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S&P Futures Tick Lower Ahead of Key U.S. Inflation Data, U.S. Debt-Ceiling Talks in Focus

June S&P 500 futures (ESM23) are trending down -0.14% this morning after the S&P 500 and Nasdaq 100 closed sharply higher on Thursday as blowout guidance from Nvidia and progress on debt ceiling talks boosted market sentiment, while investors awaited a reading on the Federal Reserve’s preferred inflation gauge.

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What Is the Banking Crisis of 2023? Is It Over?

2023 may go down in the history books as the year America lost faith in its banks. Over the course of a few weeks in the spring of 2023, multiple high-profile regional banks suddenly collapsed: Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), Signature Bank, and First Republic Bank. These banks weren’t limited to…

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Stocks Mixed, Nvidia Soars, Costco Earnings Up Next, Best Buy In Focus, Fitch Rating Warning - 5 Things To Know

Stock futures mixed as ai boosts tech, debt worries clip Dow; Nvidia shares soar as AI powers blowout earnings, outlook; Costco earnings on deck as April sales show modest rebound; Best Buy earnings in focus as retailer shifts focus online and Fitch puts U.S. credit rating on notice as debt…

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S&P Futures Tick Lower Ahead Of FOMC Meeting Minutes, Nvidia Earnings on Tap

June S&P 500 futures (ESM23) are trending down -0.33% this morning after three major U.S. benchmark indices finished the regular session solidly lower as worries about a potential U.S. default hurt risk sentiment, while market participants also waited for minutes from the Federal Reserve’s last meeting.

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Three Considerations for Stashing Cash After Bank Failures

People are understandably nervous about the safety of their cash accounts. The three-bucket method helps you divide your funds based on when you’ll need to access them.

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What Is the Federal Reserve Act? Why Is It Important?

What Is the Federal Reserve Act of 1913?Passed by Congress and signed into law by President Woodrow Wilson, the Federal Reserve Act of 1913 created the Federal Reserve, which is the central banking system of the United States. The Federal Reserve, known colloquially as the Fed, exerts a powerful ...

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Stocks Set to Open Higher as Investors Await FOMC Minutes, U.S. Debt-Ceiling Talks in Focus

June S&P 500 futures (ESM23) are up +0.09%, and June Nasdaq 100 E-Mini futures (NQM23) are up +0.12% this morning as market participants continued to monitor U.S. debt-ceiling negotiations while awaiting the release of the Fed’s favorite inflation gauge and the minutes of the Federal Reserve’s latest policy meeting.

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Stocks Set to Open Lower as Investors Await FOMC Minutes, U.S. Debt-Ceiling Talks in Focus

June S&P 500 futures (ESM23) are down -0.03%, and June Nasdaq 100 E-Mini futures (NQM23) are down -0.14% this morning as market participants continued to monitor U.S. debt-ceiling negotiations while awaiting the release of the Fed’s favorite inflation gauge and the minutes of the Federal Reserve’s latest policy meeting.

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Stocks Set to Open Mixed as Investors Await FOMC Minutes, U.S. Debt-Ceiling Talks in Focus

June S&P 500 futures (ESM23) are down -0.03%, and June Nasdaq 100 E-Mini futures (NQM23) are up +0.01% this morning as market participants continued to monitor U.S. debt-ceiling negotiations while awaiting the release of the Fed’s favorite inflation gauge and the minutes of the Federal Reserve’s latest policy meeting.

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Survey of economists: Inflation will stay high this year, and so will Fed's key interest rate

The Federal Reserve will make only modest progress in its fight against inflation for the rest of this year, even while keeping its benchmark interest rate at a 16-year high, a group of business economists predict in a new survey

The Independent UK

Federal Reserve Chair Powell hints at a pause in rate hikes when central bank meets next month

Chair Jerome Powell indicated that the Federal Reserve will likely forgo an increase in its benchmark interest rate when it meets in June for the first time since it began raising its key rate 14 months ago to fight high inflation

The Independent UK

Powell and Bernanke Talk Fed Policy As Markets Bet On Rate Cuts

Fed Chair Jerome Powell and former Fed Chair Ben Bernanke talk monetary policy in a live panel.

The Street

Stocks Nudge Higher, Powell In Focus, Deere Earnings, Microsoft-Twitter Spat, Regional Banks Rally - 5 Things To Know

S&P 500 rally continues as global stocks catch U.S. Tailwind; Fed Chair Powell speaks in Washington as rate hike bets jump; Deere earnings on deck with industrial demand outlook in focus; Twitter says Microsoft misusing data as AI race heats up and U.S. banks trim Fed borrowing as regionals extend…

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Latest mortgage news: Rates keep climbing

The Federal Reserve raised interest rates again in early May, and mortgage rates have responded by climbing. The average interest rate on 30-year mortgages rose to 6.66% this week, up from 6.58% last week, according to Bankrate’s national survey of large lenders.

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Elizabeth Warren Makes a Major Move to Crack Down on the Fed and Bank Execs

A U.S. Senate bipartisan take : big bank executives don’t belong at Federal Reserve.

The Independent UK

Persistently high inflation is causing a split among Federal Reserve officials over next steps

The stubbornness of high inflation is dividing the Federal Reserve over how to manage interest rates in the coming months, leaving the outlook for the Fed’s policies cloudier than at any time since it unleashed a streak of 10 straight rate hikes in March 2022

Fortune

How CFOs are navigating the debt ceiling standoff

"CFOs need to be prepared with a good risk management perspective," says a former bank examiner for the Federal Reserve.

Ballotpedia

House Oversight Committee holds ESG hearing

Economy and Society is Ballotpedia’s weekly review of the developments in corporate activism; corporate political engagement; and the Environmental, Social, and Corporate Governance (ESG) trends and events that characterize the growing intersection between business and politics.

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A veteran market watcher who saw the Fed creating a disaster in 2008 says 'distortions in the economy' today are still the Fed's fault

Jim Grant has been writing the “Interest Rate Observer” every week since 1983—and routinely making prescient predictions.

Investors Business Daily

Banks: 10 Weeks Into The Bank Wreck. Where Do We Stand? Who's At Risk?

Regional banks remain under pressure 10 weeks after the start of the bank crisis. Regulators, JPMorgan's Jamie Dimon aim at short sellers.

Bangkok Post

US interest rates may stabilise for the year

Local economists say it is possible the Federal Reserve will hold interest rates steady for one year if US inflation and the labour market remain strong.

France 24

The last hike? Fed signals end to rate rises as inflation steadies

Inflation is finally cooling in the US. But has the Federal Reserve really reached the end of its rate hikes? And what does that mean for other central banks? We speak to Susannah Streeter, Head of Money and Markets at Hargreaves Lansdown. She says the Federal Reserve is widely expected…

The Independent UK

US wholesale price data for April points to easing inflation pressures

Wholesale prices in the United States decelerated last month, the latest sign that inflationary pressures may be easing more than a year after the Federal Reserve unleashed an aggressive campaign of steadily higher interest rates

Investors Business Daily

This Might Be Your Last Call At Ridiculously 'Plump' 5% Rates

Cash isn’t trash anymore thanks to 10 hikes to interest rates from the Federal Reserve. But the fattest yields in two decades won't last.

Reason

'Cash Is Independence': Ron DeSantis Slams the Government's Plan for Centrally-Controlled Digital Money

"If you don't trust central authority, then you should see this immediately as something that is very problematic," says the Florida governor.

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