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A Federal Reserve official said Monday that the market may have misunderstood the central bank’s intended message last week after stocks and bonds rallied sharply. The Fed voted last week to hold rates steady once again, and its updated projections showed an expectation of three rate cuts in 2024. That caused a rally in stocks

In this article KWS-GB Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Herman Narula, co-founder and CEO of Improbable, speaks during a session at the Web Summit in Lisbon. Henrique Casinhas | Sopa Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images Metaverse company Improbable has sold one of its key gaming ventures to London-listed video game developer Keywords Studios

Market optimism over the potential for interest rate cuts next year is dangerously overdone, according to former FDIC Chair Sheila Bair. Bair, who ran the FDIC during the 2008 financial crisis, suggested Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell was irresponsibly dovish at last week’s policy meeting by creating “irrational exuberance” among investors. “The focus still needs

BNY Mellon’s global head of ETFs suggested exchange-traded funds using options overlays could become next year’s hot product. “We are absolutely going to see more of these options-based products come to market,” Ben Slavin told CNBC’s “ETF Edge” on Monday. “We see it in our own book.” Options overlays are a way for investors to

Federal Reserve Board Chairman Jerome Powell answers a question during a press conference following a closed two-day meeting of the Federal Open Market Committee on interest rate policy at the Federal Reserve in Washington, November 1, 2023. Kevin Lamarque | Reuters The Federal Reserve dialed back its inflation projections on Wednesday, seeing its favorite gauge

John Williams, president and chief executive officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, during the Market Forum: FX in Focus event in New York, on Thursday, Sept. 7, 2023. Victor J. Blue | Bloomberg | Getty Images New York Federal Reserve President John Williams said Friday rate cuts are not a topic of

In this article C Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Jane Fraser, CEO of Citigroup, testifies during a Senate Banking Committee hearing at the Hart Senate Office Building on December 06, 2023 in Washington, DC.  Win Mcnamee | Getty Images Citigroup told most of its employees that they can work remotely the final two weeks

Buses pass in the City of London financial district outside the Royal Exchange near the Bank of England on 2nd July 2021 in London, United Kingdom. Mike Kemp | In Pictures | Getty Images LONDON — The Bank of England on Thursday kept its main interest rate unchanged at 5.25% and said monetary policy is

[The stream is slated to start at 8:45 a.m. ET. Please refresh the page if you do not see a player above at that time.] European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde is due to give a press conference following the bank’s latest monetary policy decision. The ECB on Thursday held interest rates steady for the second

KTSDesign | Science Photo Library | Getty Images It’s arguably the biggest stock story of 2023: a small number of giant technology companies now make up a very large part of big indexes like the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq-100.  Five companies (Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, Nvidia, and Alphabet) make up about 25% of the S&P 500. Six