It’s that time of the year when the CNBC International team gets to cross the Atlantic for a full week of coverage from Washington, D.C. While we may be on American soil, Europe will take center stage as we speak to central bank governors and finance ministers from across the continent who are attending the…
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness,” Charles Dickens famously wrote. That aptly captures the dislocation between political events and market action as we go into the next week. The U.S. government shutdown has stoked worries about its…
Russian President Vladimir Putin during a meeting on development of ‘new regions’, annexed from Ukraine, at the Kremlin, June 30, 2025, in Moscow, Russia. Contributor | Getty Images Russia is set to hike taxes on businesses and consumers as the government looks for ways to support military spending while its war-focused economy creaks at the…
Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland President Beth Hammack attends the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City’s 2025 Jackson Hole Economic Policy Symposium, “Labor Markets in Transition: Demographics, Productivity, and Macroeconomic Policy”, in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, U.S., August 21, 2025. Jim Urquhart | Reuters Cleveland Federal Reserve President Beth Hammack on Monday said the U.S. central…
How will the Federal Reserve spend its next couple of months? Actually, wait until the week ahead is through before making a prediction. The latest bundle of jobs data due out in the coming days will help shape the market’s expectations for interest rate cuts at the central bank’s final two policy meetings of the…
Traders work on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange in New York City, U.S., Sept. 17, 2025. Brendan McDermid | Reuters Stock market growth that seems impervious to tariffs, politics and a moribund jobs picture is in turn powering consumer spending and putting a floor under an economy that many expected to be…
Another Federal Reserve rate cut, another … rise in interest rates? That is the current dynamic across the Treasury yield curve — the real-time market rates — a week after the Fed’s first cut in policy interest rates in nearly a year. Many consumer loans, such as home equity and mortgages and credit cards —…
Europe-listed stocks listed are expected to open in mixed territory on Thursday, as investors await the latest U.S. jobs data. Futures tied to the FTSE 100 were last seen trading 0.2% lower, while those linked to the German DAX index and France’s CAC 40 were flat. On Thursday, the U.S. Labor Department will release its…
CNBC is on the road this week to assess if Europe’s economic recovery is intact. Source link
Federal Reserve Governor Stephen Miran said Friday that he doesn’t anticipate President Donald Trump’s tariffs will have an inflationary effect on the U.S. economy. “I’m clearly in the minority in not being concerned about inflation from tariffs,” he said on CNBC’s “Money Movers.” “But that was also true in 2018-2019, and I think I probably…
