Buried in a rote US Treasury survey released on the eve of the latest holiday weekend was a question that all of Wall Street wants the answer to: What’s the Federal Reserve’s plan once it’s done drawing down its crisis-era bond holdings?

Respondents dialed back their expectations for interest rate cuts but still believe the central bank will ease this year.

With healthy hiring and some progress on inflation, Fed official have said that the pace of rate cuts will slow this year.

Nvidia Corp., the poster child of the AI frenzy, sank 17 per cent and headed toward the biggest market-cap loss for a single stock in market history. The AI leader wiped of $500 billion of its market value and shed 21 per cent off its stock price in two days.

Citi—which anticipates five rate cuts in 2025—has a downbeat forecast for a meager 0.7 percent growth. Bank of America is forecasting an above-consensus 2.4 percent growth for the year, hence their view for no rate cuts. ING, meanwhile, expects two percent growth.

For Wall Street, it was a welcome return to the type of environment craved by traders and bankers after a muted period when the Federal Reserve was raising rates as it grappled with inflation. Boosted by a Fed in easing mode and the election of Donald ...

Wall Street’s main indexes closed higher on Tuesday, with the S&P 500 and the Dow hitting their highest in more than a month, as investors assessed Donald Trump’s first actions as president and breathed relief that he did not start his second term with blanket tariff increases.

Eastern time, the S&P 500 was 0.3 per cent higher. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 0.3 per cent and the Nasdaq Composite was 0.8 per cent higher

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U.S. stocks were headed for a sharp drop on Monday, led by technology shares, as surging interest in Chinese startup DeepSeek's low-cost artificial intelligence model raised doubts over the sector's lofty valuations.

World stocks are mixed follow Wall Street’s mostly positive performance ahead of key U.S. inflation data that could influence the pace of the Federal Reserve’s rate cuts.

Shares are mixed in Asia after U.S. stocks edged back from their all-time high, with many regional markets closed for lunar new year holidays