(Headline USA) Global stock markets and Wall Street futures sank Thursday after the Federal Reserve indicated it will raise interest rates soon to cool inflation.
London and Frankfurt opened lower. Market benchmarks in Tokyo and Seoul fell by an unusually wide margin of more than 3%.
The Fed said Wednesday in...
(Headline USA) Wild volatility in the stock market this week has put heightened scrutiny on the Federal Reserve's meeting Wednesday and whether the Fed will clarify just how fast it plans to tighten credit and potentially slow the economy.
With high inflation squeezing consumers and businesses, the Fed is expected...
(Molly Bruns, Headline USA) Pepsi has been named in a report of top corporate donors to politicians and political committees that helped support Texas's heartbeat law through numerous legal and political challenges.
Leftists have already called for a boycott of the company, which has since backfired, Newsweek reported.
This reveal was made...
(John Ransom, Headline USA) Preparing for what might be in historic rout in the 2022 midterm elections, President Joe Biden is working on his ready-made excuse for why the economy and the Democrats are doing so poorly: it’s the Federal Reserve’s fault.
So far the only thing that Biden has said...
(The Center Square) Newly released economic data show a surge in first-time unemployment claims last week, much higher than experts predicted.
The Department of Labor reported that for the week ending Jan. 15, a total of 286,000 Americans filed first-time unemployment claims, an increase of 55,000 from the previous week.
“The...
(Headline USA) Airlines across the world, including the long-haul carrier Emirates, rushed Wednesday to cancel or change flights heading into the U.S. over an ongoing dispute about the rollout of 5G mobile phone technology near American airports.
The issue appeared to particularly impact the Boeing 777, a long-range, wide-body aircraft...
The Union Pacific (UP) railroad, in a letter to Los Angeles District Attorney George Gascon, said it may discontinue service to LA after videos of the looting went viral according to a letter obtained by local CBS News and published on Twitter.
“UP considering rerouting it’s trains out of LA...
(Headline USA) On an isolated farm, greenhouses stand in regimental order, sheltered by a fringe of trees.
Inside are hundreds of head-high cannabis plants in precise rows, each rising from a pot nourished by coils of irrigation tubing. Lights powerful enough to turn night into day blaze overhead.
In the five...
(Gregg Pupecki, Headline USA) In a unexpected move Minnesota Bank & Trust and their parent company Heartland Financial USA informed Mike Lindell that they want all of his banking accounts closed.
This involves nine of his businesses and charities. The bank gave him 30 days to close the accounts...
(Headline USA) For the first time in half a year, families on Friday are going without a monthly deposit from the child tax credit---a program that was intended to be part of President Joe Biden's legacy but has emerged instead as a flash point over who is worthy of...
(Headline USA) President Joe Biden will nominate three people for the Federal Reserve's Board of Governors, including Sarah Bloom Raskin, a former Fed and Treasury official, for the top regulatory slot and Lisa Cook, who would be the first black woman to serve on the Fed's board.
Biden will also...
(Headline USA) For companies that were waiting to hear from the U.S. Supreme Court before deciding whether to require vaccinations or regular coronavirus testing for workers, the next move is up to them.
Many large corporations were silent on Thursday's ruling by the high court to block a requirement that workers at...