Federal Reserve

December 24, 2025

Why Markets Are Growing Comfortable With Higher-For-Longer Rates

Investor behavior suggests restrictive policy is no longer seen as an immediate threat to growth or assets. Financial markets are sending a clear message: elevated interest rates, once viewed as a looming

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World

January 12, 2026

Powell Legal Threats Rattle Global Markets, Fuel Gold Surge

A criminal-investigation threat against the U.S. Fed chair revived fears of political meddling, pushing investors toward havens as oil markets weighed fresh Middle East risk. Global markets started the week on edge

Markets

December 31, 2025

U.S. Stocks Edge Higher as Yields Ease and Tech Leads

Equities found modest support as Treasury yields pulled back, easing pressure on growth stocks while investors weighed mixed economic signals. U.S. stocks closed slightly higher on Tuesday as a decline in Treasury

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Cooling Inflation Is a Reprieve, Not a Bull-Market Blank Check

Softer U.S. price data gives the Federal Reserve room to wait, but investors should resist treating a pause in tightening as the beginning of another easy-money cycle. The latest U.S. inflation numbers

August 13, 2026

Opinion

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Markets Brace for CPI as Oil Keeps Inflation Risk Alive

U.S. equities are entering Wednesday’s session cautiously as investors await July inflation data, with oil near $90 a barrel complicating hopes that easing price pressures will give stocks and bonds room to

August 12, 2026

Markets

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U.S. Yen Intervention Tests Global Currency Coordination

Washington’s decision to sell euros while helping Japan defend the yen signals a more assertive approach to exchange rates and raises questions about cooperation among major central banks. The United States has

August 7, 2026

World

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The AI Sell-Off Is a Discipline Test, Not a Verdict

Investors are right to question the scale of artificial-intelligence spending, but abandoning the sector wholesale risks confusing financial scrutiny with technological failure. The global retreat from semiconductor and artificial-intelligence stocks is less

July 28, 2026

Opinion

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Oil Retreat Lifts Global Stocks Before Fed and Big Tech Tests

Easing Middle East tensions sent crude prices sharply lower and revived risk appetite, but central-bank policy and technology earnings will determine whether the rebound lasts. Global equities advanced on Monday as a

July 27, 2026

Markets

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Tech Selloff Tests a Market Built on AI Optimism

U.S. stock futures weakened as semiconductor shares retreated, oil remained elevated and investors questioned whether strong corporate earnings could justify increasingly demanding valuations. Global markets turned defensive Thursday as renewed selling in

July 16, 2026

Markets

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The Fed Put Is Not Coming Back Soon

Investors expecting interest-rate relief to rescue every market wobble may be misreading a cycle defined by sticky inflation, geopolitical shocks, and unusually narrow equity leadership. The most important market signal this summer

July 9, 2026

Opinion

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AI Has Earned Its Rally, But Not Its Blank Check

The market’s first-half strength shows investors still trust the artificial-intelligence capital cycle, but the second half may reward discipline more than enthusiasm. The most dangerous point in a bull market is not

July 1, 2026

Opinion

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Oil Retreats as Metals Lose Their Crisis Premium

The reopening of Gulf shipping routes has shifted commodity markets from shortage pricing back toward interest-rate and demand fundamentals. Oil’s sharp reversal this week has reminded investors that geopolitical risk can leave

June 19, 2026

Commodities

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Oil Relief Gives Global Markets a Fragile Reprieve

A tentative U.S.-Iran agreement has eased immediate energy-market pressure, but investors remain focused on whether lower oil prices can cool inflation without masking deeper global-growth risks. Global markets entered Wednesday with a

June 17, 2026

World

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Why Markets Are Growing Comfortable With Higher-For-Longer Rates

Powell Legal Threats Rattle Global Markets, Fuel Gold Surge

U.S. Stocks Edge Higher as Yields Ease and Tech Leads

Cooling Inflation Is a Reprieve, Not a Bull-Market Blank Check

Markets Brace for CPI as Oil Keeps Inflation Risk Alive

U.S. Yen Intervention Tests Global Currency Coordination

The AI Sell-Off Is a Discipline Test, Not a Verdict

Oil Retreat Lifts Global Stocks Before Fed and Big Tech Tests

Tech Selloff Tests a Market Built on AI Optimism

The Fed Put Is Not Coming Back Soon

AI Has Earned Its Rally, But Not Its Blank Check

Oil Retreats as Metals Lose Their Crisis Premium

Oil Relief Gives Global Markets a Fragile Reprieve

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