Share correction, Israel escalation risk, Rate cut delays but inflation falling, Q1 CPI to slow 3.4% Dr Shane Oliver, Head of Investment Strategy & Chief Economist at AMP, discusses developments in investment markets over the past week, economic activity trackers, major global economic events and ... 04/18/2024 - 7:30 pm | View Link
US Economy News Today: Federal Reserve Officials Downplay Rate Cut Expectations Federal Reserve speakers will continue to parse incoming data in public speaking engagements and the Fed's turn toward "higher-for-longer" interest rates put more pressure on the housing market. 04/18/2024 - 8:00 am | View Link
World faces permanently higher interest rates, warns Bank of England official Inflation fell less than expected in Britain last month, official figures show, as Andrew Bailey indicated the Bank of England will begin cutting interest rates this summer. 04/17/2024 - 6:43 am | View Link
News updates from April 12: ECB keeps interest rates on hold; OJ Simpson dies aged 76 Gold’s latest record high has taken the metal’s 2024 gains past 15 per cent, building on its best start to a year since 2017. Wall Street stocks rose on Thursday, marking a sharp reversal from the ... 04/12/2024 - 7:38 am | View Link
Clobbered Fed rate cut bets wipe out even last year’s bond gains INVESTORS wagering on an extension of last year’s global bond gains have been ... expecting under two Fed interest rate cuts this year – a significant backtrack from earlier bets of more than 150 ... 04/12/2024 - 1:21 am | View Link
Former President Donald Trump railed against the gag order Judge Juan Merchan put in place that bars Trump from talking about witnesses, jurors, prosecutors' staff, court staff and the family members of court staff and prosecutors.
House Speaker Mike Johnson speaks to reporters after a bipartisan group of lawmakers voted to advance a bill that provides aid to Ukraine and Israel. Several hardline Republicans, including Marjorie Taylor Greene, were opposed to the bill. Republicans may move to oust him as House Speaker for allowing the vote.
Another prospective alternate juror in former President Donald Trump's hush money trial is excused after saying she couldn't serve and starting to cry. CNN's Kristen Holmes reports.
Republican voters should be absolutely furious with their elected leaders.
As I wrote in 2013 on the fight over Obamacare:
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“Speaker Mike Johnson’s sudden bid to deliver aid to Ukraine came days after fresh intelligence described the U. S. ally at a true make-or-break moment in its war with Russia,” Politico reports.
“It was exactly the kind of dire assessment that President Joe Biden and the White House had spent months privately warning Johnson was inevitable.”
“The Biden administration is considering more than $1 billion in new weapons deals for Israel including tank ammunition, military vehicles and mortar rounds, U. S. officials said, at a time of heightened scrutiny of the use of American-made weapons in the war in Gaza,” the Wall Street Journal reports.
“The proposed weapons transfers—which would be in addition to those in a military aid deal currently before the Congress—would be among the largest to Israel since it invaded Gaza in response to Hamas’s attack that killed 1,200 people, mostly civilians, on Oct.