Month: August 2019

Federal Reserve Vice Chair Richard Clarida said Friday that the global economy has deteriorated in the past month. “Obviously, the global economy has worsened since our July meeting,” Clarida told CNBC’s Steve Liesman on Friday from the Fed’s economic policy symposium in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. “The global economy is slowing and there’s powerful disinflationary pressures.”
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International Monetary Fund chief economist Gita Gopinath speaks during a press conference in Washington D.C., on April 9, 2019. Liu Jie | Xinhua News Agency | Getty Images The outlook for the global economy keeps getting bleaker, the chief economist at the International Monetary Fund said Friday. “As the year is progressing, it’s getting harder
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Actor Ewan McGregor arrives at the premiere of Disney Pictures and Lucasfilm’s ‘Solo: A Star Wars Story’ at the El Capitan Theatre on May 10, 2018 in Hollywood, California. Axelle/Bauer-Griffin | FilmMagic | Getty Images It’s official. Ewan McGregor will be reprising his iconic role as Obi-Wan Kenobi for Disney’s streaming service Disney+. On Friday,
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President Trump speaks to the media. (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images) Getty Images Trump’s mention that he might temporarily cut payroll taxes comes right out of the Obama administration’s playbook. From the way the current White House has talked, such a possibility has all the trappings of a contingency plan to give the economy a
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Lowe’s reported second-quarter earnings that beat Wall Street’s estimates, sending its share surging by more than 7% in premarket trading. Here’s how the company did, compared with what Wall Street was expecting, according to Refinitiv consensus estimates: Adjusted earnings per share: $2.15, vs. $2.01 estimated Revenue: $20.99 billion, vs. $20.94 billion estimated Same store sales:
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Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell repeated his pledge Friday to keep the economic expansion going while acknowledging that tariffs and other factors are causing growth to slow. In his annual remarks at the central bank’s Jackson Hole symposium, Powell, while not saying specifically where thought rates should go, pledged that the Fed “will act as
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David Koch, the billionaire, industrialist, philanthropist, political activist and onetime vice presidential candidate for the Libertarian Party, died Friday. He was 79. “It is with a heavy heart that I announce the passing of my brother David,” Charles Koch announced in a statement. “Anyone who worked with David surely experienced his giant personality and passion
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