Flush with cash from a multi-year stock market rally, continued consumer spending, and a robust earnings season, American corporations have announced plans to repurchase a record $518 billion worth of their own shares in 2025.
Tag: U.S. Economy
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FED HELD RATES STEADY AS IT BRACES FOR TARIFFS’ IMPACT
The U.S. Federal Reserve left its key interest rates unchanged at last week’s meeting and warned that risks are rising that Donald Trump’s tariff campaign will raise prices and eliminate jobs.
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ECONOMIC UPDATE—MARKET OVERVIEW
Once again, another day of Donald Trump in the White House, and another day of him playing The Trump Card. And with each play of the Trump Card, it is another day of the world wondering what will be the next Wild Card that will be dealt.
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SPECIAL REPORT: TRUMP’S TARIFFS, THE UPS AND DOWNS, FOR BETTER AND FOR WORSE
Faced with the loss of U.S. trade as Donald Trump’s tariff war began to take hold, China’s factory output shrank in April by the most in the past 15 months, the Financial Times reported.
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GLOBAL CRYPTO PLATFORMS PLAN OFFICES IN U.S.
Encouraged by Donald Trump’s enthusiasm for digital assets and his administration’s moves to rescind strict oversight measures, cryptocurrency trading platforms are actively looking to open outlets for U.S. customers.
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IBM PLANS TO INVEST $150 BILLION IN U.S. BY 2030
IBM will invest $150 billion in its U.S. computer production facilities by the end of this decade, the company announced last week.
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BURGER CHAINS’ FIRST-QUARTER RESULTS: NOT A HAPPY MEAL
McDonald’s sales dropped 3.6 percent year over year in 2025’s first quarter, marking the biggest annual decline since the onset of the COVID War early in 2020, the company said. Net income was off by 3 percent.
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MORE AMERICANS ARE GLUM ABOUT THEIR ABILITY TO SAVE
A new survey has found that 67 percent of Americans are failing to reach their savings goals and 47 percent now believe they never will. The survey of 2,000 adults across all generations was commissioned by Current, an online financial services app.
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TRUMP’S FIRST 100 DAYS WORST SUCH PERIOD FOR STOCK MARKET IN 50 YEARS
The Standard & Poor’s 500 index of leading U.S. stocks lost 7.7 percent of its value during Donald Trump’s first 100 days in office, the worst outcome for any president’s first three months since Gerald Ford came to the White House in 1974, the Financial Times has calculated.
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U.S. MANUFACTURING CONTRACTS FURTHER IN APRIL
Last month, U.S. factories continued to cut back their output, reflecting a trend to thrift among consumers and worries over the impact of Donald Trump’s global trade war.