High cost of European exchange data sparks investor revolt
In December, the Plato Partnership – a not-for-profit-organization whose members include large asset managers such as Axa Investment Managers, Blackrock, DWS, Fidelity, Norges Bank, Union Investment and many others, as well as leading investment banks – announced a new venture with...
Do you know what a recession is? Here’s how we’ll know when the next one hits
A slew of weak economic data, increasing trade tensions and slowing GDP growth have flashed signs of an economic slowdown. No one can predict exactly when a recession will occur. If the U.S. economy is in a recession, how will...
US consumer prices were unchanged in September, the weakest reading since January
U.S. consumer prices were unchanged in September and underlying inflation retreated, supporting expectations the Federal Reserve will cut interest rates in October for the third time this year amid risks to the economy from trade tensions. The Labor Department said...
Market may be expecting more rate cuts than the Fed will deliver, meeting minutes show
Some Federal Reserve policymakers expressed concern at their most recent meeting that markets are expecting more rate cuts than the central bank intends to deliver, according to minutes released Wednesday. The Federal Open Market Committee approved a quarter-point rate cut...
Former Trump campaign advisor Stephen Moore: ‘We knew we weren’t going to get 5% growth’
Stephen Moore Andrew Harrer | Bloomberg | Getty Images President Donald Trump is an “exaggerator” who knew his policies wouldn’t generate the 5% growth he had promised while campaigning, according to Stephen Moore, who served as a campaign advisor to...
Weekly mortgage refinances jump 10% as rates drop to the lowest level since August
A home mortgage sign on a Wells Fargo branch in Brooklyn, New York. Getty Images An unexpected decline in mortgage interest rates had homeowners calling their lenders last week, looking to save money on their monthly payments. Refinance demand surged,...
Powell says the Fed will start expanding its balance sheet ‘soon’ in response to funding issues
The Federal Reserve will soon start growing its balance sheet again, a response in part to the jolt to overnight lending markets in September, Chairman Jerome Powell said Tuesday. How the Fed will go about expanding the securities it holds...
The father of the yield curve indicator says now is the time to prepare for a recession
Getty Images Investors, business owners and consumers should be heeding the message that the inverted yield curve is sending, according to the researcher who pioneered the economic forecasting model. Duke University professor Campbell Harvey said people shouldn’t wait for the...
US producer prices post the biggest decline in eight months in September
U.S. producer prices unexpectedly fell in September, leading to the smallest annual increase in nearly three years, which could give the Federal Reserve room to cut interest rates again later this month. The weak producer inflation readings reported by the...
Awards for Excellence 2019: Rise of the regionals
It was quickly obvious that, after the financial crisis, the number of truly global banks would decline. It has. You can now count them on the fingers of one hand. That trend has had a notable impact in developing markets,...
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