Hints and tips:
Related Special Reports
...Defence department inspector general Robert Storch would “examine the roles, processes procedures, responsibilities and actions” related to Austin’s hospitalisation at the beginning of the month after a...
...Austin remained in hospital on Monday but was no longer in the ICU. Ryder did not disclose the nature of Austin’s medical procedure....
...India visit: US secretary of state Antony Blinken and defence secretary Lloyd Austin are in India for the annual 2+2 ministerial dialogue meeting between Washington and New Delhi....
...Federal Reserve: The US central bank will release the minutes of the latest meeting of the policy-setting Federal Open Market Committee, which kept interest rates at their 23-year high and cooled speculation...
...The annualised rate climbed 0.9 per cent, faster than economists’ forecasts of a 0.6 per cent increase....
...Minutes from the most recent meeting of the Federal Reserve’s monetary policy committee showed that officials are wary of cutting interest rates too quickly due to the risk of inflation picking up....
...Economists widely expect the central bank to hold interest rates steady at a target range of 5.25 to 5.5 per cent, with strong US economic growth easing the urgency to cut rates....
...Banks: The largest US banks are expected to log sharp rises in bad loans, shrinking the earnings of JPMorgan, Bank of America, Citigroup and Wells Fargo, all of which report their latest quarterly results...
...Zelenskyy will also meet lawmakers on Capitol Hill, and is expected to meet defence secretary Lloyd Austin at the Pentagon....
...Fed: The US Federal Reserve will release its latest “Beige Book”, an anecdotal assessment of economic conditions gathered by each central bank branch....
...Ukraine: US defence secretary Lloyd Austin is in Germany for a meeting of the 50-member Ukraine Defense Contact Group of nations, which supports Ukraine with military equipment and ammunition....
...Fedspeak: US Federal Reserve vice chair for supervision Michael Barr will speak about bank regulation....
...The company needed a “drastic cultural overhaul”, Ron Epstein, analyst at Bank of America, told clients, calling the latest changes “the first right steps of removing the ‘old guard’, and making way for...
...Given a choice between independence or a few more dollars in their bank accounts, I suspect most business titans would prefer to live on their own terms....
...Banks: The chief executives of the biggest US banks, including JPMorgan, Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, Citigroup, Bank of America and Wells Fargo, will testify before Congress in a Senate hearing on the...
...The central bank is expected to announce on Wednesday it is holding interest rates for their third straight time, keeping the federal funds rate at a 22-year high of 5.25-5.5 per cent....
...Investors will closely watch Jay Powell’s press conference shortly thereafter, with the Fed chair under intense pressure to set out the central bank’s timeline for probable rate cuts next year....
...Blinken: US secretary of state Antony Blinken is in Israel as part of a Middle East tour that will also take him to the West Bank and the United Arab Emirates....
...More than two-thirds of those surveyed in the FT-Chicago Booth poll think the Fed will make two or fewer cuts this year as it struggles to complete the “last mile” of its battle with inflation....
...Gross domestic product increased at an annualised rate of 4.9 per cent from July to September, the commerce department said in its final report on Thursday, down from its second estimate of 5.2 per cent....
...A top Bank of Canada official has said that the central bank’s monetary policy setting body has not yet discussed when to start cutting interest rates....
...Fedspeak: Lorie Logan, the president of Dallas’s Federal Reserve branch, will be in Frankfurt to deliver a keynote address at a European Central Bank conference on money markets....
...Blinken: US secretary of state Antony Blinken is in Turkey as he continues his diplomatic tour of the Middle East....
International Edition