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Wall Street is hanging near its records following some better-than-expected updates on the economy and a mixed set of profit reports from big U.S. companies. The S&P 500 was up 0.1% in early trading ...
A perverted man from the grave is haunting Donald Trump. While it’s just the ghost of Jeffrey Epstein, he is in a very real ...
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.
The project has exceeded its initial budget. But what the Trump adminstration really wants is lower interest rates.
Photo: Alamy President Donald Trump blasted Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell on Wednesday, calling him a “numbskull” over monetary policy decisions and a costly renovation project at the central ...
ET, the Senate passed about $9 billion in federal spending cuts requested by President Donald Trump, including deep ...
President Trump has become more hostile to the Federal Reserve’s chair. Markets aren’t worried yet, but some on Wall Street ...
Whether Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell is fired next week, forced to resign in six months or allowed to muddle through to the end of his term next May, the supposedly sacrosanct notion of Fed ...
China’s central bank has been buying physical gold to add to its reserves for at least the last three years – and there’s ...
NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with Loretta Mester, former president of the Cleveland Federal Reserve Bank, on President Trump's pressure on Fed Chair Jerome Powell.
The stock market does not want Donald Trump to fire Jerome Powell.
The Federal Reserve was designed to resist short-run political pressure, but it may be defenseless against patient efforts to undermine its independence.