Donald Trump spent decades professing faith in the power of tariffs, but still caught investors off guard when he unveiled his “liberation day” levies in the Rose Garden of the White House in April 2025.
The shock of suddenly seeing manufacturing powerhouses, such as China, Vietnam and Cambodia, threatened with tariffs of 46 per cent or more rattled markets,
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IonQ’s trapped-ion technology has shown some nice advantages, but potential commercialization is many years away.
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The top economist at J.P. Morgan believes the Federal Reserve is done cutting interest rates and will hold policy steady through 2026, with the next move likely a hike in 2027.
“We now expect the Fed to hold rates throughout 2026 with the next move to hike later in 2027,” wrote Michael Feroli,
On Wednesday, the Supreme Court gears up to hear arguments in a crucial case over the independence of the Federal Reserve, Trump v. Cook. But it won’t even be the first make-or-break moment the country’s main economic institution has had in the past few weeks.
President Donald Trump’s effort to seize control of the Federal Reserve and its power to set interest rates escalated last Sunday when Fed Chair Jerome Powell announced that he had been served “grand jury subpoenas” and threatened with “criminal indictment” related to cost overruns for the central bank’s building restoration project.
Futures on Wall Street are trading with losses on Sunday local time, after US President Donald Trump threatened NATO allies with tariffs from February 1, if they do not comply with his move to acquire Greenland.
Futures on the Dow Jones are down over 320 points, those on the S&P 500 are down 52 points,
Indian equities are expected to open on a cautious to negative note on January 19, with GIFT Nifty indicating a start around 25,600, nearly 151 points lower. While near-term sentiment remains guarded, underlying domestic technical indicators continue to provide some support. That said, the broader market direction is likely to remain influenced by global equity cues,
By Lewis Krauskopf
NEW YORK, Jan 15 (Reuters) – After years of watching technology stocks drive the U.S. bull market, investors are betting the rally will broaden to industrial, healthcare and small-cap companies, with a chance they can catch up and assert market leadership.
Stocks such as Nvidia,
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Commitments range from more than 750 bases in over 80 countries, NATO obligations in Europe, relationships in Asia such as Japan, South Korea, and the Philippines, to deterrence in China, Russia, and Iran. Recruitment difficulties, aging inventory, and possible multiple front situations such as Taiwan, Ukraine crises, and the Middle East war zones keep stretching their capacity.
Urban air mobility has long lived somewhere between science fiction and city planning decks. Today, electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft (eVTOLs) are slowly dragging that vision into reality. The promise is compelling – quieter skies, shorter commutes, and a new layer of transportation above gridlocked roads. For now, the market remains narrow,
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Nvidia accounts for a significant percentage of the value of many popular indexes.
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been the major investing theme of the market over the past three years, and it looks as if 2026 will be no different. Hyperscalers are still spending tens of billions on data center construction,
