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155k Jobs Added to November’s Payroll…

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U.S. Secretary of Labor Alexander Acosta today issued the following statement regarding the November 2018 Employment Situation report: “President Trump’s policies continue to fuel strong and steady job growth. Two full years since the President’s election, 4.6 million jobs have been created, including 155,000 in November. Job gains were significant in manufacturing and transportation and […]

Trump Blasts Fed, Says Interest Rates Are Too High…

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President Donald Trump Federal Reserve on Tuesday described the Federal Reserve as a “problem” and said its interest rate target was too high. “I’d like to see the Fed with a lower interest rate. I think the rate’s too high. I think we have much more of a Fed problem than we have a problem […]

Dow Finishes Down 550 Points as Stocks Erase 2018 Gains…

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U.S. stocks closed sharply lower Tuesday, extending a pre-Thanksgiving rout that has been fueled mostly by a selling in shares of technology and internet-related companies, but has now spread to ensnare the broader market. Sharp declines in Target and Lowe’s after disappointing earnings also contributed to the tone. U.S. financial markets will be closed Thursday […]

Import Prices: Still No Signs of Tariffs Taxing Consumers…

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The price of goods imported from China fell in the first month of the Trump administration’s expanded tariffs, government data showed Thursday. The Trump administration imposed tariffs on around $200 billion of goods imported from China at the end of September. Previously, the China tariffs had applied to $50 billion of goods, mostly technological imports. […]

APEC Fails to Reach Consensus As U.S.-China Divide Deepens…

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Asia-Pacific leaders failed to agree on a communique at a summit in Papua New Guinea on Sunday for the first time in their history as deep divisions between the United States and China over trade and investment stymied cooperation. Competition between the United States and China over the Pacific was also thrown into focus with […]

5 U.S. Tech Giants Just Spent $116 Billion of Repatriated Cash on Buybacks…

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While many analysts wanted to attribute the divergence in US stocks during the first three months of this year to strong economic data, the fiscal stimulus unleashed by Trump or stronger-than-expected corporate earnings, as analysts at Nomura (including cross-asset strategist Charlie McElligot) and Deutsche Bank have argued, when it comes to factors undergirding the market […]

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