World shares were mostly lower on Monday after U.S. stocks edged back from their all-time high, with many Asian markets closed for holidays. In early European trading, Germany's DAX dropped 1.1% to 21,

The Fed's interest-rate-cutting cycle is likely over after the December jobs report, BofA says.

Donald Trump is expected to elevate Michelle Bowman, a fifth-generation community banker and current Fed governor, as the government’s most influential banking regulator.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 140.82 points, or 0.32%, to 44,424.25, the S&P 500 lost 17.47 points, or 0.29%, to 6,101.24 and the Nasdaq Composite lost 99.38 points, or 0.50%, to 19,954.30.

Wall Street’s main indexes closed higher on Tuesday, with the S&P 500 and the Dow hitting their highest in more than a month, as investors assessed Donald Trump’s first actions as president and breathed relief that he did not start his second term with blanket tariff increases.

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US stocks surged higher Wednesday after an encouraging inflation report and blockbuster profits for some of America’s biggest banks.

US equities were poised to end the first week of Donald Trump’s second term higher, checked by the outlook for rates and earnings.

Emboldened by a friendlier incoming Trump administration and their success last year in weakening draft capital hikes, big U.S. banks plan to push to overhaul other U.S. capital rules, according to industry executives.

A key measure of consumer prices rose less than expected in December, perhaps calming at least temporarily fresh worries about a recent rebound in inflation. An uptick in inflation since the end of su

Trump’s executive action “doesn’t have the same force as law, and the creation of those offices was established under the law in Dodd-Frank,” Van Tol said. “If they did indeed shut down access to the websites in response to the executive order, that would be troubling and potentially legally problematic.”

Existing home sales climbed 2.2% in December to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 4.24 million, according to the National Association of Realtors, the strongest pace since February 2024. Economists polled by Bloomberg expected existing home sales to hit a pace of 4.2 million in December.