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The Fed Stopped Telling Markets What It Plans to Do Next
The Federal Open Market Committee meets today and the policy rate is expected to stay at 3.75% to 4%, with futures pricing roughly
Daniel Whitmore
A Trillion Dollar Holiday Where Half the Growth Is Just Higher Prices
The National Retail Federation expects holiday sales of $1.013 trillion this season, up 4.2% on last year's $972 billion. That
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A Hundred and Twenty Six Billion Dollars of Tariffs Has Already Gone Back
When the Supreme Court ruled in February that the International Emergency Economic Powers Act does not authorise tariffs, the decision was reported as a
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Central Banks Bought a Record Quarter of Gold and the Price Fell Anyway
Central banks bought 288.9 tonnes of gold in the second quarter, up 62% on the year and more than five times the first
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Memory Chips Cost a Quarter More Than They Did Three Months Ago
Contract prices for DDR4 memory rose 4% in October and 24% over three months, according to Barclays. DDR5 rose 3% on the month and
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A Two Trillion Dollar Company That the S&P 500 Is Not Allowed to Own
SpaceX reported its third quarter on October 20 and the numbers were the kind that usually end an argument. Revenue of $14.6 billion,
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Your Fund Is About to Hand You a Tax Bill for Gains You Never Took
Fund companies publish their estimated year end capital gain distributions during October, and the payments themselves land in November and December. After a year
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Utilities Asked for Nineteen Billion Dollars of Rate Increases in Six Months
Investor owned utilities filed for $18.6 billion of rate increases in the first half of this year. They asked for $29 billion across
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Four and a Half Trillion Dollars of Deals and One Percent Fewer of Them
Global mergers and acquisitions reached $4.44 trillion in the first nine months of this year, up 27% on the $3.48 trillion announced
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