September 22, 2025 United States: US Stocks Take Step Back as Traders Await New Catalysts   US stocks stepped away from all-time highs as a quiet week began with traders looking for new catalysts to push the market further.   The S&P 500 Index fell 0.2% at 9:36 a.m. in New York, after touching a

September 19, 2025 United States: Fed’s Kashkari Sees Two More 2025 Cuts Given Hiring Slowdown   Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis President Neel Kashkari said he supported the US central bank’s decision to lower interest rates this week and penciled in two additional cuts this year.   “I believe the risk of a sharp increase

September 18, 2025 United States: US Initial Jobless Claims Drop by Most in Almost Four Years   Initial applications for jobless benefits in the US dropped by the most in nearly four years, reversing an unusually large jump in the prior week and consistent with low levels of layoffs in the economy.   Initial claims

September 17, 2025 United States: Fed Rate Cut to Mark Pivot Toward Job Market Federal Reserve officials are expected to backstop a faltering US labor market by lowering interest rates Wednesday, marking a shift after worries about tariff-induced inflation kept them on hold all year. The policy pivot will take place amid unrelenting pressure from

September 15, 2025 United States: Stocks Join Bonds Higher at Start of Big Fed Week Wall Street kicked off the week with gains as traders see a Federal Reserve cut on Wednesday as a sure thing, while awaiting validation from officials on bets for a series of reductions extending into next year. Equities resumed their record-breaking run, with

September 11, 2025 United States: US Core CPI Rises as Expected, Keeping Fed on Track for Rate Cut Underlying US inflation rose as expected in August, keeping the Federal Reserve on track to cut interest rates next week. The core consumer price index, excluding the often volatile food and energy categories, increased 0.3% from July, according

September 09, 2025 United States: Economists Expect Another Tepid US Jobs Report, Supporting Rate Cut Economists expect Friday’s employment report to extend the weakest stretch of US job growth since the pandemic, likely locking in a Federal Reserve interest-rate cut. Nonfarm payrolls probably grew 75,000 in August, according to the median estimate in a Bloomberg survey of economists,

September 08, 2025 United States: Trump Asks Supreme Court to Keep Freeze on Expiring Foreign Aid The Trump administration has asked the US Supreme Court to leave in place a freeze on foreign assistance funding, a move that could mean at least some of the billions of dollars at stake in the legal fight will

September 05, 2025 United States: Weak US Payroll Gain of 22,000 Cements Case for Fed Rate Cut US job growth cooled notably last month while the unemployment rate rose to the highest since 2021, fanning concerns the labor market may be on the cusp of a more significant deterioration. Nonfarm payrolls increased 22,000 in August, according

September 01, 2025 United States: Tame US Job Growth Expected in Approach to Fed Meeting Employers in the US showed little enthusiasm to take on workers during August, and the unemployment rate probably ticked up to an almost four-year high, adding to evidence of a more subdued labor market. Economists project about 75,000 jobs were added, based