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Wall Street cautions against firing Powell, Nvidia's geopolitical balancing act pays off, and banks score an 'A' from ...

Apart from the boost which an interest rate cut would provide for the speculators in financial markets, one of the factors in ...

TRADING DAY Making sense of the forces driving global markets By Jamie McGeever, Markets Columnist Another batch of upbeat U.S. economic data including solid retail sales boosted risk appetite on ...

“It’s by now widely agreed, almost all over the world: If you leave monetary policy in political hands, you’ll get too much inflation,” Alan Blinder, a professor of economics at Princeton University ...

Consumers' inflation expectations, by some measures, are also the highest in decades. Inflation has been above the Fed's 2% ...

Top voices on Wall Street have expressed alarm over the idea that Trump could fire Fed Chair Jerome Powell, emphasizing the ...

In 1997, billionaire Carlyle co-founder David Rubenstein hired a then-relatively unknown member of the George H.W. Bush ...

Trump has called for aggressive cuts. Powell and the Federal Open Market Committee, which sets rates, have taken a wait-and-see approach on interest rates, partly due to concerns about how Trump's ...

Some of the biggest names on Wall Street are getting louder about the importance of an independent Federal Reserve as the White House pressure on Jerome Powell intensifies. JPMorgan Chase (JPM) CEO ...

Crypto bills advance to debate, United Airlines earnings beat expectations, Labubu dolls give Pop Mart a boost, and more news ...