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Stocks Rebound After Fed Signals Interest Rates Will Remain Low Last Updated This briefing has ended. Follow our latest coverage of -0:00 Federal Reserve Will Keep Rates Near Zero The Federal Reserve Chair, Jerome H. Powell, said on Wednesday that he expects the economy to continue improving this year but plans to keep interest rates near zero until employment increases. Today, the FOMC kept interest rates near zero and maintained our sizable asset purchases. These measures, along with our strong guidance on interest rates, and on our balance sheet, will ensure that monetary policy will cont...

S&P 500 Hits Record as Optimism About Economy Rises Last Updated This briefing has ended. Follow our latest coverage of By: Ella Koeze·Data delayed at least 15 minutes·Source: FactSet Wall Street’s rally stretched into a third day on Thursday, with the S&P 500 reaching a record high, as investors stopped worrying about inflation and rising interest rates and focused instead on what looks to be an increasingly peppy economic recovery. The S&P 500 rose 1 percent, climbing above its Feb. 12 closing high, while the technology-heavy Nasdaq composite jumped more than 2.5 percent, amid encour...

All the city news you can use. By Jeff Wood - Mar 6th, 2021 04:24 pm //end headline wrapper ?> Evanston, IL. (Public Domain). Every day at The Overhead Wire we sort through over 1,500 news items about cities and share the best ones with our email list. At the end of the week, we take some of the most popular stories and share them with Urban Milwaukee readers. They are national (or international) links, sometimes entertaining and sometimes absurd, but hopefully useful. Buttigieg’s ‘fix it first’ infrastructure approach: Newly minted Transportation Secreta...

One German city is working to make its streets less welcoming to drivers — even those with electric vehicles. Buttigieg’s top priority at the Department of Transportation is addressing a maintenance backlog. The role dollar stores are playing in rural retail. Heidelberg’s move toward a car-less city: The German city of Heidelberg is going beyond the current mantra of electric cars for climate goals and focusing on creating an environment conducive to active transport. The mayor, Eckart Wuerzner, says he’d like Heidelberg to be completely car free, and aims to do that in part with an e...

Be careful what you wish for. The people who showed up at the polls and voted to leave the EU did not understand the true implications of their vote, it seems. As the reality of Brexit come into focus, however, they are beginning to understand how dependent they were on free trade.