Gold (GC=F) and silver (SI=F) appeared to steady on Monday following a dramatic crash and a reversal of a parabolic rally that stunned Wall Street. “The dam broke,” Tom Essaye, founder of Sevens Report Research, told Yahoo Finance on Monday....
Much-expected January payrolls, originally scheduled for Friday, are delayed because of the partial government shutdown. Strong growth and above-target inflation mean Capital Economics expects only one Fed rate cut of 25 basis points this year. The Wall Street Journal
...The Federal Reserve is widely expected to hold interest rates steady at its policy meeting this week, following three successive cuts at the end of 2025. So all eyes will be on how long officials signal they plan to hold...
President Donald Trump indicated he’s comfortable with the dollar’s recent decline, helping send the currency to its lowest level since early 2022. “No, I think it’s great,” Trump told reporters in Iowa on Tuesday when asked if he was worried...
The U.S. Federal Reserve will hold its key interest rate through this quarter and possibly until Chair Jerome Powell’s tenure ends in May, according to a majority of economists polled by Reuters, a shift from last month when most expected...
You just don’t see a lot of drama in the Federal Reserve. In normal times, that is. But 2025 wasn’t normal. That is: normal in the way that, say, 2023 and 2024 were normal. In 2025, Donald Trump started a...
The Conference Board’s consumer confidence reading hit 89.1 in December, declining for the fifth consecutive month. Consumers are ending the year on a dour note. The Conference Board’s reading for consumer confidence ticked 3.8 points lower in December to reach...
It was a tough year to be looking for work — and the job market is not expected to get much better. Americans looking for work in 2025 have faced a challenging environment. And 2026 may not be much better....
US stocks fell on Monday as Wall Street awaited the Federal Reserve’s final policy meeting of the year, while the deal drama between Netflix (NFLX) and Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) escalated to a new level. The Dow Jones Industrial Average...
Data for Thanksgiving weekend shows consumers shopped at encouraging levels, but underlying details about spending patterns suggest this may not have been the economic boon the administration believes. According to Adobe Analytics, U.S. consumers spent $6.4 billion on Thanksgiving Day...
The September Producer Price Index (PPI) reading showed wholesale prices rose 0.3% for the month, in line with expectations. Stripping out the more volatile food and energy prices, the index rose less than expected. The report’s release was delayed by...
National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) CEO Jim Tobin joins Market Catalysts to take a closer look at the dynamics impacting the housing market and homebuilder confidence. Julie Hyman | Yahoo Finance
...US stocks retreated on Tuesday as worries about an AI bubble and the broader US economy continued to set markets on edge, with a pivotal Nvidia (NVDA) earnings report and shutdown-delayed jobs data on the horizon. The Dow Jones Industrial...
President Trump signed legislation Wednesday evening to end the federal shutdown after a record-long 43-day stoppage. Government employees began resuming work Thursday, though a full recovery from the stoppage is expected to take some time. “The federal government will now...
Federal Reserve liquidity facilities caught fire on Friday as month-end pressures pushed a key lending tool to a record level of usage. The Fed’s Standing Repo Facility lent a total of $50.35 billion on Friday to eligible financial firms in...
