Federal Reserve

Even as U.S. stocks trade at all-time highs, JPMorgan's new mid-year outlook suggests a quiet storm may be forming under the surface—one that could see gold soar, the dollar weaken, and markets reset in the second half of 2025. S&P 500 May Cool Off—But Not Crash In a report shared Tuesday, the...

JP Morgan Chase & Co (NYSE:JPM) shares are trending on Wednesday. Here’s a look at what’s going on. What To Know: JPMorgan shares traded higher in after-hours Tuesday after the company announced a dividend increase and authorized a new buyback. The company’s board announced...

Wall Street's biggest banks are rewarding shareholders with a wave of dividend hikes and buybacks totaling more than $100 billion, after clearing the Federal Reserve's 2025 stress test with capital left to spare. What Happened: Last week, the Federal Reserve’s annual stress test, which gauges...

Economist Justin Wolfers is warning that President Donald Trump's fixation on low interest rates could set the U.S. on a nightmarish path, one that increasingly mirrors the unrelenting inflation crisis that has gripped Turkey over the past couple of years. What Happened: On Tuesday, the University...

Gold has quietly pulled off a rare feat in 2025, beating Bitcoin‘s (CRYPTO: BTC) returns in the first half of the year by a double-digit margin. As of July 1, gold is up 26% year-to-date, marking its best half-year performance since 2007. Bitcoin has gained 13% over the same period. Since...

A mixed trading session took shape Tuesday on Wall Street, as investors rotated out of high-flying tech stocks and into lagging sectors. By midday in New York, the Nasdaq 100 dropped 0.7% to 22,500 points, while small caps in the Russell 2000 jumped 1.9% and the Dow Jones Industrial Average climbed...

Goldman Sachs analysts are cautiously optimistic about the prospect of major U.S. banks returning more capital to shareholders through buybacks and dividends. Thanks to regulatory changes and strong results in the Federal Reserve's latest stress tests (CCAR), the top five banks are sitting on an...

Goldman Sachs Group Inc. expects the Federal Reserve to deliver three quarter-point interest rate cuts this year, revising its outlook upward amid muted tariff effects and labor market weakness, the Wall Street brokerage said on Monday. What Happened: The investment bank now projects three...

On Monday, U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent responded to a question on whether he was willing to replace Jerome Powell as Federal Reserve chair. What Happened: “I will do what the President wants,” Bessent said in an interview with Bloomberg TV on Monday, when asked about the...

President Donald Trump escalated his war of words with Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell on Sunday, accusing him of keeping interest rates “artificially high” and insisting the benchmark should drop to "1% or 2%”, half of what it is now. What Happened: Appearing on Fox News' "...

Wall Street returned to record highs at the end of June, with both the S&P 500 and Nasdaq 100 breaking above their February peaks, capping a powerful rebound from April's tariff-driven lows. Investor sentiment turned positive as geopolitical and trade risks eased. Oil prices slumped $12 to $65...

Inflation picked up again in May, snapping a two-month slowdown, raising fresh concerns that rising tariffs on foreign goods may start to strain U.S. consumers. The Personal Consumption Expenditures (PCE) price index rose 2.3% in May from a year earlier, matching economists’ expectations and...

Mohamed El-Erian, a prominent economist and former CEO of PIMCO, has voiced significant concerns regarding the Federal Reserve, asserting that it is “getting harder to convince people that the Fed is apolitical.” What Happened: In a recent Substack post, El-Erian identifies three...

China is accelerating its move away from U.S. dollar-denominated assets, with the share of U.S. Treasuries and the Dollar in the country’s reserves reaching its lowest levels in over a decade. What Happened: On Thursday, The Kobeissi Letter, in a post on X, captured this dramatic shift,...