Fed rate decision October 2026 is the main event for Wall Street on Wednesday, with investors widely expecting the Federal Reserve to hold its benchmark interest rate steady at the end of its two-day policy meeting. The decision is due at 2 p.m. Eastern Time, followed by a press conference from Fed Chair Kevin Warsh … Read more
The Fed rate decision earnings collision this week will give Wall Street two major tests at once: a Federal Reserve interest-rate announcement on Wednesday, and quarterly results from Microsoft, Alphabet and Amazon within 48 hours of it. Stock futures pointed higher on Monday morning after a volatile week, with Dow Jones Industrial Average futures up … Read more
U.S. stocks are heading for another rough session Thursday as a stock market selloff sparked by hotter-than-expected September inflation rolls into its fourth day. Nasdaq futures pointed to a drop of about 1.2% in premarket trading, while S&P 500 futures slipped roughly 0.3% and Dow futures edged up about 0.2%, according to morning market readings … Read more
The September CPI report delivered an unwelcome surprise on Wednesday morning, as U.S. consumer prices accelerated to 3.7% year-over-year in September, up from 3.4% in August and above the 3.6% economists surveyed by the Wall Street Journal had expected. Core inflation, which excludes volatile food and energy costs, also topped forecasts, intensifying pressure on the … Read more
The stock market today opened the first full week of October on a cautious note, with futures little changed after a Friday rally lifted the Nasdaq to a record. Investors are balancing a softer September jobs report against still-elevated Treasury yields, high energy prices, and a busy week of earnings and central-bank speeches, according to … Read more
The US jobs report for September showed the labor market hitting a soft patch, with employers adding just 29,000 jobs and the unemployment rate rising to 4.2 percent, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics data released Friday and reported by CNN, USA Today and other outlets. The September figure fell well short of the roughly … Read more
The Justice Department will not reopen the Powell probe Fed renovation criminal investigation, Attorney General Todd Blanche said Friday, closing a chapter that had kept former Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell under a legal cloud months after he stepped down as chair. Blanche told Bloomberg News that prosecutors are not reviving the case, after the … Read more
The latest US jobs report September data showed the labor market cooling sharply, with employers adding just 29,000 jobs and the unemployment rate rising to 4.2 percent, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Friday. The figure came in well below the roughly 90,000 jobs economists surveyed by Reuters had expected. It was also the final … Read more
The September jobs report came in hotter than expected. U.S. private employers added 90,000 jobs in September, according to ADP, easily beating the 70,000 forecast and more than doubling August’s revised gain of 36,000. The upside surprise signals the labor market still has some fight left — and it arrives on a morning packed with … Read more