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Federal Reserve releases 2025 stress test scenarios
With the Federal Reserve eying changes to its annual examination of large bank resilience, this year's test could be the last ...
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CRE Transaction Volumes Should Pick Up in 2025. Here’s Why
The Fed's rate changes in 2024 have set the stage for renewed market activity, says Cliff Booth of Dallas-based Westmount ...
The Fed could itself in a policy Catch-22 if tariffs spike inflation and slow growth
Indeed, markets largely expect the Fed to hold tight for at least the next several months as policymakers observe the reality ...
Trump’s astonishingly wrongheaded notions about trade and tariffs
President Trump’s obsession with the U.S. trade deficit is misplaced, as trade balances don’t matter and tariffs are a tax ...
WaFd's sudden mortgage exit underscores challenges for housing market
Seattle-based WaFd Inc. (Nasdaq: WAFD) and its subsidiary WaFd Bank surprised the finance industry in January with a sudden ...
Inflation will slow this year, allowing Fed to cut rates further, says former St. Louis Fed chief
In an interview with MarketWatch on Friday, Bullard forecast that inflation based on the core personal consumption expenditure index preferred by the Fed would fall to a 2.3% annual rate by the end of ...
Economy Faces Major Challenge Of Sustained High Interest Rates That Need Fixing - Cue Recession
Aggregate US debt is $101.353T, or 3.45x GDP, indicating a historically high leverage that risks recession. Read why ...
Trump is getting the lower interest rates he demanded from everyone but the Fed
The European Central Bank cut rates on Thursday, the Bank of Canada on Wednesday, and the Bank of England is likely to do so next week.
The Fed Holds Rates Steady. Here’s How to Use That to Your Advantage
Hint: You might want to pay down your debts more aggressively.
The Fed’s Preferred Inflation Measure Ticked Up Slightly in December
The central bank needs to see further progress on inflation or weakness in the labor market to resume interest rate cuts.
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Verus CIO Toner says recession worries have eased, but it's too early to tell how Trump’s policies will impact institutional portfolios
In December, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office warned that if Trump slapped a 10% tariff on all imports and a 60% ...
The US economy ended 2024 with cooler growth than expected in the fourth quarter
Real GDP growth in the fourth quarter was short of the expected 2.7% increase.