Fed Chair Jerome Powell Reiterates That Fed Will Continue Security Purchases

Drew Angerer/Getty Images News The Federal Reserve position on inflation: "Powell Expects Inflation ... fact that during the last period of economic recovery and into the last economic recovery ... Read More

Embedded as a risk, new COVID cycle could challenge Fed, recovery

The daily pace of new infections has more than doubled since the Fed's June 16 policy meeting, when Chair Jerome Powell said that ... have been localized, news of rising case loads once again ... Read More

The Delta variant is another massive headache for the Fed

The Federal Reserve ... Powell at 2:30 p.m. ET. The central bank is not expected to make any policy changes. Instead, investors will be listening for clues about the strength of the economic ... Read More

Coronavirus: Biden reveals mandates and calls for incentives to boost vaccinations - as it happened

Social media companies including Pinterest, which is popular with hobbyists posting home decor, food and wedding collages, enjoyed a pandemic-related boost to engagement last year as users turned ... Read More

Weekly Commentary: Under Fire

The world was in the throes ... and Lindsay Dunsmuir): "Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell… pledged 'powerful support' to complete the U.S. economic recovery from the coronavirus pandemic ... Read More

Authoritarianism advances as world battles the pandemic

Here’s some of what happened while the world ... and Congress. He dismissed the virus as a “little flu,” cast doubt on the effectiveness of vaccines and opposed social and economic restrictions. Read More

Dow Jones plummets amid fears over spread of Delta variant as Biden touts economic gains

Stocks plummeted on Monday as investors sold off stocks over fears that escalating numbers of infections of the Covid-19 Delta variant would hinder the economic ... Congress and the White House to ... Read More

US economic growth lost momentum in June, Chicago Fed says

In June, 40 of the 85 individual indicators deteriorated from May, while 45 made positive contributions to the index last month, the Chicago Fed said in a news release. REPUBLICANS EXCORIATE ... Read More

Australia sends army to Sydney's poorest neighbourhoods to enforce strict Covid lockdown

From Monday, some 300 Australian army personnel will help police door-knock people who have tested positive to the virus to ensure ... Covid cabinet of state and federal leaders meanwhile began ... Read More

‘Have you no shame?’ Biden frames voting rights as a moral reckoning.

In an impassioned speech in Philadelphia, Mr. Biden tried to reinvigorate the stalled Democratic effort to pass federal ... $3.5 trillion economic recovery bill being debated in Congress. Read More

Money News You’ll Really Use: June 30, 2021

In addition to recapping the news, we check in on our personal ... And so then, then the recovery would take longer, you know? Cause, and that’s another story I’m going to cover. Read More