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US Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell holds a press conference after the Monetary Policy Committee meeting, at the Federal Reserve in Washington, DC on March 19, 2025. Roberto Schmidt | Afp | Getty Images The Federal Reserve heads into its closely watched policy decision Wednesday with a strong incentive to do absolutely nothing. Faced with…
US Secretary of Treasury Scott Bessent speaks during the daily briefing in the Brady Briefing Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on April 29, 2025. Mandel Ngan | Afp | Getty Images Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and U.S. trade representative Jamieson Greer will meet with their Chinese counterparts in Switzerland this week to…
President Donald Trump will host Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney at the White House on Tuesday, teeing up a potentially tense meeting as relations between Washington and Ottawa hit their lowest point in decades. “He’s coming to see me. I’m not sure what he wants to see me about, but I guess he wants to…
Workers at a wet market count and return New Taiwan Dollar notes to customers, as Taiwan is expected to show positive GDP and economic growth, amid the covid-19 pandemic, in Taipei, Taiwan, 15 Aug 2021. Ceng Shou Yi | NurPhoto | Getty Images Taiwanese dollar pulled back Tuesday after a historic surge that saw it…
The Ford display is seen at the New York International Auto Show on April 16, 2025. Danielle DeVries | CNBC DETROIT — Ford Motor beat Wall Street’s first-quarter expectations, but suspended its 2025 financial guidance amid an expected $2.5 billion impact this year from President Donald Trump‘s tariffs. The Detroit automaker said it expects to offset…
US President Donald Trump leaves after taking questions from the press on the South Lawn upon returning to the White House in Washington, DC, on May 4, 2025. Alex Wroblewski | Afp | Getty Images President Donald Trump has claimed that gasoline prices have fallen below $2 per gallon, in his push to convince the…
U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent speaks at the Milken Institute Global Conference 2025 in Beverly Hills, California, U.S., May 5, 2025. Mike Blake | Reuters Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Monday sketched out the roadmap of President Donald Trump‘s “America First Vision” in a pitch to a roomful of global investors on the future of…
Something unusual is happening in a market long dominated by index funds. Active management is staging a comeback. Take the action in equity exchange-traded funds two weeks ago. Amid more whipsaw action in stocks that has typified 2025 trading, there was a net outflow from equity ETFs. But in a surprise, the selling was mostly…
The crowd reacts during the Berkshire Hathaway Annual Shareholders Meeting in Omaha, Nebraska on May 3, 2025. CNBC OMAHA, Neb. — Berkshire Hathaway shareholders who came from around the world to Omaha for the conglomerate’s annual meeting this weekend had no idea how historic this year’s event would be. Warren Buffett, the billionaire and CEO…
Job growth was stronger than expected in April despite worries over the impact of President Donald Trump’s blanket tariffs against U.S. trading partners. Nonfarm payrolls increased a seasonally adjusted 177,000 for the month, slightly below the downwardly revised 185,000 in March but above the Dow Jones estimate for 133,000, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported…