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“At the end of the day, the EU needs U.S. weapons to keep Ukraine afloat into its struggle for survival against Russia.”
"The biggest piece in the trade deal puzzle still remains, and the Chinese are unlikely to be as willing to fold."
Investors will not be able to look away over the coming week as every single day could produce significant market-moving news.
Trump said the EU will invest $600 billion in the U.S. and buy $750 billion of U.S. energy.
"The hurdle for the US to experience genuine capital flight is high and certainly wasn’t breached in April."
Unlike the Pentagon and a new weapons system that has blown through its budget, the Fed and its operations are funded differently.
Analysts at Bank of America said that the Japan deal "looks like a reasonable blueprint" for other auto-exporting countries like South Korea.
"Astronomer has gotten a lot of questions over the last few days, and they wanted me to answer the most common ones," she said.
After the first week of this earnings season, 73% of companies beat per-share profit estimates, above the first-week average of 68%, according to...
"Toward the end of the year, the housing market may become a bigger deal for inflation than tariffs," Comerica Bank chief economist Bill Adams said.
"A big tell is that many builders are delaying their land purchases from the land banks. New home sales, starts, and completions will soon fall."
On Tuesday, Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell and Governor Michelle Bowman are due to speak at a banking conference.
"It never quite rang true that consumer spending was completely unfazed by the sudden implementation of tariffs," Wells Fargo said.
"It doesn't occur to me in the slightest that there would be any situation in which I would not complete my term other than dying," Powell said in...
"A technology that can perform endless complex calculations in zero-time, warp-speeding human knowledge and development."
"As a big business owner looking at rates at 1% or 2%, I'm definitely saying, 'what do you know that I don't?'"
Economists at Goldman Sachs expect companies will pass on 70% of tariff costs to consumers via higher prices.
After Wall Street previously downplayed risks from President Donald Trump's trade war, investors are starting to take his tariff threats more...
"The days of the world letting America live beyond its means are rapidly coming to an end."
LinkedIn cofounder and top Democratic donor Reid Hoffman said he's "very sympathetic" to Musk's core cause of reining in deficits.
The latest spat between the Trump administration and the Federal Reserve is sounding more like a home-improvement reality TV show.
Families can contribute up to $5,000 a year into Trump accounts, with employers allowed to chip in up to $2,500 of that amount.
"I, like many other longtime doves, am joining the hawks, because our nation’s budget math just got a lot more dangerous."
"Markets appear to believe that Trump will again back down. We are not so sure."
"AI is not destiny. We must choose wisely. We must design intentionally. And we must keep humans at the centre of this revolution."
Jerome Powell actually wears two hats: He is chair of the Fed's board of governors and chair of the Federal Open Market Committee.
While markets expected an extension ahead of the July 9 end to the tariff reprieve, administration officials signaled there will be just a few weeks'...
"A new economic order is forming—which means that it is not yet fixed and can still be shaped."
"I don’t want to be crawling over people, so I tend to sit on the aisle so I can get out and do stuff."
"That's why investing is important because generational wealth has to start somewhere," economic commentator Kyla Scanlon said.
Wells Fargo sketched out a hypothetical scenario where the world is divided into three trading blocs led by the U.S., China, and the EU.
"Hiring an entry worker at a tech company has fallen 50% since 2019. Is that really where we want all of our kids to go?"
Relatives of prominent Texas politicians, including President Lyndon Johnson, have attended the camp over the years.
Trump said that about “10 or 12” tariff letters would go out Friday, with additional letters coming “over the next few days.”
More fiscal sticker shock could send Treasury yields higher and add more pressure on the dollar, which is already down 10% this year, its worst...
Wall Street will begin a holiday-shortened trading week after the S&P 500 and Nasdaq notched new record highs on Friday.
"I don't think that we should have billionaires, because, frankly, it is so much money in a moment of such inequality," Mamdani said.
"I'm gonna send letters. That's the end of the trade deal."
"If he or she contradicts what Powell is saying, that will aggravate the FOMC, almost all of whose members will still be there when the new chair...
The latest Case-Shiller home price report showed a 0.3% monthly fall in the 20-city index in April, steeper than March's downwardly revised 0.2% dip.
"It’s a setup that works fine when confidence is high, but in shaky times like 2025, it can become a pressure cooker."
Where would the S&P 500 be today if Trump hadn't shocked Wall Street with much steeper-than-expected tariffs?
About 20 million barrels of oil a day flow through the Strait of Hormuz, or the equivalent of 20% of global petroleum liquids consumption.
"And then it's not the U.S. and ongoing war. Rather it's a big win. It's not peace, but it's a big win for Trump. And it's an even bigger win for the...
"It will take some time for this conflict to settle, but the market will view the worst is now in the rear-view mirror," Dan Ives wrote.
"Perhaps they should follow President Trump's lead and give peace a chance," Vance said.
Based on the closing price of Brent crude on Friday, a 10% jump would send the global oil benchmark to nearly $85 per barrel.
"They can strike US embassies and bases, attack oil facilities in the Persian Gulf, mine the Strait of Hormuz, or rain missiles on Israel—but the...
While consumer sentiment recovered a bit after Trump postponed his highest tariff rates, it's still 20% below December 2024 levels.
"While the war between Israel and Iran can always escalate, conflicts are not usually a sustained bullish price driver."