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Breaking: Fed Cuts Benchmark Rate Target Range to 3.5%-3.75% in 9-3 Vote 🚨 Tune in for live analysis: https://t.co/UP7Z2yblcu
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The muted rate-cut dissent doesn't herald a Fed that could overturn an attempt to push it around, writes @johnauthers
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Muted dissent like this does not signal a Fed that won’t let itself be pushed around.
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The painfully cautious Keir Starmer is still saying publicly that the UK joining the EU's customs union wouldn’t be "sensible.” He needs to change the record, writes @RosaFPrince
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When the UK heeded Boris Johnson’s Brexit call and narrowly voted to leave the European Union in 2016, a generation was appalled. According to the writer Michael Cockerell, Johnson’s own 18-year-old...
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The euro zone economy is too weak to support Isabel Schabel's backing for the next ECB move to be a rate increase, writes @marcusashworth
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Why would the European Central Bank’s German representative promote a hike in interest rates when the euro bloc's biggest economy has been in recession for the last two years? Isabel Schnabel is...
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The anti-immigrant AfD is becoming more professional, but its sleek new look doesn't mean any softening of its politics, writes @hoyer_kat
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In Germany, a political reality is taking shape that was long unthinkable. For the first time since World War II, a far-right party is close enough to power that it’s planning to govern rather than...
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Paramount Skydance’s tender offer for Warner Bros. is not exactly a classic hostile tender offer.
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Also M&A AI data, trillion-dollar IPOs and good TV is bad for stocks.
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Between President Trump’s “no more Mr. Nice guy” and the sorry state of America’s charitable scene, generosity is hard to come by these days
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Between President Trump’s “no more Mr. Nice guy” and the sorry state of America’s charitable scene, generosity is hard to come by these days.
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IndiGo became the success story of India's aviation, writes @mihirssharma. What unfolded in the last week was a shock
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When IndiGo entered India's already crowded skies two decades ago, it was a revelation. It was supposedly a low-cost airline, but it was more comfortable and welcoming than most of our full-service...
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Thailand and Cambodia are fighting again, writes @Karishmajourno. It's a much bigger question than Donald Trump
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Renewed hostilities between Thailand and Cambodia are a wake-up call for Southeast Asia about the costs of letting historical border disputes fester. The century-old conflict, rooted in colonial-era...
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It’s time to have a little more faith in the abilities of technology, and get rid of shark nets once and for all, @davidfickling writes
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Under slate skies last Sunday, I joined about 2,000 people gazing out on a turbulent sea and preparing to participate in an annual summer ritual of my city: Pitting ourselves against the wind and...
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Cartier’s market share with Gen Z has been growing. The brand can thank Taylor Swift and Sofia Coppola, @AndreaFelsted says 🎥
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@Claudia_Sahm @AllisonSchrager What would the dynamic between Kevin Hassett and the rest of the Fed chairs be? Tune in for Fed Day with @JonathanJLevin, @Claudia_Sahm and @AllisonSchrager 🎥 https://t.co/UP7Z2yblcu
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@Claudia_Sahm @AllisonSchrager “The thing I’m waiting for the most — it’s not who the Fed chair is gonna be. I’m really waiting to hear what the Supreme Court decides to do with Lisa Cook,” @Claudia_Sahm says. Tune in for Fed Day:
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@Claudia_Sahm @AllisonSchrager AI’s effect on inflation “could even be a 2036 phenomenon,” @AllisonSchrager says. “It takes a long time for things to really show up meaningfully in statistics. The steam engine took 150 years...” https://t.co/UP7Z2yblcu
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@Claudia_Sahm @AllisonSchrager “There’s a disinflationary aspect to AI. You could make that case, but for the Fed to actually act on it, they’ll need to see some evidence,” @Claudia_Sahm says. “I don’t know that’s a 2026 phenomenon.” https://t.co/UP7Z2ybT22
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@Claudia_Sahm @AllisonSchrager Fed Day: Why haven’t retailers broadly added in tariff prices yet? https://t.co/UP7Z2ybT22
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@Claudia_Sahm @AllisonSchrager “Part of the reason that we didn’t make any progress this year [on inflation] is because the tariffs were rolled out,” @Claudia_Sahm says. Tune in here 🎥
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@Claudia_Sahm @AllisonSchrager “This Fed has agreed that their target is 2% inflation — so if you sit down as a Fed official and you don’t end up with 2% inflation, why didn’t you … [make] adjustments to your appropriate policy?” @Claudia_Sahm says. Tune in:
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@Claudia_Sahm “Jay Powell is no Alan Greenspan. He does not like surprises.… He does not like to keep the market on its toes,” @AllisonSchrager says. Tune in for Fed Day analysis:
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@Claudia_Sahm Fed Day: Is one cut in 2026 reasonable now? Tune in for live analysis 🎥
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Fed Day: “To have three dissents on the vote going in different directions is very consistent with the kind of “Fed speak” coming into this meeting which showed a lot of different opinions about the right thing to do,” @Claudia_Sahm says. https://t.co/UP7Z2ybT22
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