Budget Battles
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Biden Struggles to Save His Candidacy as Pressure Grows
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Democrats Start to Publicly Back Away From Biden
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Supreme Court Hands Trump a Historic Win
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Biden Looks to Rebound From a Disastrous Debate
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IMF Sends an Urgent Warning on US Debt
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Biden Admin Lowers Prices on Dozens of Drugs
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House Republicans Release Plan to Cut FBI Funding
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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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Why the Dow Is Struggling to Break Through 20,000
Can the Dow finally push past 20,000? Market bulls are trying again after failing to lift the index over the threshold over the last two weeks — unable to muster the last ounce of strength needed to...
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The Two Things Investors Must Worry About Heading into 2017
The post-election Trump rally has looked unstoppable, even in the face of a Federal Reserve interest rate hike, but that could soon change as the consequences of volatile moves in other assets...
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How the Fed’s Hawkishness Puts the Trump Rally at Risk
The Federal Reserve announcement Wednesday of a 0.25 percent interest rate hike was expected, justified by higher inflation expectations and an improved economic outlook. What wasn’t expected: the...
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Dow 50,000? Why Trump Will Have a Hard Time Matching Obama's Bull Market
By John Melloy, CNBCInvestor enthusiasm around his presidency has helped push the Dow Jones industrial average to the cusp of 20,000. Now all President-elect Donald Trump needs to do while in office to get the Dow to 50...
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Two Factors Threatening the Market’s Trump Rally
The Dow Jones Industrial Average continues to climb toward the 20,000 level, helped by the rout underway in bonds as interest rates soar. The yield on 10-year U.S. Treasuries jumped above 2.5 percent...