Oil Prices have tumbled of late, helping to keep inflation at bay. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)Getty ImagesKey TakeawaysMarkets Rally Despite Shutdown Fears As Fed Rate Cuts AnticipatedFICO Surges On Direct Access Plan, Hurting Credit RivalsAI Partnerships Boost Chip Stocks As Traders Brace For VolatilityNormally, this would be a date we would all prepare are positions and gather round so we could react to the release of the Bureau of Labor Statistics release of the previous month employment situation a ...

Key Points The Federal Reserve is in the middle of a delicate tango between inflation and interest rates. The most recent rate cut was modest, and Wall Street seems to believe it was just the start. Rate cuts could be a big benefit to financial stocks like AGNC Investment, W.P. Carey, and Simon Property Group. 10 stocks we like better than AGNC Investment Corp. › One of the Federal Reserve's mandates is to fight inflation. Recent research from The Motley Fool highlights that inflation has a lon ...

Let's bring back Marley into the conversation and welcome in our next guest. Very pleased to say we are joined by Shanali Basak who is the chief investment strategist at I Capital. It's so nice to see you Shanali.So how are you and your team over at I Capital thinking about the government shutdown and the impact on the markets right now. >> You know what you said before was absolutely correct. It is very typical to see volatility going into a shutdown deadline but typically historically the market really ha ...

All right, so my next guest is uh a big part of the global market insight strategy team over at JP Morgan and they just released their fourth quarter 2025 guide to market. So let's bring in JP Morgan asset management, America's chief market strategist, Gabrielle Santos. And uh I I love when you guys put this kind of stuff out.It's a it's a lot of reading. So you you narrowed it down at least for us for maybe the five critical things that viewers and investors should be thinking about. Let's talk about that. ...

Enz, also we keep talking about how we might not be getting government economic data for a little while and therefore we're paying more attention to some of the private data points. We got once one of those this morning from ADP and it wasn't very encouraging. >> Uh no, it wasn't.Uh and um those those uh that data came in uh lower than expected with uh jobs shrinking. Um look this has been uh in fact the fact the reason why you saw the yields coming down is because of that ADP uh report and since that repor ...

Inflation is hovering near 3% again, and the Federal Reserve (the Fed) has signaled it could keep cutting interest rates. For most people, that headline raises a bigger question: What should I do with my money? Find Out: Money Influencer Delyanne Barros: Why Boring Could Be Best for Investing Read Next: Mark Cuban Tells Americans To Stock Up on Consumables as Trump's Tariffs Hit -- Here's What To Buy Investing experts translated the Fed-speak into plain steps you can take right now. Understand the Rate C ...

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[Music] Good morning from Yahoo Finance's New York City headquarters studios. I'm Yao Finance executive editor Brian Sazi. You are watching Norwegian Cruise Line sailing into the New York Stock Exchange to ring the opening bell.Arc Best getting things underway over at the NASDAQ. Now, the rosecolored glasses remain on for investors to start the week, but maybe they shouldn't be when taking a look at the potential minefields out there over the next 5 days of trading. Government shutdown could happen on Octob ...

BTC USD price steadied near $109,000 on Friday after US inflation data aligned with expectations, leaving sellers pressing support into the Wall Street open. The move came as Elon Musk’s Grok AI maintained a call that September will likely close near current levels. The Fed’s preferred inflation gauge, the core personal consumption expenditures (PCE) index, showed a +2.9% annual rise in August, while headline PCE climbed 2.7%. Both matched the economist forecasts. (Source: US PCE index change: US Beaure ...

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