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...“Gas prices are going down, but everything else is still going up,” said Hazel, who travels to her job in retail in Washington by car....
...Jay Powell, chair of the Federal Reserve, was the latest official to raise concerns about the US fiscal situation. “It’s not that the level of the debt is unsustainable,” he said in October....
...Agency officials said on average capital requirements for the so-called global systemically important banks (G-Sibs) were estimated to rise 19 per cent....
...As his touring exhibition Wonderful Things – which first showed at the V&A in 2019 – opens at the J Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles next month, a new selection of Walker’s works will also be available to...
...Fed chief Jay Powell suggested this week bigger rate rises might be necessary to cool the economy, telling Congress he would be watching today’s jobs figures closely, alongside inflation and retail sales...
...The main draw will be Federal Reserve chair Jay Powell’s twice-yearly monetary policy testimony to the Senate Banking Committee in Washington on Tuesday....
...There are many parallels between the current situation of Jay Powell’s Fed and what happened then. So it is imperative that we learn from history to avoid repeating the error....
...In the supply chain rankings of 2007, P&G, Toyota and Walmart all had a peer ranking score at least double that of Apple....
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...“The bumper sticker would say, we’re past the V,” says Michael Gapen, chief US economist at Barclays, referring to the shape of the recovery since the shocking collapse last year....
...And Fed chair Jay Powell told the Economic Club of Washington DC that the US central bank would not taper its $120bn of monthly asset purchases until it saw “substantial further progress” towards full employment...
...“This is the best outcome for markets,” says Randeep Somel, equity manager at M&G Investments. In taking this view, investors can draw comfort from history....
...The African Union will pay three times more for Russia’s Sputnik V jab than it is paying for the Oxford/AstraZeneca and Novavax vaccines, undermining Moscow’s claim that it is supplying poor countries with...
...(FT) The day ahead Yellen and Powell give testimony US Treasury secretary Janet Yellen and Federal Reserve chair Jay Powell begin two days of testimony in Washington today....
...(FT) Coronavirus digest Russia will supply 300m doses of its Sputnik V vaccine to the African Union....
...The White House said the two leaders spoke on Wednesday evening Washington time....
...“I am not convinced that we are going to have a V-shaped recovery,” he said. “I think it will be more like a U. The key thing is to shorten the lower part of the U . . ....
...“We have seen a V-shaped recovery in equity markets, but we are far from that in the real economy,” she said, as US stocks closed out their best quarter since 1998....
...Santucci, Washington Polymath 1,021: R Goodfellow, Surrey Crossword 16,158: John Johnston, New York; Annie Baker, London; Sebastian MacKay, Edinburgh Polymath 1,020: Abizer Nasir, London Crossword 16,152...
...In a call with reporters before Mr Powell’s statement, a Treasury official said that the most likely outcome was still “V-shaped” — a shortlived hit, contained within a quarter, followed by a sharp recovery...
...Addressing the Senate, Jay Sekulow, the president’s personal lawyer, dismissed the Bolton allegations, saying: “You cannot impeach a president on an unsourced allegation.”...
...Fed chairman Jay Powell’s comments prompted a rally for shorter-term government debt instruments, though....
...I also did my own Post column this week, for book promo, looking at how Elizabeth Warren v. Big Tech is really a battle between nationalism and neoliberalism....
...(FT) Walmart v Amazon Few retailers are coping better with the relentless rise of Amazon than the country’s largest retailer Walmart....
...In an inspired appointment, Mr Carter asked Volcker to take over from G William Miller as chairman of the Federal Reserve Board in Washington....
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