A rapidly escalating bird-flu outbreak in the US is contributing to a surge in egg prices and threatens to raise prices on other poultry products in the coming months as deaths continue to mount. Cases of highly pathogenic avian influenza so far have led to the deaths of more than 17 million birds, according to […]
What better time to invest in financials than at a time with rampant inflation and a Federal Reserve promising 11 rate hikes over the next two years? That’s not the view at Deuterium Capital, which is expecting a sharp slowdown in the economy. The Deuterium Global Dynamic Allocation Fund is mostly driven by a macroeconomic […]
Federal Reserve Governor Christopher Waller has no doubt about how competitive today’s housing market is. “Trust me, I know it is red hot because I am trying to buy a house here in Washington and the market is crazy,” Waller said in a speech at a housing conference. But even as home and rental prices […]
Text size JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon. Michel Euler/Pool/AFP/Getty Images JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon told President Biden at a Monday meeting that the United States needs a “Marshall Plan” for energy. The two spoke at a meeting attended by executives from large US energy companies like Exxon Mobil (ticker: XOM) and financial firms. The […]
President Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine, and the wave of Western sanctions in response, is starting to hit Russia’s economic engine: Its prodigious oil-and-gas industry. The US and Canada have barred the little Russian oil they import, while the European Union is considering a ban. But for the most part, Western sanctions have so far […]
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has shaken the global market for uranium, a critical fuel for nuclear-power plants, prompting some in the US to propose reviving domestic production. Russia enriches more uranium for use in nuclear plants than any other country in the world. Its increasing economic isolation following its attack on Ukraine—and talk of potential […]
The US Securities and Exchange Commission headquarters in Washington, DC Photo: Al Drago/Bloomberg News Russia’s assault on Ukraine is changing the world—except Washington, DC, where the Biden Administration is continuing its war on fossil fuels as if energy security doesn’t matter. The latest strike came Monday when the Securities and Exchange Commission voted 3-1 to […]
The US Securities and Exchange Commission headquarters in Washington, DC Photo: Al Drago/Bloomberg News Russia’s assault on Ukraine is changing the world—except Washington, DC, where the Biden Administration is continuing its war on fossil fuels as if energy security doesn’t matter. The latest strike came Monday when the Securities and Exchange Commission voted 3-1 to […]
Manufacturers with Russian ties are working to figure out how to survive, after sanctions leveled on Russia over recent weeks curb the flow of goods and money between the country and Western markets. Sanctions, and private companies’ moves to pull back from Russia, have upended operations for companies whose ownership and supply chains link back […]
US stocks and government bond yields edged down after the Federal Reserve raised interest rates for the first time since 2018 and oil soared as the market’s focus returned to the Ukraine war. The S&P 500 declined 0.4% in early trading, after the broad-market index closed more than 2% higher on the past two consecutive […]
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