Wall Street ends higher as Fed signals dovish bias; jobs report eyed U.S. stock index futures advanced on Thursday, a day after the Federal Reserve left interest rates unchanged and allayed fears around potential rate hikes, with focus moving to a spate of earnings ... 05/2/2024 - 11:59 am | View Link
S&P 500, Nasdaq end lower after Fed rate decision, Powell press conference The tech-heavy Nasdaq and the benchmark S&P 500 slipped on Wednesday as chip stocks led losses on downbeat results and markets weighed fresh economic data ahead of the Federal Reserve's interest rate ... 05/1/2024 - 12:47 pm | View Link
Dollar Slides and Gold Jumps as Powell Downplays a Fed Rate Hike Weekly US MBA mortgage applications fell -2.3% in the week ended April 26. The purchase mortgage sub-index fell -1.7% and the refinancing sub-index fell -3.3%. The average 30-year fixed rate mortgage ... 05/1/2024 - 10:09 am | View Link
Fed meeting: Dow ends up slightly after Fed rate decision; Powell says next move unlikely to be rate hike The Federal Reserve’s policy statement Wednesday was more “dovish” at the margin than markets anticipated, with no hint of a potential interest-rate hike, according to LPL Financial’s Quincy Krosby. T ... 05/1/2024 - 9:22 am | View Link
Fed holds interest rates at 23-year high as inflation continues to push back timing of a rate cut The Federal Reserve said Wednesday it will hold interest rates at a 23-year high, making borrowing tougher for everything from car loans to mortgages. 05/1/2024 - 9:08 am | View Link
Russian state-affiliated accounts have boosted their use of TikTok and are getting more engagement on the short-form video platform ahead of the U. S. presidential election, according to a study published Thursday by the nonprofit Brookings Institution.
The report states that Russia is increasingly leveraging TikTok to disseminate Kremlin messages in both English and Spanish, with state-linked accounts posting far more frequently on the platform than they did two years ago.
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Such accounts are also active on other social media platforms and have a larger presence on Telegram and X than on TikTok.
(WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden has called Japan and India “xenophobic” countries that do not welcome immigrants, lumping the two with adversaries China and Russia as he tried to explain their economic circumstances and contrasted the four with the U. S. on immigration.
The remarks, at a campaign fundraising event Wednesday evening, came just three weeks after the White House hosted Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida for a lavish official visit, during which the two leaders celebrated what Biden called an “unbreakable alliance,” particularly on global security matters.
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The White House welcomed Indian Prime Minister Narenda Modi for a state visit last summer.
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(WASHINGTON) — An orangutan appeared to treat a wound with medicine from a tropical plant— the latest example of how some animals attempt to soothe their own ills with remedies found in the wild, scientists reported Thursday.
Scientists observed Rakus pluck and chew up leaves of a medicinal plant used by people throughout Southeast Asia to treat pain and inflammation.
When Kabul fell to the Taliban, returning the country to the fundamentalist group’s control after two transformative decades, scores of Afghan women were compelled to flee. Those who remained faced a reality in which they could no longer be who they are: journalists deleted evidence of their work, artists destroyed their creations, and graduates set fire to their degrees.
While the Taliban forced many Afghan women to abandon their workplaces and universities, some chose to fight back.
BEIJING — The death toll from a collapsed highway in southeastern China climbed to 48 on Thursday as searchers dug for a second day through a treacherous and mountainous area.
One side of the four-lane highway in the city of Meizhou gave way about 2 a.m. on Wednesday after a month of heavy rains in Guangdong province.
The British royal family is celebrating Princess Charlotte’s 9th birthday with a new portrait taken by her mother, Kate Middleton.
The image—shared to the official Instagram and X (formerly Twitter) accounts of the Prince and Princess of Wales on Thursday morning—shows Charlotte in a garden, smiling beside a pink flower bush.