Stock market, central bank and economic news: indices, rates, inflation, currencies and the data driving global markets.
U.S. inflation accelerated in August, giving the Federal Reserve a difficult new reading before next week’s policy meeting. The consumer price index rose 0.4% from July, when it had increased just 0.1%, and was 3.4% higher than a year earlier. The headline figures matched economists’
The U.S. Treasury’s decision to buy back as much as $6 billion of older long-dated government debt on Thursday is a meaningful expansion of its market-support machinery. The bond market’s immediate response, however, was a reminder that better trading liquidity is not the same thing
EverBank Financial and WaFd have agreed to a $3.9 billion reverse merger that will leave WaFd as the public legal survivor while handing economic control, the name and much of the leadership of the combined company to EverBank. Announced on September 7, the stock transaction is designed to create
A rare U.S.-Japan intervention to support the yen has become more than a currency-market story. It is now testing the informal trust that allows the world’s major central banks and finance ministries to respond quickly when financial stress crosses borders. European central bankers left the Federal
Canada has answered Washington’s latest tariffs with a deliberately matched response, imposing new duties on C$27.6 billion of U.S. goods and pairing them with C$7.5 billion of support for affected workers and businesses. The move is designed to defend domestic producers and create negotiating
Australia’s central bank has made clear that its August pause was a decision to wait for evidence, not a declaration that the tightening cycle is over. Minutes released Tuesday show the Reserve Bank of Australia considered a fourth rate increase this year before unanimously holding the cash rate at
President Donald Trump’s newly released financial disclosure offers a striking look at the scale of trading inside his investment accounts, but it is more useful as a lesson in the limits of federal transparency than as evidence of any particular market view. The periodic transaction report lists 1,051
The U.S. economy has delivered a stronger August signal than investors expected, but the message is not an uncomplicated one. S&P Global’s flash Composite Output Index rose to 56.0 from 54.5 in July, its highest reading since April 2022. The acceleration was powered by
The Securities and Exchange Commission’s plan to remove one of the central rules governing U.S. stock trading has reached a consequential stage. The public comment period closed Monday on the agency’s proposal to rescind Rule 611 of Regulation NMS, and the final-day filings reveal broad agreement
Beyond Oil is selling a patented technology that helps commercial kitchens keep frying oil cleaner and usable longer – already proven with paying customers abroad, and now beginning to gain traction in the vast U.S. foodservice market where successful execution could ‘materially change the company’s revenue scale’ according to
Teamshares has delivered strong growth in its first quarterly report as a Nasdaq-listed company, but the results also show why financing is the central variable in its acquisition model. The owner of more than 90 small and midsize businesses reported second-quarter revenue of $148.7 million, up 20%
The Reserve Bank of Australia has paused its 2026 tightening campaign, leaving the cash rate at 4.35% after three increases this year. The unanimous decision on Tuesday was not a declaration of victory over inflation. It was a judgment that policy is already restrictive enough to wait for clearer
