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The two Federal Reserve policymakers who dissented against the U.S. central bank decision's to leave interest rates unchanged last month appear not to have been joined by other policymakers in voicing support for lowering rates at that meeting,
Stocks are lower Wednesday afternoon as selling of AI-related technology names continues and Target names a new chief executive.
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Hassett likely to be Trump's pick for Fed chief, though Warsh is more qualified, CNBC survey finds
President Donald Trump will tap his top economic advisor Kevin Hassett to be the next Fed chair, according to respondents to a special Jackson Hole Edition of the CNBC Fed Survey. But when asked who the president should pick, Hassett ranked a more distant fourth.
Wall Street's main indexes fell on Wednesday, with a selloff in tech stocks driving the Nasdaq to a two-week low as caution prevailed ahead of the Federal Reserve's highly anticipated Jackson Hole symposium this week.
Top Federal Reserve officials generally expect inflation to increase in the near term, according to minutes of the July meeting released on Wednesday. The only questions were how big the gain would be,
Fed rate cuts are unlikely to lower borrowing costs for American homebuyers, according to one CIO. Mortgage rates and home prices remain elevated.
Federal Reserve officials worried at their July meeting about the state of the labor market and inflation, though most agreed that it was too soon to lower interest rates, minutes released Wednesday showed.
The Federal Reserve is conducting technical research in such areas as tokenization, smart contracts, and artificial intelligence in payments, Fed Governor Christopher Waller said on Wednesday.