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Kevin Warsh introduced a new element to the Federal Open Market Committee’s (FOMC) fight against inflation.

Asian shares mostly rose early Tuesday, as the market mood turned positive from the overnight rally on Wall Street. Hong Kong's Hang Seng gained nearly 0.6% to 25,185.26, while the Shanghai Composite rose 0.4% to 3,964.45. Wall Street climbed to the edge of its all-time high Monday.

Stocks rose as oil futures tumbled due to hopes of a resumption in U.S.-Iran negotiations, causing a relief rally that pushed high-risk technology stocks to record highs.

A rally in tech stocks led stocks to a strong start to the week. The Nasdaq Composite index gained 2.3%, its best session since early August. Investors will be looking to see whether President Trump meets with Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian at the U.N. gathering beginning this week.

Almost everyone was expecting the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates this month. When the Fed raised interest rates for the first time in three years, from 3.75% to 4%, at the conclusion of the Federal Open Market Committee meeting last week, the move seemed a foregone conclusion. After all, the job market has been relatively stable, while the ongoing Iran war is just the latest fuel for the inflation fire.

The Nasdaq composite is poised to close at its first record since June after adding to gains in afternoon trading. The tech-heavy index was recently up 2.3% to 27121, which would be the highest close on record.

Stocks kicked off Monday's trading session in the green as investors optimistically looked to this week's United Nation General Assembly as an opportunity for an Iran resolution. The Nasdaq Composite popped 1%. "Stocks are coming off a second week of navigating multiple obstacles—high oil prices and yields, a rate hike, renewed concerns about AI risks—without suffering too much damage," Chris Larkin at E*TRADE from Morgan Stanley said.

US equity investors are expected to look out for Fed speak, purchasing managers' indexes, and Iran g

AI-linked stocks rose in the U.S. premarket and stocks rose across the globe as the continued fall in oil prices boosted market sentiment.

Trump’s Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) scoldings continue to fall on deaf ears.

Stocks have largely powered through a wall of worry this month, though rising bond yields, geopolitical risk in the Middle East, and AI jitters have given investors reason to pause

By Wayne Cole SYDNEY, Sept 21 (Reuters) - Share markets edged higher in Asia on Monday as AI's insatiable demand for data buoyed chipmakers, and oil eased as hopes Saudi Arabia could boost supplies

The Federal Reserve just raised interest rates for the first time in more than three years.

The Federal Reserve has undertaken six previous rate-hiking cycles since 1990, with each yielding highly predictable results for the stock market.

The stock market continues sideways, but with some optimistic moves that suggest the coming week could be a week of change

Investors are well aware of the risks, but they have simply decided none are significant enough to force them out of the market.

Global stocks were mixed Friday at the end of a week dominated by central bank moves to tame inflation as the yen retreated against the dollar despite a Bank of Japan interest rate hike.The Bank of Japan raised interest rates to a three-decade high, but the yen sank against the dollar on fears the pace of hikes might be slower than expected.

The Dow is down 2% this week. The Nasdaq is up. One of the indexes is reading the Fed policy wrong.

On Sept. 18, 2026, Netflix fell on a downgrade, and broader markets digested the possibility of further rate hikes.

By Amanda Cooper and Chibuike Oguh NEW YORK/LONDON, Sept 18 (Reuters) - Equities around the world fell while Treasury yields rose on Friday, as markets approached the end of a turbulent week marked by

If you want to know what's going on in the stock market any given day, the answer of late has overwhelmingly been: the bond market. The Nasdaq Composite was down 0.1%. All three major indexes were faring far better until bond yields and oil prices took a chunk out of stocks.

The stock market rebounded from solid losses weekly to turn mixed, with the Nasdaq leading a bullish move in a day two reaction to a hawkish Fed.

Sept 18 (Reuters) - The benchmark S&P 500 and the tech-heavy Nasdaq indexes opened slightly higher on Friday, while the Dow was flat as investors digested conflicting signals from lower oil prices and

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US equity futures were slightly higher pre-bell Friday as the major stock averages posted a rebound

S&P 500 and Nasdaq-100 futures edged higher Friday as tech stocks extended Thursday's rebound from the Fed's rate increase

The benchmark US stock measures were trending higher before the open Friday as investors continued t

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Sept 18 (Reuters) - Futures tracking the Nasdaq 100 led Wall Street higher on Friday, putting the tech-heavy index on course for weekly gains as a drop in oil prices tempered inflation concerns.

Amid a period of heightened interest-rate uncertainty, the central bank just offered investors a promising silver lining.