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Markets

Is the Dollar Resting, or Nailed to Its Perch?

Tariff uncertainty must end to determine whether there’s still life in the old bird.

Fed Chair Powell Speaks At Federal Reserve IF 75TH Anniversary Conference

Markets

The US Is Exceptional — When It Comes to Rates

The Fed is expected to maintain its pause as the gap widens with other central banks.

Markets

Central Banks Started a Rates Descent They Can’t Finish

The Fed’s cold feet on cuts shows that the world is down from a peak, but the changing terrain is no less dangerous.

Economics

Swing-State Consumers Hurt More Than Most in Credit Card Squeeze

An ice climber screws in an ice screw anchor as he rappels down a 160' high ice wall in the Ouray Ice Park

Markets

Fed’s Rates Descent Can Start With a Step or Jump

The odds are 50-50 on a jumbo 50 basis points, but either way Powell won’t be alone at the peak any longer.

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Markets

When Will the Fed Finally Start Down the Mountain?

The US looks lonelier than ever at peak rates. The FOMC’s options seem to be a first cut, or a step toward it.

Trading At The NYSE As S&P 500 Hits 5,500 After Encouraging Economic Data

Markets

What to Expect When You’re Expecting Earnings

The non-Magnificent Seven may have their day. Meanwhile, China needs to get back on track quickly before an increasingly likely Trump 2.0

Fed Chair Jerome Powell Testifies Before Senate Banking Committee

Markets

Cuts Are Back in the Air After Inflation Surprise

So what if Powell’s congressional testimony was boring? He’s now got the data he needs, and markets are penciling in September.

Markets

For the Descent, Follow the Dots

While the Fed still plots its course down from high rates, other central banks are starting off on their own.

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Markets

The Fed Won’t Climb Down Yet. Others Can’t Wait

Our series on The Year of Descending Dangerously shows big central banks can’t hang on forever for the US to start cutting rates — but still fear going first.

Economics

The Great Rates Descent Will Be Nasty, Brutish and Long

In a new monthly project, Points of Return will track the world’s perilous journey out of the most far-reaching inflation and interest-rates turmoil in decades.

Indonesian Presidential Candidate Prabowo Subianto Campaign Rally

Markets

Balancing Act Makes Indonesia an Emerging-Markets Darling

The archipelago has successfully kept both China and the US happy. Investors hope that will continue after Wednesday’s election.

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Society

US Medical Schools Grapple With First Admissions Since End of Affirmative Action

New scholarships, outreach efforts attempt to offset impact on pipeline for Black doctors.

Central Banks

Inflation Headed Wrong Way for African Rate-Cut Prospects

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Equality

Abortion Workers, Crushed by Restrictions and Buoyed by Labor Movement, Are Unionizing

At least eight reproductive health-care groups have organized since the Supreme Court overturned Roe

A Job Fair Ahead Of Jobless Claims Figures

Equality

Want a Diverse Workforce? Ditch the Personality-Based Feedback: Equality

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Equality

Low-Quality Feedback Drives Underrepresented Workers to Look for New Jobs

Women and people of color report getting less helpful performance reviews than White men

Walgreens Boots Alliance CEO Rosalind Brewer At DC Economic Club

Corporate Leadership

S&P 500 Loses Its Sole Black Female CEO With Walgreens Departure

Growing opposition to corporate diversity efforts may weigh on future promotions.

Society

Consumer Companies From Levi to Target Brace for a Hit From Student Loan Repayments

The bills are set to worsen a squeeze on shoppers from higher prices and lower savings.

Equality

Companies Are Using Diversity Language More in US Job Postings

The pickup suggests businesses are looking past pressure from anti-DEI movements.