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(Editor’s note: The future prices of benchmark tracking ETFs, and the headline were updated in the story.) U.S. stock futures rose on Tuesday after Monday’s lower close, following the announcement of "Project Freedom” by President Donald Trump. The U.S. military said on Monday...

U.S. stocks fell Monday after an Iranian drone strike on a UAE oil facility sent Brent crude above $114 a barrel, increasing expectations of a Federal Reserve rate hike by March 2027. On Sunday night, President Donald Trump announced that the U.S. would “guide” stranded ships safely out...

(Editor’s note: The future prices of benchmark tracking ETFs, and the headline were updated in the story.) U.S. stock futures were mixed on Monday, following Friday’s divergence between the Dow Jones and other benchmark indices. On Sunday, President Donald Trump announced that starting...

Attorney Jeanine Pirro has hinted at potentially reopening a criminal investigation into Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell amid alleged irregularities in the Federal Reserve’s building renovations. Pirro, the federal prosecutor for Washington, D.C., speaking on the...

Wall Street is bracing for a leadership transition. As Jerome Powell’s term as a Fed Chairman ends on May 15, the market is starting to adjust to a new leadership, likely under Kevin Warsh. Historically, changing the guard triggers market anxiety, as investors fear a shift in the “...

Macro investor and the founder and CEO of Azuria Capital LLC, Otavio Costa, is slamming the Federal Reserve's latest inflation narrative, accusing the central bank of using curated data to justify premature interest rate cuts while actual living costs continue to soar. ‘Useless’ Metric...

Apple beat at $111.2B with a $100B buyback. Meta got hit. Powell’s last press conference brought the most divided Fed since 1992. $710 billion. That’s what Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) , Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT), Google (NASDAQ:GOOGL) (NASDAQ:GOOG), and Meta (NASDAQ:META) just told the market...

Gas prices have hit new four-year highs nationwide, with Friday's national average coming in at $4.42. Residents in California are paying $6 or more per gallon. The surge in gas prices could be the start of "demand destruction" and lead to fewer chances of a Federal Rate cut in 2026 and could even...

Professor Steve Hanke, an economist at Johns Hopkins University, called for a constitutional debt brake in the U.S. in an X post on Thursday. He shared a post citing Bureau of Economic Analysis data showing U.S. national debt has crossed 100% of GDP for the first time since World War II. THE U.S...

(Editor’s note: The future prices of benchmark tracking ETFs, the lede, and the headline were updated in the story.) U.S. stock futures shed earlier losses to advance on Friday morning, following Thursday's record advances following mega-cap earnings. Meanwhile, the Donald Trump...

One day after Jerome Powell warned that legal attacks on the Federal Reserve are “battering the institution,” President Donald Trump returned to the offensive on Thursday. Asked by reporters whether he was prepared to take action against Powell remaining on the Board of Governors after...

Borrowing costs across the U.S. are set to remain elevated, as interest rates are expected to stay higher for longer. The Federal Reserve left its benchmark federal funds rate unchanged at 3.50%–3.75%, with Jerome Powell indicating policymakers are in no rush to begin cutting amid persistent...

(Editor’s note: The future prices of benchmark tracking ETFs, the lede, the economic data and the headline were updated in the story.) U.S. stock futures shed earlier losses to advance on Thursday morning, following Wednesday's largely lower close as only tech stocks ended on a positive note...

Jerome Powell used his final press conference as Federal Reserve chair to deliver an unexpected message: he is not leaving the Fed. When his term expires on May 15, Powell plans to remain on the Board of Governors, citing what he called "unprecedented" legal assaults on the central bank — a move...

The Federal Reserve held the benchmark federal funds rate at 3.50-3.75% on Wednesday, in what is widely expected to be Chair Jerome Powell‘s final policy decision before passing leadership to Kevin Warsh on May 15. Governor Stephen Miran again dissented in favor of a quarter-point cut. The...