Tag: Central bank

Almost every airline around the world has felt the impact of surging jet fuel crises while many did not survive the spike caused by the U.S.-Israeli strike on Iran. Mexican holiday carrier Magnicharters, British cargo carrier European Cargo and Swiss regional airline Air Mountain are among the …

Robert Kiyosaki has been sounding the same alarm for years. He thinks markets are sitting on borrowed time, that debt has hollowed out the financial system, and that ordinary investors are heading for a reckoning they had fair warning about. Plenty of people have tuned it out…

Europe’s central banks may come under political pressure, Panetta says

The pizza restaurant industry has been downsizing this year, with major chains closing hundreds of underperforming locations. Mountain Mike’s Pizza chain has been a contrarian over the last two years, adding dozens of new locations. The expansion mode, however, hasn’t prevented one of its …

What are the implications of a K-shaped economy?

Expanded deductions for older Americans are changing the tax-planning equation for retirees, according to Jeffrey Levine, chief planning officer at Focus Partners Wealth. In an interview as part of the Focus on Finance Forum series, Levine explained that many retirees may now qualify for the 0% …

Gold prices seemed to be mounting a comeback, but JPMorgan just made the rally harder to trust. Investors expected the shiny yellow metal to continue pushing higher into year’s end, buoyed by rate-cut hopes, central-bank buying, and safe-haven demand. Reuters reported that spot gold was up over 2% …

Delta Air Lines (DAL) is set to provide investors with their first major hint as to whether higher airfares are still holding. That’s important since airline stocks have been squeezed by two competing pressures in 2026. Unpredictable fuel prices have offset strong travel demand. Now Bank of America …

Three months ago, Goldman Sachs was warning clients that the U.S. economy had a one-in-four chance of tipping into recession. The bank just cut that number by 10 percentage points, and the reason has nothing to do with anything the Federal Reserve did. Goldman Sachs chief economist Jan Hatzius …

World Bank to end China lending by 2031, FT reports