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After two weeks of intense political and legal scrutiny, the Federal Reserve will seek to make this week's meeting about interest rates as straightforward and uneventful as possible, though President Donald Trump probably still won't like the result. Fed
Global trading houses are back in Venezuelan oil, with Vitol and Trafigura authorized by the Trump Administration to market crude following the ousting of Nicolas Maduro
Big banks still pay near 0% on savings, while smaller banks offer much higher rates with the same federal protection.
Mortgage rates are holding near recent three-year lows as the Fed meets this week, raising a key question for buyers and homeowners watching what comes next.
The deadly and widespread winter storm paralyzing much of the American East with ice, snow and cold is also taking a multi-billion dollar bite out of the U.S. economy, experts figure. Economists and meteorologists are trying to get a handle on the disrup
RelaDyne has acquired Dennis Oil Company, expanding its footprint across the U.S. Midwest and strengthening its position in commercial and industrial lubricants.
March WTI crude oil (CLH26 ) on Monday closed down -0.434 (-0.72%), and March RBOB gasoline (RBH26 ) closed down -0.0312 (-1.67%). Crude oil and gasoline prices closed lower on Monday, falling back after last Friday's rally. Crude oil prices fell on Monda
The Federal Reserve's policy committee is scheduled to meet next in late January, after cutting the Fed's key interest rate at each of the last three meetings.
The Federal Reserve is expected to hold interest rates steady for its first policy meeting of 2026.
The 12-year-old firm raised $360,360,360 for its fifth fund. And there's a reason for that number.
After record snowfall and thousands of flight cancellations, BofA warned that a Viola-style economic chill is coming —though most of that growth may be delayed, not destroyed.
“Legitimacy increasingly flows to whoever processes uncertainty first. Markets have optimized for speed. Democracy has been designed for deliberation.”
The University of Michigan’s Justin Wolfers sees Trump’s economy set to derail growth for a whole generation.
Chevron has taken more oil after shipments by the so-called dark fleet vanished, following the US’s pledge to clamp down on illicit oil trading and Maduro’s ouster earlier this year. The US also has enlisted traders Trafigura Group and Vitol Group to hel