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WASHINGTON—The Securities and Exchange Commission on Thursday said it would drop its lawsuit against two cryptocurrency executives who oversaw $1.5 billion in sales of a digital coin known as XRP, in a move that boosts the industry’s battle against traditional regulation. The dismissal of civil…
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American Airlines on Thursday beat estimates for third-quarter adjusted profit and said bookings for the upcoming holiday season have been stronger than last year, sending its shares up 1.6% in premarket trading. U.S. airlines with international operations are seeing relentless demand for…
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Electric vehicle manufacturers have realized that the prices of their cars are making it more difficult for many of them to compete against makers of lower-priced internal combustion engine vehicles. Tesla saw its third quarter deliveries fall below market estimates, prompting Elon Musk's company…
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Netflix added nine million subscribers in the third quarter and saw a year-over-year increase in revenue despite strikes by Hollywood writers and actors that brought the entertainment industry largely to a standstill. Netflix’s revenue hit $8.5 billion in the quarter, the streaming company said in…
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U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell holds a press conference after the release of the Fed policy decision to leave interest rates unchanged, at the Federal Reserve in Washington, U.S, September 20, 2023.
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Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell is set to deliver what could be a key policy address Thursday, in which he will be tasked with convincing markets the central bank is committed to keep hammering away at inflation, but perhaps now needs a little less force.
The top monetary policymaker will speak at noon ET to the Economic Club of New York at a critical time for the U.S. economy.
Inflation numbers have been improving lately, but Treasury yields have been surging, sending conflicting messages about where monetary policy might be headed. Markets largely expect the Fed to stay on hold with rates, but they will be looking to Powell for confirmation and clarification on how officials view both current conditions and longer-term trends.
“Powell is always tacking back to whatever helps feed the narrative that they need to stay vigilant, and for understandable reasons,” said Luke Tilley, chief economist at Wilmington Trust. “I just expect him to keep talking about the strength of the economy and the surprising strength of the consumer in the third quarter as a risk for inflation. That is enough ammunition to keep talking about staying vigilant.”
Essentially, Tilley expects the Powell message to break into three parts: The Fed needed to get rates high quickly, which it did; that it had to find a peak level, which is part of the current debate; and that it needs to figure out how long rates need to stay this high to get inflation back to its 2% target.
“Really, their ultimate goal is to keep financial conditions tight so inflation comes down,” he said. “He’s going to use that framework, even if he’s dovish about Nov. 1 [the next Fed rate decision] or December to shift the hawkishness to that third question of how long to keep them this high.”
“Higher for longer” has become an unofficial mantra in recent days, with Philadelphia Fed President Patrick Harker earlier this week mentioning the term specifically for how he feels about policy.
Harker was one of several Fed officials, including governors Philip Jefferson, who spoke earlier this month, and Christopher Waller, who spoke Wednesday, to advocate holding off on rate hikes at least in the immediate future while they weigh the impact of incoming data. Waller said the Fed can “wait, watch and see” before it moves on rates.
Powell is expected to join the chorus Thursday, even if his message is filled with caveats about not becoming complacent in the fight against inflation.
“Powell has to present himself to investors as the dispassionate neutral leader and allow [others] to be more aggressive,” said Jeffrey Roach, chief economist for LPL Financial. “They’re not going to declare victory, and that is one reason why Powell is going to continue to talk somewhat hawkish.”
To that point, New York Fed President John Williams on Wednesday moved some of the way there, when he repeated another familiar mantra, that the Fed will have to keep the “restrictive stance of policy in place for some time” to deal with inflation, according to a Reuters report.
Like the other speakers, Powell likely will reiterate a data-dependent focus for the Fed after a much more aggressive path in which it has raised its benchmark borrowing rate 11 times for a total of 5.25 percentage points, its highest level in 22 years. The Fed opted not to hike in September.
He also, though, will be looked to for some guidance as to how he feels about rising yields, in light of the 10-year Treasury having inched closer to 5% — its highest point in 16 years.
The chair “will stick to the message … that the data has been coming in stronger than expected, but there has also been a big move in yields, which has tightened financial conditions, so no urgency for a policy response in November and the Fed can adopt a wait-and-see approach,” Krishna Guha, head of global policy and central bank strategy at Evercore ISI, said in a client note.
Guha said that a Fed on hold now will only be a “down payment” on “extra cuts” in rates for 2024 as inflation and economic growth both weaken.
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An airstrike on a hospital in Gaza that Hamas says killed at least 500 people came from the Islamic Jihad terrorist group during a failed launch, Israel said.
“An analysis of IDF operational systems indicates that a barrage of rockets was fired by terrorists in Gaza, passing in close proximity to the Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital in Gaza at the time it was hit,” the Israel Defense Forces said. “Intelligence from multiple sources we have in our hands indicates that Islamic Jihad is responsible for the failed rocket launch which hit the hospital in Gaza.“
Earlier, the Hamas-run Health Ministry said at least 500 people were killed at the hospital. The deaths were the result of an Israeli airstrike, it said.
However, Israel said it was investigating the source of the explosion and said a hospital is not a target for its military forces.
“A hospital is a highly sensitive building and is not an IDF target,” the IDF said earlier.
An additional review and cross-examination of the operational and intelligence systems by the IDF concluded that Israel’s military didn’t fire the rocket, the IDF said.
The Islamic Jihad was responsible for the failed rocket launch, IDF spokesperson Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari said Tuesday.
The Israeli Foreign Ministry posted a clip on X, formally known as Twitter, of Qatar-based Al Jazeera purportedly showing the Islamic Jihad launch a rocket that misfired and hit the hospital.
“The Palestinians are falsely claiming Israel targeted a hospital in the Gaza Strip,” the ministry said. “The thing is, they’re the ones who have a habit of launching missiles at hospitals packed with innocent civilians.”
Israeli Prime Minister pushed back on accusations by Hamas and Palestinian supporters that the IDF targeted the hospital full of wounded people and others seeking shelter.
“The whole world knew: The barbarian terrorists in Gaza are the ones who attacked the hospital in Gaza, not the IDF,” he wrote on X, formally Twitter. “He who brutally murdered our children, also murders his children.”
Gilad Erdan, Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations, said the terrorists in Gaza “are not only responsible for murdering Israeli children – they also murder Palestinian children!”
“You’ve seen Hamas and PIJ beheading children. Stop believing these ISIS-like terrorists,” he wrote on social media. “The only ones shooting indiscriminate missiles at civilians are the Palestinians, who have been doing it for years!”
An image that accompanied the post said terror groups in Gaza purposefully place launching pits and posts within civilian areas and in the line of fire, which makes them vulnerable to misfires.
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On this day two years ago, Arizona Diamondbacks manager Torey Lovullo was on the hot seat. Now, he’s in the National League Championship Series. In 2021, the Diamondbacks had a 52-110 record, 55 games behind NL West Division champion Los Angeles. This year, an 84-78 mark was 16 games behind the…
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