In the wee hours of 31 October, the U.S. Federal Reserve quietly passed $29.4 billion in fresh cash to the U.S. banking system through an expansion of overnight repurchase agreements (repos).
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PAY GROWTH SLOWS FOR AMERICAN WORKERS
Aside from a post-COVID spurt, real income for U.S. workers in their prime earning years ages 25 to 54 is growing at its slowest pace since the economy began to recover from the Great Recession more than a decade ago, the JPMorgan Chase Institute reported.
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INFLATION ROSE AGAIN IN SEPTEMBER BUT LESS THAN EXPECTED
Last month, the U.S. Consumer Price Index rose to 3 percent after ending August at 2.7 percent. Stock markets were buoyed by the news that the number squeaked in below analysts’ consensus forecast of 3.1 percent in a Wall Street Journal survey.
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SPOTLIGHT: BIGS GETTING BIGGER
Private equity firm BlackRock reported assets under its management at the end of the third quarter were valued at $13.46 trillion, compared to $11.48 trillion a year earlier.
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LABOR MARKETS IN ADVANCED ECONOMIES ARE SEIZING UP
Employers in G7 countries, considered the world’s most advanced, hesitate to hire or to lay off workers as uncertainties over interest rates, taxes, tariffs, and artificial intelligence (AI) leaves them unable to plan, the Financial Times reported.
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TARIFFS ARE READY TO TEST GLOBAL ECONOMY, OECD SAYS
The world’s economy has maintained a better pace of growth this year than expected as government incentives and spending prop up China’s teetering GDP and AI investments cushion weakness elsewhere in the U.S. economy, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) said in a report released last week.
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U.S. AUTO INDUSTRY’S FLASHERS ARE WARNING THE AMERICAN ECONOMY
Americans are buying fewer cars, tariffs are shrinking automakers’ margins, the shift to electric mobility has stalled, and a company making car loans to subprime borrowers recently collapsed, all indications that a key U.S. industry might be rolling downhill.
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INFLATION ROSE AGAIN IN AUGUST
By several measures, consumer prices continued to rise again in August.
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SPOTLIGHT: BIGS GETTING BIGGER
As we detail in this and previous Trends Journals, investment into the private equity business and Merger and Acquisition activity have been in decline.
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SPECIAL REPORT, THE FED’S RATE CUT: WHAT NEXT?
On 17 September, the U.S. Federal Reserve’s Open Market Committee shaved a quarter point from its policy interest rate, dropping the rate charged on loans to 4.25 percent in its first rate reduction since December 2024 and to its lowest in almost three years.