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Why Is the Fed Slashing Rates in a Strong Economy? Why Investors Are Worried And a 'Goldilocks' Jobs Report Is the Key

In September 2024, the Federal Reserve made a surprising move by slashing interest rates by 50 basis points—a bigger cut than most economists had predicted. While rate cuts are usually a sign of an economic slowdown, U.S. GDP remains relatively strong, leaving many market watchers puzzled. So, why the rate...

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Latinas Are Powering U.S. Economic Growth, Outpacing Non-Hispanic Growth

Latinas' economic output surpasses the entire economy of Florida and places Latina economic output behind only California, Texas, and New York.

Latin Times

Budget squeeze: Digging France out of its fiscal hole

The French government plans to subject the budget to a €60 billion belt-tightening drive next year in the hope of bringing the deficit down to 5 percent of GDP from an estimated more than 6 percent this year. Two-thirds of that sum are to come from spending cuts, and the…

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Israel-Hamas War Causes 86-percent Dive In Gaza GDP: IMF

A year of conflict between Israel and Hamas has resulted in a "devastating impact on the economy" in the occupied West Bank and Gaza, the IMF said Thursday, including a nearly 90 percent drop in Gaza's GDP. "Preliminary official estimates indicate an 86 percent decline in GDP in the first…

International Business Times

Food scarcity in Liberia: how women who run households cope

Liberia, with a population of just over 5.6 million people, is one of the world’s ten poorest countries, with a GDP per capita of US$662.50. The lingering effects of two civil wars (1989-2003), Ebola outbreaks (2014-2015) and the COVID-19 pandemic (2020) have left Liberia short of achieving widespread development goals.…

The Conversation

Trump says Taiwan should spend more on defence – while it waits for $20bn of US weapons

European lawmakers call out Trump’s ‘unnecessary bluster and unrealistic demands’ from Taiwan in the face of Chinese aggression

The Independent UK

French PM vows more taxes and spending cuts to reduce 'colossal' debt

Prime Minister Michel Barnier pledged new taxes and public spending cuts to reduce a "colossal" debt, in a policy address to the French parliament. France's debt reached more than 110 percent of GDP in the second quarter of 2024.

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Waiving the Filibuster to Pass a National Abortion Bill Is a Bad Idea

Democrats will live to regret doing this if they have the votes to do it.

Reason

Coles and Woolies might cop a fine. How big would it actually be?

A back-of-the-envelope calculation brings us to more than the GDP of Australia.

Crikey

New figures show UK economic growth weaker than first thought

The UK economy continued its recovery from recession at the end of last year

The Independent UK

Boeing strike costs U.S. $1 billion of GDP in just two weeks

Over 32,000 striking workers look set to refuse Boeing’s latest offer, but the costs are mounting on both sides.

Fortune

The boomer generation hit the economic jackpot. Young people will inherit their massive debts

Young people in Britain could be forgiven for despairing at the financial pressures they face – and feeling that previous generations enjoyed a much fairer economic environment. Then just to add to their worries about home ownership and a precarious jobs market, along comes the gloomy announcement that the UK’s…

The Conversation

Dollar Recovers Early Losses as T-note Yields Climb

The dollar index (DXY00 ) today is slightly higher due to stronger-than-expected US weekly jobless claims and Q2 GDP reports, hawkish factors for Fed policy that pushed T-note yields higher. Gains in the dollar are limited by strength in the Chinese yuan, which climbed to a 16-month high against the...

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US Economy Grows At Healthy 3% Annual Pace

The American economy showed robust growth in Q2 driven by consumer spending and business investment. Inflation eased, prompting a Fed interest rate cut. Jo...

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Nasdaq Futures Soar as Micron’s Strong Outlook Boosts Sentiment, U.S. GDP Data and Fed Speak in Focus

December Nasdaq 100 E-Mini futures (NQZ24) are trending up +1.33% this morning as market participants cheered forecast-beating quarterly results and guidance from semiconductor giant Micron, while also awaiting a flurry of U.S. economic data and remarks from Federal Reserve officials.

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Britain wants spending and a better NHS, not this obsession with growth. That’s why there’s big trouble ahead

Starmer speaks of a decade of renewal but he is not offering even Labour voters what they clearly want, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty

The Conversation

Business confidence in South Africa: how a 70-year-old survey has given early signals of the economy’s pulse

Business tendency surveys provide very useful indicators of trends within an economy. The information is available well before the official statistics, such as GDP growth, and provides insights into business dynamics that cannot be found elsewhere.

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Top 100 Stocks to Buy: Argentina’s Banco Macro Can’t Keep Moving Higher?

Since becoming a retail bank in 1994, Banco Macro has become one of Argentina’s largest financial institutions. It moved into the top five of Barchart’s Top 100 Stocks to Buy on Monday. Up 228% over the past year, it can’t keep moving higher, right?

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GDP, PCE and Other Key Things to Watch this Week

Last week was a big one, showing a large shift in the Fed's actions as they cut rates by 50 basis points. Here are 5 things to watch this week in the market.

Evening Standard

OPINION - The Standard View: Rachel Reeves must focus on growth, not just doom

Round numbers should be no more interesting or enlightening than any other. But the revelation that Britain’s debt has hit 100 per cent of GDP is unlikely to lift the sense of gloom that has already settled above Whitehall.

Evening Standard

New headache for Rachel Reeves as public borrowing hits 100% of GDP for first time since 1961

The public finances have been put under enormous strain by the costs of responding the triple whammy of the financial crisis, the pandemic and the energy crisis.

The Conversation

Economists have urged Rachel Reeves to loosen the purse strings – here’s why it’s not that easy

A group of economists has publicly urged chancellor Rachel Reeves to reverse her stance on public investment, and relax the Treasury rules that constrain it. They argue in a letter to the Financial Times that low investment is the root cause of Britain’s productivity stagnation, and that the government must…

Evening Standard

OPINION - The one metric where the UK economy beats the US

Money versus job satisfaction. It is the perennial professional quandary, but there may in fact be one exception: central banking. Jerome Powell, chair of the US Federal Reserve, earns $190,000 per year for the privilege of overseeing the greatest economy the world has ever seen. I'm not saying the job…

AAP

'Miserable' GDP result as New Zealand shrinks again

New Zealand's economy has shrunk for the fifth time in the past seven quarters, with an 0.2 per cent contraction in the period to June.

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3 European Stocks to Buy as the Continent’s Economy Recovers

As Europe navigates a complex landscape of slowing inflation, stable employment, and modest GDP growth, it may be an opportune time for investors to consider investing in quality stocks like Novo Nordisk (NVO), SAP SE (SAP), and Novartis (NVS), which are poised to capitalize on the continent’s recovery. Read on….

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