Should the federal reserve lower interest rates next month?

A month ago, analysts were predicting that S&P 500 earnings growth for the second quarter would come in at a sluggish 5% year-on-year, says Sam Goldfarb in The Wall Street Journal. The spring period w

“We’ll have a majority [on the Federal Reserve Board] very shortly… People are paying too high an interest rate… We have to get the rates down a little bit,” says Donald Trump. The US president isn’t

Over the past couple of weeks, we have seen unusually open debates and divergent views about the path of short-term interest rates among the committee members of the US Federal Reserve (the Fed) and t

Issue of the week: the battle for the ...

When bad news is just bad news not good news for markets

There are concerns legal case against Lisa Cook is politically-motivated