Food stamps are set to be paused on Nov. 1 because of the government shutdown. Some 42 million Americans will not receive benefits through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) until Congress approves new funding, according to federal officials, although some states have taken steps to intervene. Congress made money available for SNAP for October […]

Nvidia shares rose in premarket trading in New York after President Trump said he plans to “discuss Blackwells” during his upcoming face-to-face meeting with Chinese leader Xi Jinping at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum in South Korea on Thursday. “We’ll be speaking about Blackwells,” Trump told reporters, ahead of his meeting with Xi tomorrow. The president […]

Authored by Lau Vegys via InternationalMan.com, Jerome Powell, the Fed’s chairman, recently gave the clearest signal yet that the Federal Reserve’s so-called “quantitative tightening” is about to end. Speaking at the National Association for Business Economics conference in Philadelphia recently, Powell said: “Our long-stated plan is to stop balance sheet runoff when reserves are somewhat […]

President Trump told reporters that the U.S. and South Korea had “reached a deal on trade” during a dinner at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit hosted by South Korean President Lee Jae Myung. The announcement follows a series of major trade deals Trump has secured just this week on his Asia tour and sets the stage for […]

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