Lan Fo’an, China’s finance minister, center, speaks as Zheng Shanjie, chairman of the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), left, and Pan Gongsheng, governor of the People’s Bank of China (PBOC), listen during a news conference on the sidelines of the National People’s Congress in Beijing, China, on Wednesday, March 6, 2024. Bloomberg | Bloomberg … Read more
Boeing 737 MAX airliners are pictured at the company’s factory on Thursday, Sept. 12, 2024, in Renton, Wash. Stephen Brashear | AP Boeing will cut 10% of its workforce, or about 17,000 people, as the company’s losses mount and a machinist strike that has idled its aircraft factories enters its fifth week. Boeing expects to … Read more
Michael Shvartsman walks following a hearing at the Manhattan Federal Court, in New York City, U.S. July 20, 2023. Amr Alfiky | Reuters Prosecutors are asking a New York federal court judge to sentence two brothers to years in prison for their admitted insider trading in a blank-check company’s securities before it announced a planned … Read more
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell arrives to a news conference following the September meeting of the Federal Open Market Committee at the William McChesney Martin Jr. Federal Reserve Board Building on September 18, 2024 in Washington, DC. Anna Moneymaker | Getty Images This week’s inflation data provided more evidence that the Federal Reserve is nearing … Read more
Jeff Greenberg | Universal Images Group | Getty Images Inflation has eased gradually across the broad U.S. economy — and some areas of consumer spending, like furniture and gasoline, have even deflated over the past year. Deflation is when prices decline for goods and services. It’s rare for prices to fall from their current levels … Read more
Horst Jicha discussing cryptocurrency. Source: Team Business Global | YouTube A German national who was under home detention in New York City on a $5 million bond guaranteed by his domestic partner and children in a case in which he was charged with overseeing a $150 million cryptocurrency fraud is now a fugitive. “There’s a … Read more
A measure of wholesale prices showed no change in September, pointing to a continued easing in inflation, the Labor Department reported Friday. The producer price index, which measures what producers get for their goods and services, was flat for the month and up 1.8% from a year ago. Economists surveyed by Dow Jones had been … Read more
Andrew Feldman, co-founder and CEO of Cerebras Systems, speaks at the Collision conference in Toronto on June 20, 2024. Ramsey Cardy | Sportsfile | Collision | Getty Images AI chipmaker Cerebras is trying to be the first major venture-backed tech company to go public in the U.S. since April and to capitalize on investors’ insatiable … Read more
Wells Fargo on Friday reported third-quarter earnings that exceeded Wall Street expectations, causing its shares to rise. Here’s what the bank reported compared with what Wall Street was expecting, based on a survey of analysts by LSEG: Adjusted earnings per share: $1.52 vs. $1.28 expected Revenue: $20.37 billion versus $20.42 billion expected Shares of the bank rose … Read more
JPMorgan Chase CEO and Chairman Jamie Dimon speaks during the U.S. Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee oversight hearing on Wall Street firms, on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., December 6, 2023. Evelyn Hockstein | Reuters JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon sees risks climbing around the world amid widening conflicts in the Middle East … Read more
