The Federal Open Market Committee increases the fed funds rate 25 basis points to a range 2 percent to 2.25 percent.
The supply outages in Iran combined with the decision by OPEC+ not to take further action to offset the declines pushed Brent to multi-year highs this week
The U.S. Federal Reserve is widely expected to raise interest rates on Wednesday, the latest step in a changing environment for monetary policy that has some stock investors on edge.
President Donald Trump told the U.N. General Assembly that OPEC is "ripping off the rest of the world" by pushing oil prices higher.
U.S. government debt yields rose on Monday after European Central Bank President Mario Draghi warned of a pick-up in underlying inflation.
Oil prices could rise towards $100 per barrel towards the end of the year or by early 2019 as sanctions against Iran bite, commodity merchants Trafigura and Mercuria said on Monday
If it holds, that 12 percentage point margin would suggest a "blue wave" large enough to switch control of not just the House but also the Senate.
All the big tech companies are taking on the smart home, but Amazon wowd the industry with an onslaught of new products,
The yield on the two-year Treasury note returned to 2008 highs Wednesday while the 10-year Treasury rate held north of 3 percent.
Saudi Arabia is now comfortable with Brent oil prices rising above $80 a barrel, at least in the short term, as the global market
Bond pros have been watching the data for clues as to whether China would dump Treasury securities to retaliate against U.S. tariffs,
China stock markets have tumbled more than 20 percent this year, but the market reaction has been overblown, said Catherine Cai, chairman of UBSs Greater China investment banking arm.
President Donald Trump will impose 10 percent tariffs on $200 billion worth of Chinese imports, and those duties will rise to 25 percent at the end of the year.
For the first time in a decade, Corporate America is steering more money into stock buybacks than investing in the future.
Yale economist and Nobel Prize winner Robert Shillers measure of long-term stock valuations is pointing to much weaker returns ahead.
