At this point in the stock market game, it’s all about interest rates.
In the U.S., the bet on The Street is that following the Fed’s meeting on Wednesday, there is a 98-percent probability that the central bank will raise interest rates 25-basis points, according to the CME FedWatch Tool.
Sales of existing homes, which normally make up most of the housing market, dropped 3.3 percent in June from May to 4.16 million units, down 18.9 percent from a year earlier and the slowest sales pace since January, the National Association of Realtors reported.
The number of office buildings burdened with troubled loans, or already repossessed by lenders, jumped 36 percent in this year’s second quarter from the first, MSCI Real Assets reported.
Altering the natural genetics of trees and increasing the use of glyphosate might not strike many sensible people as “environmentally friendly.”
Congress published an FBI agent's redacted write-up from June 2020 that claimed President Joe Biden and his troubled son Hunter both pulled in $5 million in bribes from Mykola Zlochevsky, the owner of Burisma—who felt “coerced” to make the payment.
Politicians in Washington continue to be owned and operated by Israel after the House overwhelmingly passed a resolution that rejected claims that the country is racist against Palestinians or an apartheid state.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a Republican hopeful for president, refused to say if he would push Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to cede land to Russia to bring peace and stability to Ukraine.
Car thefts in 32 of the 37 largest cities in the U.S. jumped 33.5 percent in the first six months of 2023 compared to the same time frame last year, according to the Council on Criminal Justice.
Americans continue to have little faith in some of the country’s biggest institutions and the presidency and Supreme Court have seen the biggest declines.
Rival factions have been fighting in Sudan since mid-April leading to a humanitarian crisis that has been essentially ignored by the Western media presstitutes because they’re not Ukrainians.