Federal Reserve cuts its key interest rate by a quarter-point amid postelection uncertainty
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Norway's $1.8 trillion wealth fund issues stock market warning – heightened uncertainty and concerns over the economic outlook mean that stock market risks are tilted to the downside
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Donald Trump and the Joe Biden White House both say the United States should have a sovereign wealth fund – Norway, home to the world's largest, may offer a few lessons
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Russian banks say yuan coffers empty, urge central bank action, while Chinese banks in Russia are avoiding currency trading for fear of secondary Western sanctions
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Dow Jones drops 864 points, and Japanese stocks suffer worst crash since 1987 amid US economy worries
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Japanese stocks rebound after global sell-off; US futures edge up
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Europe’s banks find breaking up with Russia is hard to do
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Vast coin collection of Danish butter magnate L.E. Bruun is set to finally go on sale a century after his death, and could fetch up to $72 million
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The US Federal Reserve fears a bond meltdown
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Japan intervenes after Yen slides against the Dollar
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US Federal Reserve official lamented how “bashing the Fed is a bipartisan sport”
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Rents are the Federal Reserve’s ‘biggest stumbling block’ in taming US inflation
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Bank of Canada says the country faces a productivity 'emergency'
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US Federal Reserve’s Jerome Powell ready to support job market, even if it means lingering inflation
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Why the 2% inflation target?
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Millennium trader scored $40 million windfall in Egypt FX plunge
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Is private equity actually worth it?
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ETF approval for bitcoin – the naked emperor’s new clothes [European Central Bank criticises US securities regulator for approving a Bitcoin ETF]
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US markets get ready for risk-free Federal Reserve arbitrage trade to expire
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Easy money [exploring the effects of low central bank interest rates]
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Denmark set to withdraw the 1,000 kroner note, its largest denomination, from circulation by May 2025 – just 10% of payments in stores are made in cash
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Norway's $1.4 trillion sovereign wealth fund, the world's largest, on Tuesday reported losses of 2.1% in the third quarter, as all asset classes fell in value
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Europe's single currency, used daily by about 350 million people, has become a hot topic in an unlikely place – Sweden
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Federal Reserve to propose lowering US debit-card swipe fees
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Rising long-term interest rates are posing the latest threat to a US economic ‘soft landing’
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America's obsession with weight-loss drugs is affecting the economy of Denmark – Novo Nordisk's market capitalization has matched the GDP of its home country
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Bank of England outage hits key payments systems processing billions
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US Federal Reserve Board announces a consent order and a $268.5 million fine with UBS Group AG, of Zurich, Switzerland, for misconduct by Credit Suisse, which UBS subsequently acquired in June 2023
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US Federal Reserve announces that its new system for instant payments, the FedNow Service, is now live
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How much have record corporate profits contributed to recent US inflation?
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The Fed thinks catastrophe is coming for US businesses
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Canadian interest rate increases = stave off the housing bubble (or create a spectacular burst?)
Do you guys think they're using rate increases to kill off all the overleveraged homeowners in an effort to create a sell-off and thereby lower housing costs? Could someone smarter than I please...
Do you guys think they're using rate increases to kill off all the overleveraged homeowners in an effort to create a sell-off and thereby lower housing costs?
Could someone smarter than I please explain what is going on... or is our inflation that bad? Seems like some of the inflation might be what I've read as greedflation. I didn't realize we jumped almost 3.75% in less than a year last year...
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Swedish core inflation slowed less than expected in May as Beyoncé fans flooding Stockholm may have driven an increase in hotel prices
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US Federal Reserve holds off on rate hike, but says two more are coming later this year
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Norway's $1.4tn wealth fund calls for state regulation of AI – Nicolai Tangen says fund will set guidelines for companies it invests in on ethical use of AI
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Age of Easy Money | PBS Frontline documentary
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Norway's sovereign wealth fund reported a record loss of $164 billion for the whole of 2022, citing 'very unusual' market conditions
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Norway's fossil fuel bonanza stokes impassioned debate about how best to spend its 'war profits'
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Battle for the nation's soul – Norway faces debate about gas and oil wealth
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Norway's digital currency experiment – what is it and how does it work?
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UK in turmoil as government's gamble to solve economic woes fuels crisis, instead
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Denmark's decade-long experiment with negative rates seen ending soon – central bank raised its key interest rate
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Monetary policy, inflation outlook, and recession probabilities
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The stock market kinda wants a recession
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As the money pours in, Europe's second-biggest natural gas supplier Norway is fending off accusations that it's profiting from the war in Ukraine
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The US Federal Reserve is set to pull back economic help rapidly. Is it too late?
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How Russia rescued the ruble
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(Don't fear) the yield curve, reprise
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Boom time in Norway as the West cracks down on Russian oil
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Leaving QE, never easy
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