Wall St Eyes Debt, Trade Wars, Recession Risks: Fed Survey
President-elect Donald Trump may have campaigned hard against high inflation, but by the time of his Nov. 5 election victory financial professionals had moved on from rising prices and begun worrying about rising U.S. debt, possible recession, and risks to global trade as...
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Firms Must Pressure Trump to Solve America's Fiscal Troubles
Owners of successful private businesses are breathing a collective sigh of relief over last week's election results. Rather than being targeted for making more money than the Biden-Harris administration thinks is fair, or potentially facing the prospect of a newly created...
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US Business Activity Gauge Rises to 31-Month High
A measure of U.S. business activity raced to a 31-month high in November, boosted by hopes for lower interest rates and more business-friendly policies from President-elect Donald Trump's administration next year.
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Trump might name Kevin Warsh as Treasury chief then Fed chair later, report says
A former Fed governor himself, Warsh would move over to the central bank after current Chair Jerome Powell's term expires.
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A Trump Admin Could Strengthen the US Economy
Like many Americans, I woke up after election day to see the outcome of one of the loudest campaign seasons I've experienced in years, if not decades.
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Fed's Goolsbee: Pace of Rate Cuts May Need to Slow
Chicago Federal Reserve President Austan Goolsbee Thursday reiterated his support for further interest rate cuts and his openness to doing them more slowly, remarks that underscore the U.S. central bank's debate that it's not about whether, but over how fast and how far,...
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