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Jamie Dimon, the chief executive of JPMorgan Chase, on Friday warned of an “unsettling” global landscape, highlighting a cascade of pressures including war, rising geopolitical tensions and inflation that threaten the economy and could weigh on the performance of the nation’s largest bank.Mr. Dimon’s remarks, made concurrently with his bank’s…

New York CNN  —  These are tough times for two big US dollar store chains. In the past month, Family Dollar said it will close nearly 1,000 stores and 99 Cents Only said it will go out of business.…

The aerial view shows residential buildings under construction in Hangzhou, China on March 15, 2024.STR | AFP | Getty ImagesRatings agency Fitch revised its outlook on China's sovereign credit rating to negative on Tuesday, citing risks to public finances as the economy faced increasing uncertainty in its shift to new growth models.Fitch…

American companies and consumers have cut their borrowing in response to higher interest rates, but this has not affected their actual spending. The result is that the U.S. economy is still continuing to grow briskly in both real and nominal terms despite years of allegedly “tight monetary policy”.The explanation seems to be twofold. First,…

12 Mins AgoChina's central bank announces $70 billion 're-loan' program to support tech SMEs The People's Bank of China has announced a "re-loan" program of 500 billion yuan ($70 billion) for technological innovation and transformation to support small and medium-sized tech enterprises.A re-loan program uses funds lent by the PBOC to commercial…

WASHINGTON — Many Americans are in a sour mood about the economy for one main reason: Prices feel too high.Maybe they're not rising as fast as they had been, but average prices are still painfully above where they were three years ago. And they're mostly heading higher still.Consider a 2-liter bottle of soda: In February 2021, before inflation…

Federal Reserve officials spent much of 2022 and 2023 worried that the job market was too strong to be sustainable. Employers were racing to snap up a limited supply of workers, the logic went, leading to rapid wage gains that would eventually prod those companies to raise prices to cover their labor costs.But instead of viewing rapid job gains…

With the Federal Reserve keeping interest rates higher for longer, most types of loans will have higher rates for the foreseeable future. However, there is a secondary market for loans in the form of debt securitization, or the process of packaging debt to be sold as securities to a single investor. What does this mean for investors' wallets and…

Citadel founder and CEO Ken Griffin sounded the alarm about the growing U.S. national debt in his annual letter to investors in his hedge fund that was published Monday.Griffin pointed to recent projections by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) that show the national debt rising to historic levels due to higher spending on…

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