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[unable to retrieve full-text content]The political pressure on Powell is heating up. The Fed chair has a plan for that.  Yahoo Finance Source link

LIVE: Fed Chair Jerome Powell delivers remarks following FOMC meeting – Yahoo Finance Source link

The writer is former Chair of the FDIC and former Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Treasury for Financial Institutions. In today’s society, finger pointing has replaced accountability. Instead of owning up to our shortcomings, we increasingly want to blame others. So it was refreshing that in a recent CNN interview, Janet Yellen, the first female U.S. Treasury Secretary, said that she had been wrong in her early predictions that inflation would be transitory. With welcome candor, she admitted… Source link

AXA General Insurance Hong Kong Limited named home Big Idea Chair Champion winner ITeSHOP & American Express swept the awards with immersive AR and media commerce campaigns HONG KONG, March 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Yahoo today live-streamed the winner announcement of the “Yahoo Asia Big Idea Chair Awards 2021” (Yahoo Asia BIC Awards 2021) on Yahoo TV. Amidst another year of commotion, the awards celebrated undue creativity in the digital media and advertising industry as the world struggles to… Source link

In early 2020, an accounting scandal at Luckin Coffee blindsided its American stockholders as the coffeehouse chain’s stock price fell to the floor. Luckin Coffee highlighted a problem: American investors knew little of Chinese company financials while the stocks trade freely on U.S. exchanges. The incident sparked questions regarding whether other crises involving U.S.-listed Chinese companies lurked around the corner. Congress acted to stop the next Luckin by passing the Holding Foreign… Source link

Stocks gained on Monday at the start of a holiday-shortened week, as traders considered the highly anticipated renomination of Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell to the top role at the central bank.  The Dow added more than 250 points, or 0.8%, during morning trading. The S&P 500 and Nasdaq each also advanced. Investors kicked off the week on a strong note, with equity and bond-market trading set to close fully on Thursday and early on Friday for the Thanksgiving holiday.  President Joe… Source link

The Biden administration looks set to soon announce its pick for who will lead the nation’s economic steward: the Federal Reserve. The White House appears to be weighing two options: keeping Jerome Powell as Fed chair or replacing him with current Fed Governor Lael Brainard. Both reportedly met with President Joe Biden earlier in the month. Biden said on Tuesday, per the White House press pool, that a decision would come in about four days (or Saturday, November 20). Personnel could change… Source link

The hot demand for investment securities linked to bitcoin does not appear to be moving the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s stance toward other products more directly linked to the cryptocurrency. SEC Chair Gary Gensler said he still has concerns about investor protection in the $2.5 trillion market for crypto assets. “Investors aren’t protected the way they are, whether they go into the stock or bonds markets that we’ve overseen so long,” said Gensler at Yahoo Finance’s… Source link

(Bloomberg) — Senator Elizabeth Warren, pressing Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell on his record on financial regulation, said she wouldn’t support him for a second term as head of the U.S. central bank — the highest-profile Democrat with a say on his confirmation to come out against him. Most Read from Bloomberg “Your record gives me grave concern,” the Massachusetts Democrat said Tuesday during a Senate Banking Committee hearing. “You have acted to make our banking system less… Source link

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chair Gary Gensler will lean on corporate disclosures as the Biden administration sets its eyes on curbing anti-competitive behavior. In a meeting of the newly-formed White House Competition Council set to take place later this week, Gensler will also emphasize the agency’s examination of the impact of revenue models like payment for order flows, a senior SEC official told Yahoo Finance. The SEC is one of six independent agencies scheduled to… Source link