How the Fed weighs 'political risk' behind closed doors Jay Powell says pending elections don't get discussed at Federal Reserve meetings. Here's what Yahoo Finance found after reviewing years of transcripts. 05/5/2024 - 11:37 pm | View Link
Fed’s Powell keeps the door open for a July rate cut Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell on Wednesday discussed for the first time possible “paths” for interest rates this year. The upshot is that while any move at the next meeting is off the table, ... 05/1/2024 - 11:27 am | View Link
Powell keeps Fed’s door open to a July rate cut Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell on Wednesday discussed for the first time possible “paths” for interest rates this year. The upshot is that while any move at the next meeting is off the table, ... 05/1/2024 - 11:27 am | View Link
Fed's Powell keeps the door open for a July rate cut Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell on Wednesday discussed for the first ... plot' will likely show the majority of Fed officials favor two or fewer rate cuts this year In March, the Federal ... 05/1/2024 - 11:27 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
“Sen. Bob Menendez will be allowed to argue at his federal corruption trial that he thought he was acting for the ‘good of the public’ when helping Egypt and Qatar, while prosecutors will be able to present evidence to the jury that they allege shows the lawmaker and his wife took bribes in a scheme involving the foreign governments to fund their lavish lifestyle.” CNN reports.
“Rep. Henry Cuellar’s (D-TX) indictment marks the third high-profile Hispanic lawmaker to have been indicted in recent months,” Politico reports.
“Critically, the influential Congressional Hispanic Caucus is coming to his defense.”
“That’s a marked difference from how the group treated Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N. J.), a fellow member who was indicted on charges that he and his wife accepted bribes in forms of cash, a car and gold bars to help aid the Egyptian government.
“Donald Trump will return to Minnesota next week as he tries to add the state to his electoral calculations despite two prior defeats,” MPR News reports.
“Trump has reportedly told donors and other associates that he has a pathway to flip Minnesota, a state that Democrats have had a lock on in presidential races for longer than anywhere else.
Prosecutors in Donald Trump’s “hush money” trial said they have “a little more than two weeks of their case left, citing a few Fridays off in the coming weeks,” the New York Times reports.
“After that, the defense can put on a case, but does not have to. And after that, we will get closing arguments and the case will go to the jury.”
“A U. S. soldier was detained in Russia last week,” NBC News reports.
“He had been stationed in South Korea and traveled to Russia on his own and not on official business.”