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The AI boom isn't going anywhere

The longer the boom can keep carrying the economy, the more it can offset other structural changes.

Axios

Fed Rate Cut: How Will It Lower Your Credit Card and Mortgage Payments?

Jerome Powell's 29 Oct Fed rate cut drops benchmark to 3.75%-4% – explore credit card APR lower, mortgage rates drop, savings yield decline impacts on auto loans, student debt amid inflation

International Business Times UK

Fed cuts key rate yet Powell says future reductions are not locked in

Euronews

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Asian shares, oil prices fall back following Trump's meeting with Chinese leader Xi

Asian shares have retreated after President Donald Trump's meeting with Chinese leader Xi Jinping

The Independent UK

Bitcoin, Ethereum dip after Fed chair hints that 25-point rate cut may be last of 2025

The total market capitalization of all cryptocurrencies dropped 1.8% on Wednesday.

Fortune

Bitcoin, Ethereum, XRP, Dogecoin Dip As Fed Chair Powell Pours Cold Water On December Rate Cut Hopes: Analyst Says Watch Out For These Key BTC Levels

Leading cryptocurrencies fell alongside major stock indexes on Wednesday as Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said that a year-end interest rate cut is “not a foregone conclusion.”

Benzinga

Stocks Slide As Powell Cools Rate-Cut Hopes: These 15 Stocks Are Feeling The Pinch

Stocks sold off late Wednesday after Fed Chair Jerome Powell pushed back on expectations for another interest rate cut in December, warning that such a move is "far from a foregone conclusion” as the Federal Open Market Committee remains divided and incoming data remains clouded by shutdown-related gaps.

Benzinga

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Powell says that, unlike the dotcom boom, AI spending isn’t a bubble: ‘I won’t go into particular names, but they actually have earnings’

However, the Fed chair noted that the growth is unevenly distributed and concentrated among only a few companies.

Fortune

Dow, S&P 500 Slip on December Rate Cut Worries, Nvidia Boosts Nasdaq: Stock Market Today

Nvidia became the first company ever to boast a $5 trillion market cap, but it wasn't enough to lift the Dow and the S&P 500.

Kiplinger

Rocket Companies (RKT) Stock Is Sliding Wednesday: What's Going On?

Rocket Companies Inc (NYSE:RKT) shares are trading lower on Wednesday afternoon, caught in a broader market sell-off fueled by comments from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell. Here’s what investors need to know.

Benzinga

Powell Cools Hopes For December Rate Cut: 'Far From A Foregone Conclusion'

Fed Chair Jerome Powell threw cold water on investor hopes for another interest rate cut in December, stressing that the Federal Open Market Committee remains deeply divided and that the road ahead is clouded by data gaps and conflicting risks between the central bank’s objectives.

Benzinga

Powell warns not to count on a December rate cut just yet—the Fed is extremely divided, and a further cut is ‘not a foregone conclusion. Far from it’

The Fed will stop shrinking its $7 trillion balance sheet in December, but Powell stressed it’s a pause in quantitative tightening, rather than a new phase of easing.

Fortune

Fed cuts rates again but throws cold water on a December rate cut

The move comes as the ongoing government shutdown restricts the release of critical economic data.

Axios

Powell cuts rates in the dark in historic move, with no jobs data and Trump heckling from abroad

For the first time in modern history, the Fed cut rates without jobs data, acting amid a government shutdown, rising unemployment, and open pressure from the president, who wants Powell gone.

Fortune

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The Guardian - US

Fed cuts interest rates for second time this year amid economic uncertainty

Central bank sets rates at range between 3.75% and 4% amid turbulence from government shutdown and Trump’s tariffs

Fortune

You can expect a 25 bps cut from the Fed, says Wall Street, but little economic insight from Powell—after all, he doesn’t have much to go on

“Chair Powell’s press conference will pivot away from economic data—given its scarcity—and instead focus on balance sheet policy, the policy framework review, and financial stability,” Deutsche Bank says.

Fortune

Wall Street is in a risk-on mood as it waits for Powell to deliver on the ‘Fed put’

“Earlier this month, markets shifted more towards a ‘central bank put’ regime,” Christian Mueller-Glissmann at Goldman Sachs wrote in a note to clients.

Fortune

Everyone thinks AI is replacing factory workers, but Amazon’s layoffs show it’s coming for middle management first

As Amazon slashes 14,000 white-collar roles and the U.S. approaches a million job cuts this year, AI’s first major labor casualty might be emerging.

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Barchart

Stock Index Futures Gain on Nvidia Boost Ahead of Fed Rate Decision and Big Tech Earnings

December S&P 500 E-Mini futures (ESZ25) are up +0.19%, and December Nasdaq 100 E-Mini futures (NQZ25) are up +0.35% this morning, buoyed by ongoing tech and AI momentum, while investors await the Federal Reserve’s interest rate decision and U.S. megacap tech earnings.

Barchart

What Treats (or Tricks) Will the Fed Hand Out Wednesday?

The Fed fund futures forward curve lays out a couple possibilities for Wednesday's interest rate announcement, with the most logical another rate cut.

Benzinga

A Fed Rate Cut Is Done Deal–But Powell's Words Could Spark The Meltup

The markets have already celebrated the Fed's next move — now they want a new reason to keep the party going.

The Conversation

Fed struggles to assess state of US economy as government shutdown shuts off key data

When it comes to setting monetary policy for the world’s largest economy, what data drives decision-making?

The Independent UK

Federal Reserve to cut key rate Wednesday, may signal another cut to follow

The Federal Reserve will almost certainly cut its key interest rate on Wednesday and could signal it expects another cut in December as the central bank seeks to bolster hiring

Axios

What to know about Trump's finalists to replace Powell as Fed chair

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said he expects a selection to be made before year's end.

The Conversation

Trump’s ‘golden age’ economic message undercut by his desire for much lower interest rates – which typically signal a weak jobs market

President Donald Trump seems to want to have it both ways on the U.S. economy.

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