Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange during morning trading on July 30, 2026 in New York City. Michael M. Santiago | Getty Images Hello, this is Anniek Bao writing to you from Singapore. Welcome to another edition of CNBC’s Daily Open. The Dow just notched its fifth straight record close,…
President Donald Trump‘s mass deportation campaign has caused the costs of groceries, homes and healthcare to rise and local economies to contract, a new report from the pro-immigration advocacy group America’s Voice. The group deems those added costs the “ICE Tax” — a reference to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement — and on Wednesday released…
An aerial view shows a former eel fishing boat covered in dried mud among on low water among the banks of the river Rhine near Neuss, western Germany, on July 30, 2026, as the water level in the Rhine is falling to a record low following exceptionally hot weather. Ina Fassbender | Afp | Getty…
Philadelphia Federal Reserve President Anna Paulson said Tuesday that she thinks the current level of interest rates is sufficient to keep inflation moving toward the central bank’s goal. In her first CNBC interview, the policymaker insisted she has an open mind about where monetary policy should go, but was confident in her vote last week…
U.S. Treasury yields were broadly flat on Tuesday as investors mulled the ongoing uncertainty around the state of negotiations in the Middle East. The yield on the 10-year U.S. Treasury note — the key benchmark for U.S. government borrowing — was flat at 4.686%. The 2-year Treasury note yield, which more closely tracks short-term Federal…
India Prime Minister Narendra Modi, left, with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, center, and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei at the AI Impact Summit in New Delhi on Feb. 19, 2026. Ludovic Marin | Afp | Getty Images Tech companies’ venture capital portfolios are making corporate profits look a lot stronger than they really are. Microsoft, Amazon…
The Federal Reserve may soon be drawn into the Trump administration’s efforts to back the embattled currency of U.S. ally Japan. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent wants the apolitical Fed to expand a lending facility that would enable Japan to support its currency without roiling the sensitive U.S. Treasurys market. That request comes as new Fed…
Washington’s decision to join Japan in supporting the battered yen has prompted questions over what motivated the rare coordinated intervention. Source link
Beth Hammack, president and chief executive officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, during a research conference at the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas in Dallas, Texas, US, on Friday, Oct. 31, 2025. Desiree Rios | Bloomberg | Getty Images Federal Reserve officials who voted this week against the decision to hold interest rates…
People shop for groceries at a store in Brooklyn on July 13, 2026 in New York City. Spencer Platt | Getty Images Pricing data from June indicated that outside of some select items where costs continue to grow, inflation is trending back towards the Federal Reserve’s inflation goal. So-called trimmed mean measures, which exclude outliers…
