Budget Battles
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Inflation Eases in April, Lifting Hopes for a Soft Landing
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Biden Jacks Up Tariffs on $18 Billion in Chinese Imports
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Trump Promises New Tax Cuts for Everyone
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Biden White House Lays Out Plan for Coming Tax Showdown
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Trump Tax Cut Extension Would Cost $4.6 Trillion: CBO
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House Kills Greene Motion to Oust Speaker Johnson
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Greene Backs Off Johnson Threat, but Issues Four Demands
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Here’s What Financial Advisers Think You Should Do With Your Portfolio Right Now
As the stock market continues to hit record highs, most financial advisers expect it to show more volatility in the second half of the year.
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Does Weak Inflation Mean the Economy Is Worse Than It Looks?
It wasn't supposed to be like this. The economic expansion is in its ninth calendar year. The unemployment rate has plummeted to 4.3 percent, down from more than 8 percent five years ago. Home prices...
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Here’s Why Trump Deserves Credit for the Stock Market Surge
By Liz PeekAs of Tuesday, the Dow Jones Industrial Average had scored record highs for nine days in a row; the gains are driving anti-Trumpers crazy. Though the president’s boasts are not always accurate,...
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Passive Investing Is Hot, but It Comes With This Big Risk
Passive investing, at least in the major index funds, is basically momentum investing writ large.
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Wall Street Has Never Been This Calm. Will It Suffer a Rude Awakening?
Lulled into a bliss by perceived dovishness from the Fed, investors are risking a rude awakening in two months' time.
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Women Are Better Investors Than Men. Here Are 3 Reasons Why
Female investors outperform males on average, and new report attributes the better performance to three traits more common in female investors.
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Is the Fed About to Wage War on the Rich?
For years, stocks have been driven relentlessly higher thanks to a single statement that summarized the aggressive central bank largesse since the eurozone crisis flared up in 2012: Policymakers...
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Is the Fed Fighting the Trump Rally?
The evidence is growing that the Federal Reserve’s policymakers are actively working to lean against the stock market's rise, a dramatic reversal from the years of policy support stock market bulls...
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Six Risks That Should Make Stock Market Bulls Nervous
The Wall Street bulls have had things all their own way over the past seven months, with the "Trumpflation" rally in industrial and bank stocks giving way to the tech rally among the "FAANGs" —...
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Is Capitalism Ailing? Why Bill Gross Says It’s Time to Cut Your Risks
By Jennifer Ablan, ReutersBond investor Bill Gross warned on Tuesday that investors should reduce their risk appetite, given the U.S. growth rate is stunted by secular forces "which monetary and even future fiscal policies...
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Stocks Are Rallying Again. Why That May Not Last
The bulls are running again. Last Wednesday, spooked by a stream of negative headlines regarding the Trump White House and rising impeachment odds, the Dow Jones Industrial Average lost 1.8 percent...
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Bitcoin Is Soaring: Here's the Incredible Gain Since 2010
By Arjun Kharpal, CNBCMonday marks the seven-year anniversary of Bitcoin Pizza Day – the moment a programmer named Laszlo Hanyecz spent 10,000 bitcoin on two Papa John's pizzas. More important than the episode being...
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How Far Could Stocks Fall Amid Trump Turmoil?
Things are moving fast in Washington, D.C.: Just over the last 24 hours, the Justice Department appointed a special counsel to look into the situation while Reuters is reporting Trump's campaign had...
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How Political Fireworks in Washington Could Singe the Market Rally
By Rebecca Ungarino, CNBCWith no shortage of tumultuous news out of Washington and investors looking for more information from the Trump administration about fiscal policies, politics loom large over the financial markets...
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Why Wall Street Doesn't Care About Chaos in the Trump Administration
By Jeff Cox, CNBCPresident Donald Trump tweets something flattering about a foreign dictator, the market shrugs. He bombs Syria, the market shrugs. Major legislation gets blown up in Congress, the market shrugs. No...