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The Latest Breaking News from Jerome Powell

A shiny new Fed chair will be keen to make an entrance with a base rate cut—yet the committee is only growing more hawkish due to Iran

“Clearly there’s growing skepticism that a new chair can start cutting straight away, particularly with the data as strong as it is right now,” noted Deutsche Bank’s Jim Reid.

Fortune

Commodity Roundup- February’s Top Performers and Underperformers

Precious metals and most energy prices moved higher in February. Three of the five soft commodities, natural gas, and cryptocurrencies posted double-digit percentage declines.

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Trump announces 401(k)s for all: ‘We will match your contribution with up to $1,000 each year’

Trump also pressured lawmakers to formally prohibit insider trading among legislators, shortly after mentioning Nancy Pelosi’s name.

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The Supreme Court’s ruling leaves Trumponomics facing major challenges

The decision by the US Supreme Court to rule most of Donald Trump’s “liberation day” tariffs illegal will have far-ranging consequences for the president’s economic agenda. Although the administration will find other ways to increase tariffs, their usefulness as a weapon of economic warfare will be diminished. And the issue…

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Fed's Waller says rate cut in March is a 'coin flip' following a strong US jobs report

Federal Reserve governor Christopher Waller said Monday that solid job gains in January could mean the central bank can skip a rate cut at its next meeting in March, a move that would likely spur further attacks by President Donald Trump

The Independent UK

The Supreme Court's landmark tariff decision is the latest defeat 'piercing President Trump's seeming invincibility'

"This is significant at a time that the president seeks to head into midterm elections with a head full of steam."

Fortune

Jerome Powell knows the Fed's balance sheet got too big—Kevin Warsh has a plan, he just has to sell it without freaking out markets or the Treasury

"I've got a lot of sympathy for Warsh's view. But the transition from here to where he wants to get, could be problematic."

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A headache is already brewing for Kevin Warsh at the Fed, as minutes show some members don’t just resist a cut, but are open to a hike

“While Warsh may enter with a perceived dovish bias, he will first need to demonstrate that his views are anchored in economic fundamentals rather than politics.”

Fortune

Nasdaq Leads a Rocky Risk-On Rally: Stock Market Today

Another worrying bout of late-session weakness couldn't take down the main equity indexes on Wednesday.

Kiplinger

Top Trump advisor furious about true cost of tariffs being revealed, vows to punish New York Fed for ‘worst paper’ ever in history

“The paper is an embarrassment,” Kevin Hassett fumed on CNBC, calling it “the worst paper I’ve seen in the history of the Federal Reserve System.”

Fortune

Fed minutes show widening divide over rate cuts

Officials are split over how weak the labor market is and whether businesses will continue to pass along tariff-related costs to consumers.

Axios

Interest Rates Were Cut — What Will Mortgage Rates Look Like in 2026?

Here's what financial experts think mortgage rates will look like in 2026 now that the Fed has cut rates three times in 2025. Not much changes for good or ill.

GOBankingRates

Jerome Powell is facing a ‘puzzlement’ of economic data, with contradictions likely to freeze any immediate action on the base rate

“Such confusion often leads to inertia, and we suspect that there will be no knee-jerk policy reaction to any of the week’s reports,” Oxford Economics’ Bob Schwartz wrote.

Fortune

US inflation falls to 2.4% in January after Trump’s tariffs led to price fluctuations

Economists predicted a slight easing of inflation, although it’s unclear whether Fed will again cut interest rates

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Some folks on Wall Street think yesterday’s U.S. jobs number is ‘implausible’ and is thus due for a correction

Some analysts are worrying that the latest number might be wrong, and that the level of job creation in America is lower than the stats suggest.

Fortune

Nightmarish labor market finally shows signs of letting up—and ‘vindication’ for Jerome Powell

“Low-hire, low-fire” is so 2025-coded as January suggests companies may actually be hiring in 2026. This jobs report made Maria Bartiromo say, “Wow.”

Kiplinger

Job Growth Sizzled to Start the Year. Here's Why It's Unlikely to Impact Interest Rates

The January jobs report came in much stronger than expected and the unemployment rate ticked lower to start 2026, easing worries about a slowing labor market.

Fortune

Powell's parting gift from the Fed may be more rate cuts than expected, courtesy of greying data

Recent "releases helped to validate the dovish arguments pushing for more rate cuts this year," Deutsche Bank's Henry Allen noted.

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Euronews

Asian markets rise after Takaichi election win, while US futures trend lower

Asian markets rose after Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi secured a two-thirds supermajority in a historic landslide victory in Japanese elections, boosting fiscal stimulus prospects.

Kiplinger

Why the Next Fed Chair Decision May Be the Most Consequential in Decades

Kevin Warsh, Trump's Federal Reserve chair nominee, faces a delicate balancing act, both political and economic.

Fortune

Trump may have shot himself in the foot at the Fed, as Powell could stay on while Miran resigns from White House post

The Democrat roadblock was expected but “raises the prospect of Chair Powell staying on as FOMC chair (not Board of Governors chair) beyond May,” noted UBS.

Euronews

The price of gold and silver has fallen sharply. Where did this plunge come from?

The price of gold fell from a record $5,600 to $4,770 per ounce. On Friday, the price of silver fell by 31%. This is the biggest percentage drop in the price of this bullion since March 1980. What could be the reasons for such declines?

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Why Trump’s new pick for Fed chair hit gold and silver markets – for good reasons

After months of speculation, US President Donald Trump confirmed he will be nominating Kevin Warsh as the next chair of the US Federal Reserve. The appointment has been closely watched in the context of Trump’s ongoing conflict with the Fed and its current chairman Jerome Powell.

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Fed chair nominee Kevin Warsh could crush Trump's rate-cut hopes and risk suffering the same level of abuse that Powell got, analysts say

"Should Warsh find himself in the minority, he would have to decide whether he would tolerate being outvoted."

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GOP senator promises to block all Trump Federal Reserve nominees after ‘outrageous’ DOJ probe into Jerome Powell

He wants it "fully and finally resolved."

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