The Federal Reserve on Friday declined to extend a pandemic-era rule that relaxed the amount of capital banks had to maintain against Treasurys and other holdings, in a move that could upset Wall Street and the bond market. In a brief announcement, the Fed said it would allow a change to the supplementary leverage ratio
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U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken (2nd R), joined by national security advisor Jake Sullivan (R), speaks while facing Yang Jiechi (2nd L), director of the Central Foreign Affairs Commission Office, and Wang Yi (L), China’s foreign minister at the opening session of U.S.-China talks at the Captain Cook Hotel in Anchorage, Alaska on March
A pedestrian walks past American multinational sport clothing brand, Nike store and its logo seen in Hong Kong. Budrul Chukrut | SOPA Images | LightRocket | Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines after the bell on Thursday: FedEx – Shares of the delivery service ticked up 3.6% after the company announced fiscal third-quarter
Take a look at some of the biggest movers in the premarket: Dollar General (DG) – Dollar General shares tumbled 6.1% in premarket action after the discount retailer missed estimates by 10 cents a share, with quarterly earnings of $2.62 per share. The company exceeded revenue estimates as comparable-store sales increased more than expected. Signet
Big Tech’s troubles may be in their early innings. Rich Bernstein, an Institutional Investor Hall of Famer, warns that the tech-heavy Nasdaq faces “way more” than a 10% drop in a downturn that will likely last years. He blames a backdrop dominated by rising interest rates as a major catalyst. “Everybody seems to know when
Robinhood hires Aparna Chennapragada as first chief product officer Robinhood has hired a top Google executive as its first chief product officer ahead of its upcoming public debut. The trading start-up said Wednesday it will bring on Aparna Chennapragada, who spent 12 years at Google leading product, engineering and design teams. She was most recently
Take a look at some of the biggest movers in the premarket: Lands’ End (LE) – The apparel retailer reported quarterly earnings of 60 cents per share, topping the 56 cents a share consensus estimate. Revenue also topped analysts’ forecasts. Lands’ End forecast a smaller-than-expected loss for the current quarter and full-year earnings that exceed
Don’t rule out a 10-year Treasury Note yield as high as 2.25% this year. That’s the message from Wells Fargo Securities’ Michael Schumacher, ahead of Wednesday’s Federal Reserve interest rate decision. “The fiscal stimulus is enormous, and the vaccine rollout seems to be accelerating quite a bit — not just here in the U.S.,” the
Federal Reserve Jerome Powell testifies during a Senate Banking Committee hearing on “The Quarterly CARES Act Report to Congress” on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., December 1, 2020. Susan Walsh | Reuters A resurgent economy, percolating inflation and a stock market ripping higher don’t seem to make much of a recipe for easy monetary policy.
Take a look at some of the biggest movers in the premarket: AstraZeneca (AZN) – AstraZeneca’s Covid-19 vaccine will be recommended for people aged 65 and older in Canada, according to a CBC report. That news comes after several European countries suspended use of the vaccine, amid reports of side effects. Both the World Health