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The new head of the central bank inadvertently spilled the beans on what's likely coming regarding interest rates.
(Updates prices in the second and final paragraphs.) Gold traded lower Wednesday as renewed fight
By Jonathan Stempel July 8 (Reuters) - Deere agreed on Wednesday to settle a lawsuit by the Federal Trade Commission and five U.S. states accusing the farm equipment maker of illegally requiring
The planemaker now expects 42,060 industry-wide passenger jet deliveries through 2045, down 1% from its previous rolling forecast
Gold traded lower early Wednesday as renewed fighting between Iran and the U.S. boosted oil prices a
The discount retailer is lowering thousands of prices, but grocery chains are too. The problem: Americans have lost their patience, and so has Wall Street.
Trump claims credit for the retailer's summer rollbacks -- a reversal from May, when he told Walmart to "eat the tariffs" instead.
Walmart shares gained Tuesday after the retailer announced plans to lower prices on thousands of items across its namesake stores and its warehouse retailer Sam’s Club.
Brace for volatility as SpaceX joins the Nasdaq-100, Waller defends Fed’s use of forward guidance, and more news to start your day.
<body><p>STORY: Walmart said Monday it would cut prices on many summer barbecue favorites, including meat, chips and soda.</p><p>The move comes after U.S. President Donald Trump said the retailer was acting at his administration's request.</p><p>In a Truth Social post, he said Walmart would be lowering prices significantly, "to celebrate our great Country's 250th birthday."</p><p>Trump said the firm would, “be dropping the price for a pound of ground beef by almost 15%.”</p><p>Walmart said in a statement that the price of one pound of 73% ground beef roll would drop to $5.94 from $6.74 in its stores, a decline of about 12%.</p><p>The retailer also said it lowered prices on items including Coca-Cola and PepsiCo sodas and chips.</p><p>Prices for steaks and hamburger meat soared after a persistent drought burned pasture lands and hiked costs of cattle feed, forcing U.S. ranchers to slash their herds.</p><p>Now the price cuts mark a notable shift from last year, when Walmart warned that tariffs would push some prices higher, a move Trump had rebuked.</p><p>The president had previously encouraged low-tariff imports of Argentine beef to cool U.S. prices, which angered American ranchers.</p><p>He had also directed the Department of Justice to investigate whether U.S. meatpackers were colluding to raise prices.</p><p>Walmart is widely viewed by economists and investors as a gauge of U.S. consumer health because of its size and broad customer base.</p></body>
Bitcoin rebounds near $64,000 after Strategy's BTC selloff as options and ETF flows turn bullish ahead of Fed minutes.
The setup for iShares MSCI Brazil ETF (NYSEARCA:EWZ) in 2026 only looks obvious in hindsight. Brazil’s central bank spent much of last year holding the Selic at 15%, one of the highest real rates in the world, and has now started cutting with a cautious 25-basis-point move. EWZ is up roughly 11% year to date ... EWZ Could Be 2026’s Sleeper Trade, If Brazil’s Rate Cuts Don’t Get Derailed
Crude oil has fallen back into the $60-$70 range, inflation fears are fading, and traders are pricing in a less restrictive Fed. Could Treasury yields be the next market to catch up? We break down the fundamentals, seasonals, and technicals, pointing toward lower yields into early September.
The chief executive officer of private credit fund BlackRock TCP Capital Corp. is departing the firm during ongoing losses, significant asset markdowns and federal scrutiny over valuation practices. Sources familiar with the matter revealed to Bloomberg that Phil Tseng will...
Markets overreacted to Warsh’s comments, Visser said, and expects the Fed to hold, citing AI-driven productivity as the rationale against near-term rate rises.
Federal employees are traditionally forbidden from endorsing companies — the U.S. Office of Government Ethics issued a reminder right before Trump first took office — but presidents enjoy immunity to many such rules.
Micron Technology just delivered the best quarter in its history. However, three days later, a federal courtroom in California turned that story upside down. A class-action lawsuit filed on June 25 accuses Micron (MU), Samsung, and SK Hynix of secretly restricting memory chip supply to inflate ...
The US labor market added just 57,000 jobs in June, below expectations. Morning Brief Host Brooke DiPalma welcomes Business Insider Today Executive Editor and Anchor Dan DeFrancesco to break down the report and what it means for the economy.
The June jobs report delivered two surprises with the unemployment rate unexpectedly falling even as hiring tumbled. Following the data, S&P 500 futures strengthened, while the two-year Treasury yield, which is linked to the Fed interest-rate outlook, climbed as markets digested the implications for future rate hikes. Because the Federal Reserve has stopped providing forward guidance under new Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin Warsh, creating uncertainty about future policy moves, markets could be a bit volatile.
CMA CGM expands North American logistics while FedEx sharpens focus on its core parcel business.
Investing.com - U.S. stock futures were mixed on Thursday as investors awaited a closely watched U.S. employment report that could help shape expectations for Federal Reserve interest rate policy in the months ahead.
A fourth straight month of gains above 100,000 would represent a run of job growth not seen since the start of 2024
Asian markets mostly fell on Thursday as a heavy sell-off in chip shares spread across the region, while European stocks opened flat and US futures pointed lower ahead of a closely watched American jobs report.View on euronews
U.S. private employers added 98,000 jobs in June, according to ADP, as investors await Thursday’s payrolls report for clues on the labor market and interest rates.
JPMorgan Chase (NYSE:JPM) posted a fortress quarter as passive flows shovel capital into the iShares Russell 2000 ETF (NYSEARCA:IWM). JPM printed record markets revenue while the Russell reconstitution funneled $334 billion of mechanical buying into 2,000 small-cap names. Stacking the bank’s pristine balance sheet against a basket of floating-rate borrowers shows where defensive power sits ... Passive Indexers Are Shuffling Billions Into the Russell 2000 Just in Time for a Brutal Fed Reality Che
Bullion climbed 0.6% as investors weighed possible Fed rate hikes and advancing US-Iran technical talks.
FedEx (FDX) has agreed to sell its supply chain subsidiary to French shipping and logistics firm CMA
Alcoa shares are on track for their worst day since President Trump announced sweeping tariffs in April 2025, trading as much as 12% lower after the Pittsburgh company said it would pay up to $5.6 billion for bauxite, alumina and aluminum assets in South Africa, Australia and Brazil. The BHP spinoff will receive $3.1 billion in cash, newly issued Alcoa stock worth roughly $1 billion that it plans to distribute to shareholders and future payments that could reach $750 million. The deal comes amid a decline in aluminum prices from near record highs reached when fighting in the Persian Gulf blocked the region's aluminum smelters from global markets.
The deal would nearly triple the size of CEVA Logistics' North American contract logistics operations and includes multiyear air and ocean freight agreements
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