Susan Collins

The resilient market looks set to open the week’s last trading session on a modestly positive note. Stocks have been mostly higher this week following the release of a tame consumer price inflation report on Tuesday, although the upward move hasn’t been very convincing. On Friday,...

Wednesday is a risk-off session for the U.S. stock market as investors express concern in response to the mounting pressures posed by escalating oil prices and increasing U.S. Treasury yields. WTI-graded crude rose to over $86 a barrel, while the rate-sensitive two-year Treasury yields showcased an...

Wall Street was broadly flat in Thursday midday trading in New York, with the S&P 500 Index attempting to mark its fifth consecutive day of gains as an inline PCE inflation report dispelled expectations of an impending Fed rate hike. The core PCE price index, the Fed’s preferred inflation...

Susan M. Collins, the President and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, acknowledged a “promising sign on inflation.” In an interview with Yahoo Finance, Collins shared her insights on the current state of inflation, the path forward for interest rates, and the challenges in the...

Susan M. Collins, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, reportedly said she was leaning toward a 25 bps interest rate hike at the next FOMC meeting – a slowing down in the pace of rate hike compared to the large increases adopted by the central bank throughout last year in its...

In an effort to determine who are the most liked and least liked-U.S. Senators for 2020, political research outlet Morning Consult surveyed nearly 500,000 registered voters between Oct. 1 and Dec. 31, 2019. “The most popular and unpopular senators are determined by total approval and total...

Health care stocks caught a boost Friday afternoon as the latest ━ and perhaps last ━ effort to repeal the Affordable Care Act (known to many as Obamacare) lost critical GOP support. “I cannot in good conscience vote for the Graham-Cassidy proposal,” Sen. John McCain wrote in a...

Those following the almost year-long drama concerning the health-care reform movement currently stalled in Congress have recently heard of a nasty-sounding word called 'reconciliation'. This week, Republican leadership have labeled it the 'nuclear option' - which makes the term even more ominous....