes into them, Federal Reserve meetings are usually pretty predictable affairs. Policymakers telegraph their intentions...

Canadian CPI & US Retail Sales: Key Economic Releases To Watch This Week

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17 Sep, 2024

Canadian CPI & US Retail Sales: Key Economic Releases To Watch This Week


The timing of the Fed’s first interest rate cut of the cycle has been the dominant market theme all year,...

Dollar Plunges to 1-Year Low Against Yen as Fed Rate Cut Bets Surge

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16 Sep, 2024

Dollar Plunges to 1-Year Low Against Yen as Fed Rate Cut Bets Surge


The U.S. dollar fell to a more than one-year low versus the yen on Monday, as expectations increased that the...

Foreign Investors Pour Billions into Emerging Markets as Fed Rate Cuts Loom

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16 Sep, 2024

Foreign Investors Pour Billions into Emerging Markets as Fed Rate Cuts Loom


Foreign investors injected a net $30.9 billion into emerging market stocks and debt portfolios in August, driven by anticipation of...

Fed Rate Cut: Will It Be Enough to Avoid a Hard Landing?

Business

14 Sep, 2024

Fed Rate Cut: Will It Be Enough to Avoid a Hard Landing?


The Federal Reserve is expected to cut interest rates at their September meeting, but by how much? This is the...

Jim Cramer Warns Against Investing in AI Stocks: 'We're Only a Couple of Years into Finding Use Cases'

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9 Sep, 2024

Jim Cramer Warns Against Investing in AI Stocks: 'We're Only a Couple of Years into Finding Use Cases'


As Wall Street braces itself for the results of Friday's labor report, CNBC's Jim Cramer told investors not to make...

Asian Currencies Surge as US Rate Cut Bets Rise Amid Economic Concerns

Business

7 Sep, 2024

Asian Currencies Surge as US Rate Cut Bets Rise Amid Economic Concerns


Analysts have raised bullish bets on most Asian currencies after mixed data heightened concerns about economic growth in the world’s...

Global Markets On Edge As U.S. Jobs Data Looms

World

6 Sep, 2024

Global Markets On Edge As U.S. Jobs Data Looms


Markets hit the pause button after a selloff in equities since the start of the week but sentiment remained fragile,...

Treasury Yields Rise as Inflation Data Signals Less-Aggressive Fed Rate Cuts

Business

4 Sep, 2024

Treasury Yields Rise as Inflation Data Signals Less-Aggressive Fed Rate Cuts


U.S. Treasury yields rose on Friday as inflation data reinforced the outlook for a less-aggressive pace of Federal Reserve interest-rate...

Nvidia's Earnings Could Move Markets More Than Powell's Speech: What to Expect

Business

27 Aug, 2024

Nvidia's Earnings Could Move Markets More Than Powell's Speech: What to Expect


Some of the world’s largest technology companies dragged down stocks after a rally that put the market on the brink...

Fed Chair Jerome Powell Hints at Rate Cuts as Job Market Shows Signs of Weakness

World

22 Aug, 2024

Fed Chair Jerome Powell Hints at Rate Cuts as Job Market Shows Signs of Weakness


Jerome Powell, the Federal Reserve chair, will deliver remarks as inflation cools and growth holds up — but as labor...

Powell's Jackson Hole Speech: Will He Signal an Imminent Rate Cut and Spark Market Volatility?

Business

22 Aug, 2024

Powell's Jackson Hole Speech: Will He Signal an Imminent Rate Cut and Spark Market Volatility?


Jerome Powell, the Federal Reserve chair, will deliver remarks as inflation cools and growth holds up — but as labor...

Fed Officials Signal September Rate Cut As Inflation Cools, But Labor Market Concerns Remain

World

22 Aug, 2024

Fed Officials Signal September Rate Cut As Inflation Cools, But Labor Market Concerns Remain


The Federal Reserve is poised to begin easing interest rates for the first time in four years, with policymakers indicating...

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