S&P 500 dips in wake of Fed minutes
The S&P 500 ended modestly weaker, holding losses after minutes from the Federal Reserve's last meeting confirmed a potential near-term rate hike. Roselle Chen reports.
The S&P 500 ended modestly weaker, holding losses after minutes from the Federal Reserve's last meeting confirmed a potential near-term rate hike. Roselle Chen reports.
Illegal profits from forced labor worldwide have risen to the “obscene” amount of $236 billion per year, the U.N. labor agency reported Tuesday, with sexual exploitation to blame for three-fourths of the take from a business that deprives migrants of money they can send home, swipes jobs from legal workers, and allows the criminals behind it to dodge taxes. The International Labor Organization said the tally for 2021, the most recent year covered in the painstaking international study, marked an increase of 37%, or $64 billion, compared with its last estimate published a decade ago. Forced labor can encourage corruption, strengthen criminal networks and incentivize further exploitation, ILO said.
The Japanese yen tumbled on Tuesday after the central bank made the momentous, but widely anticipated, decision to end its negative interest rate policy, while the dollar rose ahead of the upcoming Federal Reserve decision on rates. In a historic shift from decades of massive monetary stimulus, the Bank of Japan (BOJ) ended eight years of negative interest rates and other remnants of unorthodox policy at the conclusion of a two-day monetary policy meeting. Still, the yen tumbled 0.8% and weakened past the level of 150 to the dollar after the news, as most investors had already priced in a change.
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Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/Getty/Apple TV+There are roughly 47,000—oh, wait, a new Netflix Original just dropped; make that 47,001—TV shows and movies coming out each week. At Obsessed, we consider it our social duty to help you see the best and skip the rest.We’ve already got a variety of in-depth, exclusive coverage on all of your streaming favorites and new releases, but sometimes what you’re looking for is a simple Do or Don’t. That’s why we created See/Skip, to te
Nvidia shares fall after the semiconductor company unveils its highly anticipated Blackwell chip, while Fusion Pharmaceuticals surges after reaching a deal to be acquired by AstraZeneca.Read the full ...