Asian markets mostly rose Tuesday, with hopes for earnings this week from tech titans helping to offset worries about the Federal Reserve's interest rate plans ahead of the release of key US growth and inflation data.The apparent easing of Iran-Israel tensions after the rivals launched missile attacks against each other continued to weigh on oil prices, while the yen inched slightly higher as Japan again warned authorities had the room to intervene to support the currency.Investors are a little...
TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares mostly rose Friday despite worries about the economic outlook and inflation in the U.S. and the rest of the world. The Bank of Japan ended a policy meeting with no major changes, keeping its benchmark interest rate in a range of 0 to 0.1%. In March, it raised the key []
Stocks sold off sharply Tuesday as anxiety set in ahead of Wednesday's policy statement from the Federal Reserve.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average snapped a four-day winning streak after Boeing's first-quarter results.
AI stocks extend well beyond Nvidia. Data software players like MongoDB,
US stock markets plunged amid fears of stagflation in the American economy, which grew at its slowest pace in nearly two years just as inflation jumped.]]>
AMD reported first-quarter sales on Tuesday that were slightly ahead of
Cannabis stocks surged Tuesday on the news that the U.S. Drug Enforcement
Commerce department says gross domestic product growth decelerated to 1.6% at start of year as consumers slowed spendingAmerica’s leading stock indices came under pressure on Thursday after official data revealed that US economic growth slowed sharply to its weakest rate in almost two years.But as high interest rates take their toll on the world’s largest economy, inflation continues to loom large. Continue reading
This isn’t shaping up to be a great year for Congress — specifically, the House of Representatives, and, still more specifically, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.). After the calamitously bruising battle to send more magic fedbux off to support wars deemed in America’s interest, which saw the speaker side with Democrats over outraged members of his own party, the nation’s legislature plumbed new depths of dissatisfaction among millions of Americans. For many voting citizens, the outrage...
Regular season LaLiga matches could be played in the US within two years after the Spanish league’s president confirmed they intend to push ahead with plans. LaLiga has been at the forefront of discussions about the staging of regular season matches overseas, with the US seen as among the most commercially desirable destinations, and recent []
An already-fraught economic backdrop for the Albanese government’s third federal budget has been complicated by hotter-than-expected inflation data. Consumers were slugged with price hikes for hard-to-avoid expenses such as rents, education fees, insurance and medical bills in the first three months of the year, latest data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics shows. On a […]