Fed rate cut timing in focus

Fed rate cut timing in focus

A trader reacts as a screen displays the Fed rate announcement on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York City, U.S., December 13, 2023.  Brendan Mcdermid | Reuters This report is from today’s CNBC Daily Open, our international markets newsletter. CNBC Daily Open brings investors up to speed on everything … Read more

Fed rate cut path in sharp focus

Fed rate cut path in sharp focus

Traders react as a screen displays the Fed rate announcement on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York City, U.S., December 13, 2023. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid Brendan Mcdermid | Reuters This report is from today’s CNBC Daily Open, our international markets newsletter. CNBC Daily Open brings investors up to speed on … Read more

Warren pushes Fed Chair Powell to cut rates, ease housing pressure

Warren pushes Fed Chair Powell to cut rates, ease housing pressure

Senator Elizabeth Warren, a Democrat from Massachusetts, left, speaks with Jerome Powell, chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve, during a Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee hearing in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Tuesday, Sept. 28, 2021. Kevin Dietsch | Bloomberg | Getty Images Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and three other Democratic lawmakers are pushing … Read more

Soft landing or no landing, economists weigh in ahead of Fed

Soft landing or no landing, economists weigh in ahead of Fed

The Federal Reserve is expected to announce it will leave rates unchanged at the end of its two-day meeting this week, after recent reports showed the economy grew at a much more rapid pace than expected and inflation eased. “In many ways, we already have a soft landing,” said Columbia Business School economics professor Brett House. … Read more

Big Tech earnings on tap

Big Tech earnings on tap

Privately held companies have been left to develop AI technology at breakneck speed, giving rise to systems like Microsoft-backed OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Bard. Lionel Bonaventure | AFP | Getty Images This report is from today’s CNBC Daily Open, our international markets newsletter. CNBC Daily Open brings investors up to speed on everything they need … Read more

Big Tech earnings loom large

Big Tech earnings loom large

A slogan related to Artificial Intelligence (AI) is displayed on a screen in Intel pavilion, during the 54th annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, January 16, 2024.  Denis Balibouse | Reuters This report is from today’s CNBC Daily Open, our international markets newsletter. CNBC Daily Open brings investors up to speed … Read more

What recession? The U.S. economy kept growing

What recession? The U.S. economy kept growing

U.S. President Joe Biden speaks with workers while visiting CS Wind, the largest wind tower manufacturer in the world, in Pueblo, Colorado, U.S., November 29, 2023.  Andrew Caballero-Reynolds | AFP | Getty Images This report is from today’s CNBC Daily Open, our international markets newsletter. CNBC Daily Open brings investors up to speed on everything … Read more

Treasury’s Yellen touts favorable GDP numbers as boon to middle class

Treasury’s Yellen touts favorable GDP numbers as boon to middle class

WASHINGTON — Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen praised the positive economic growth numbers on Thursday as a benefit for the middle class. “Though some forecasters thought a recession last year was inevitable, President [Joe] Biden and I did not,” Yellen said in a visit to the Economic Club of Chicago. “Instead of contracting, the economy has … Read more

Turkey hikes interest rate again to 45% after inflation nears 65%

Turkey hikes interest rate again to 45% after inflation nears 65%

Residents waiting at a bus stop under a large Turkish flag in Istanbul, Turkey, on Sunday, April 30, 2023. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images Turkey’s central bank on Thursday hiked its key interest rate by another 250 basis points to 45%. The hike to the benchmark one-week repo rate was in line with economists’ expectations. … Read more

All eyes on U.S. fourth-quarter GDP

All eyes on U.S. fourth-quarter GDP

A customer visits a supermarket in San Mateo, California, on Dec. 12, 2023. Li Jianguo | Xinhua News Agency | Getty Images This report is from today’s CNBC Daily Open, our international markets newsletter. CNBC Daily Open brings investors up to speed on everything they need to know, no matter where they are. Like what … Read more