Trump sends handwritten note to Powell pushing for dramatically lower interest rates
President Donald Trump has continued to put pressure on Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell to dramatically lower interest rates.
President Donald Trump has continued to put pressure on Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell to dramatically lower interest rates.
The Nasdaq-100 index’s unusually strong rally has left investors questioning whether U.S. large-cap tech stocks are “dangerously overextended,” according to DataTrek Research.
The stock tokens give E.U. investors exposure to hundreds of U.S. stocks, as well as to private companies SpaceX and OpenAI.
Bank stocks have outperformed the broad market with Goldman Sachs up 23% and JPMorgan Chase up 22% in the first half of 2025.
June’s bond-market rally could give way to a different trading dynamic in July that results in a fresh round of volatility in the government’s shortest-term debt obligations, known as Treasury bills.
U.S. companies are throwing the dice on less policy uncertainty, and lower interest rates, in the future.