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Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. DUBLIN—When Mikey Cullen’s parents were in their early 20s, they earned enough as public-sector workers to buy a house in the city. Today, Cullen is a 27-year-old high-school teacher who lives with his mother.

U.S. stock indexes drifted through mixed trading ahead of a meeting by the Federal Reserve later this week that could set Wall Street’s direction into next year

President Joe Biden has signed a proclamation establishing a national monument honoring the late FDR-era Labor Secretary Frances Perkins

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Investors see an interest-rate cut by the Federal Reserve this week as all but certain. Inside the central bank, the case for continued reductions will be less clear-cut if the economy continues to chug along.

Markets are pricing in a more than 90% probability of a 0.25-percentage-point cut in the Fed funds rate this week. Officials are likely to pencil in higher «dot plots» for rates, notwithstanding the dispersion in forecasts among them, together with a move up in the terminal rate closer to what the market expects. Finally, while Chair Jerome Powell will not close off his options for January completely, he is expected to signal at his press conference that the central bank will stand pat when the Federal Open Market Committee meets next month.

Federal Reserve. A key stock benchmark for the region climbed, as did shares in Australia and Japan. South Korean equities fell, while futures for Hong Kong stocks pointed to a decline. The moves came after a positive session on Wall Street, where the Nasdaq 100 gained more than 1% to reach another record high.

Having tagged America’s inordinately large share of global financial markets as “the mother of all bubbles” in my last column, the main pushback I got, even from the few people who share my view, was that there is no sign this bubble will deflate any time soon.

The federal government broke its key fiscal guardrail and posted a deficit of $61.9 billion for the 2023-2024 fiscal year, according to the fall economic statement released on Monday, blowing past the $40.1 billion level at which it promised to keep the deficit.

In the lead-up to the stunning resignation of Chrystia Freeland as Canada’s minister of finance, the story provided by the mysterious sources not authorized to leak secrets to the media was that Freeland and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau had a disagreement over whether to distribute $250 cheques to every Canadian earning less than $150,000. It looks like the unauthorized source was speaking truth. In her letter of resignation, which reads like an attack on Trudeau, Freeland says the government needs to keep its “fiscal powder dry” and should be “eschewing costly political gimmicks.”

China while suggesting that they might be really inflated, reported Business Insider. According to Business Insider, while speaking at an event which was hosted by the Peterson Institute for International Economics, Gao Shanwen eventually stated that the actual GDP growth of China could be averaging somewhere around 2% over the past two to three years, in spite of the official figures reporting close to nearly 5%. He also made a speculation that the future growth rates might realistically range between 3% and 4%, while the government will likely continue to report around 5%. Also Read :It's official! Don Jr. and Kimberly Guilfoyle had a friendly split; source says, she is intelligent, sm

— Howard Marks, co-founder Oaktree Capital Management Inc.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. PALM BEACH, Fla.—Donald Trump and SoftBank Group CEO Masayoshi Son are set to jointly announce on Monday that the company is planning to invest $100 billion in U.S. projects over the next four years, according to a person involved in the event, as the president-elect seeks to project enthusiasm over his return to power.

Therefore, any comprehensive regulatory framework on the subject can be effective only with significant international collaborations on evaluation of the risks and benefits and evaluation of common taxonomy and standards, Minister of State for Finance Pakaj Chaudhary said in a written reply in the Lok Sabha. Further, he said, the need to balance investor protection and innovation must be assessed in light of the broader objective of protecting the Indian economy from the risks posed by the VDA sector while maintaining the financial and monetary stability of the economy.

Americans hoping for lower borrowing costs for homes, credit cards and cars may be disappointed after this week’s Federal Reserve meeting

China has reported its economy logged a mixed performance in November, with retail sales slowing as consumers refrained from spending on non-essentials like cosmetics, alcohol and jewelry

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Faced with rising social frustrations and public unrest, China’s leaders are ramping up security measures and squelching discordant views on the country’s economic health.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Right, as the world goes, is only in question between equals in power, while the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must"—Thucydides. Nothing describes the evolution of the Westphalian system of ‘nation states’ that humanity has adopted better than Thucydides’ pithy observation in his Melian Dialogue.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell had to reassure some skeptical colleagues that the central bank wouldn’t inadvertently send signals of distress when he led them to start lowering borrowing costs at the end of the summer with a gutsy, larger-than-usual half-point reduction. Now, they are confronting another potential hinge point.

“Both gold and silver have gained ~30% over the last one-year period. Global uncertainties including the US election led to a rally in gold as it is considered as a safe haven,” says Deepak Ramaraju, Senior Fund Manager, Shriram AMC. In an interview with ETMarkets, Ramaraju said: “Silver, on the other hand, may witness momentum on the back of its usage in various industrial applications including electronics, solar panels for renewable energy, advanced healthcare and electric vehicles,” Edited excerpts: Geopolitical concerns and political uncertainty in some of the countries weighed on markets in early December. What is your take on the markets? Markets have witnessed several challenges in the recent past — Russia Ukraine war, the escalation of Israel Palestine conflict, the invasion of Syria etc. However, these geo-political conflicts affect the commodity supply chain, currency movement and inflation.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Today Bangladesh is celebrating the 53rd anniversary of its liberation—a day I still remember vividly. I was then a student at the government inter-college, Prayagraj (then Allahabad).

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Think about it: The number of taxpayers filing returns of over ₹1 crore has increased fivefold in a decade, from 44,078 in 2012-13 to 230,000 in 2022-23. Also, according to Avendus, company promoters have sold a combined total of nearly ₹3 trillion since 2019-20.