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It is day 194 of the second Trump administration and it was not a good day for the Trump economy. On Wall Street, the Dow, S&P, and NASDAQ all lost more than a full percentage point. The selloff comes after Trump rolled out a list of new tariff rates on countries that haven't reached trade deals with the US.Those new rates take effect one week from today. But the big headline, the real story was the labor market. Economists were set to see a weak July jobs report today, but it was even worse than expected.I ...

She has been a member of the Fed Board of Governors since September 13th, 2023. Let's try to get some more information right now because we have an expert sitting to our right. Michael McKee, talk us through what we know so far.Well, this is a total surprise. Obviously, there was some issue that she had to deal with that made her miss the Fed meeting, which is an extremely unusual thing to do. But we don't have any information on why she is resigning at this point.But basically, effective immediately, she i ...

Market Trends - Municipal bonds are rallying along with US Treasuries [1] - Soft US jobs data spurred bets that the Federal Reserve will cut interest rates as early as next month [1]

We're going to talk about the Vanguard Ultra-Short Bond ETF (BATS:VUSB). As you might guess from the name, it focuses on bonds with very short duration. This can be a useful tool for someone hunting for a boost to their income without taking on too much duration. The ironic part is that “Ultra-Short” sounds to me like it would be averaging around three months of duration. However, the fund actually averages around 0.9 years using “average duration”: Vanguard That’s why the ETF share price took a hit from la ...

for the first few months when we saw those big numbers um that was the Biden economy. Now that the Trump policy is taking effect, you're seeing downward revisions of 258,000 over the last uh couple of months, only 73,000 jobs added. And it looks like not just to me, but to uh uh participants in this market that today's weak payroll numbers are a direct result of the conscious policy to limit immigration.And I'm just wondering if that trade-off is delivering the kind of benefits you want to see to us workers ...

The Federal Reserve held interest rates steady again this week, and could even keep them in neutral until October. For savers, this is excellent news. https://t.co/5S92a880VD ...

Let's just start with these numbers, because the figure that we got that was below all estimates in the Bloomberg survey of economists to start. What's your reaction. Well, certainly we know they could have been better.But, you know, we look at the positive because we still have a net positive, almost a half a million new jobs since the president took office. Where did we see some of these gains. We saw them in health care. We're seeing them in construction. We are seeing the revisions.I know is something t ...