Your Pulse On America: Live And Unfiltered
A “Now Hiring” sign at a Chipotle restaurant in San Francisco, California, US, on Friday, Jan. 31, 2025. Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc. is scheduled to release earnings figures on February 4. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Private sector companies added more jobs than expected in January, furthering the case for a stable…
U.S. President Donald Trump looks on as he signs an executive order in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, U.S., Jan. 31, 2025. Carlos Barria | Reuters President Donald Trump agreed with the Federal Reserve for its decision last week to leave interest rates unchanged, an early pivot from his previous demand…
Ontario Premier Doug Ford speaks during a campaign stop at Walker Construction in Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada, January 31, 2025. Carlos Osorio | Reuters Ontario will pull all American alcohol from its government-run liquor shelves beginning Tuesday in response to U.S. President Donald Trump’s 25% tariffs on Canadian imports. Outlets of the Liquor Control Board…
U.S. President Donald Trump hold up an executive order, “Unleashing prosperity through deregulation,” that he signed in the Oval Office on January 31, 2025 in Washington, DC. Chip Somodevilla | Getty Images News | Getty Images President Donald Trump’s threatened tariffs against Mexico, Canada and China went into effect Saturday evening, slapping a 25% wholesale tariff on…
Customers shop for food at a grocery store on Jan. 15, 2025 in Chicago, Illinois. Scott Olson | Getty Images News | Getty Images Inflation closed out 2024 on a strong note, as a price gauge the Federal Reserve focuses on came in well above the central bank’s target. The personal consumption expenditures price index…
U.S. economic growth slowed a bit more than expected in the final three months of 2024, the Commerce Department reported Thursday. Gross domestic product, a measure of all the goods and services produced across the sprawling U.S. economy during the period, showed that the economy accelerated at a 2.3% annualized pace in the fourth quarter….
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said Wednesday he has not spoken to President Donald Trump since the newly inaugurated president told business leaders he would demand the central bank lower interest rates. Speaking after the Fed’s decision to hold interest rates steady, Powell said he has had “no contact” with the president since Trump’s remarks…
The Federal Reserve held its key interest rate in check Wednesday, reversing a recent trend of easing policy as it examines what is likely to be a bumpy political and economic landscape ahead. In a widely anticipated move, the central bank’s Federal Open Market Committee left unchanged its overnight borrowing rate in a range between…
Amid the uncertainty of fiscal policy and the persistence of inflation, respondents to the CNBC Fed Survey dialed back their expectations for interest rate cuts but still believe the central bank will ease this year. Among the 25 respondents, 65% see two rate cuts in 2025, equal to the number penciled in by Federal Reserve…
US President Donald Trump speaks to the media after signing executive orders in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on Jan. 23, 2025. Roberto Schmidt | AFP | Getty Images President Donald Trump‘s newly announced tariffs on goods from Colombia could drive up the price of some items Americans buy every…