Deposit account rates are on the decline — but the good news is you can lock in a competitive return on a certificate of deposit (CD) today and preserve your earning power. In fact, the best CDs still pay rates above 4%. Read on for a snapshot of CD rates today and where to find the best offers. Where are the best CD rates today? CDs today typically offer rates significantly higher than traditional savings accounts. Currently, the best short-term CDs (six to 12 months) generally offer rates around 4% to ...

Gold is on track for its second-best performance in the last 50 years, trailing only the 1979 rally. After nearly three quarters, the yellow metal is up over 43%, as investors hedge against geopolitical and monetary risks.“If we really go to an overt fiscally dominant era where monetary policy is just looser than it otherwise should be, then you get the dollar losing some of its reserve status and then gold and bitcoin are on the other side of that trade,” Jurrien Timmer, Director of Global Macro at Fidelit ...

The view from the rooftop pool of the Marina Bay Sands resort hotel, which overlooks the financial district skyline of Singapore.Singapore's core inflation — which strips out prices of private transport and accommodation — posted its softest rise since February 2021, coming in at 0.3% for August as services inflation softened.This was lower than the 0.4% expected by economists polled by Reuters, and lower than the 0.5% seen in the month before.Headline inflation in Singapore came in at 0.5%, down from the 0 ...

NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stock indexes slipped on Tuesday as Wall Street took a pause from its relentless rally. The S&P 500 dipped 0.6%. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 88 points, or 0.2%, and the Nasdaq composite sank 0.9%. It’s the first pullback for the indexes after the trio set all-time highs in each of the last three days. Since surging from a bottom in April, the broad U.S. stock market has been facing criticism that it’s shot too high, too fast and become too expensive. Even the head of the ...

September 22, 2025 04:01 AM GMT US Equity Strategy | North America Weekly Warm-up: Will the Fed Catch-Up to the Markets' Demands Fast Enough? Positive operating leverage, falling wage costs, pent up demand and inflecting EPS revisions suggest the recession that some are now fearing is already behind us. The question now is whether the Fed transitions fast enough given what markets expect and/ or need for this new bull market to continue. M Idea Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC Michael J Wilson Equity Strategist M.W ...

V i e w p o i n t | 18 Sep 2025 12:43:53 ET │ 30 pages Global Economics Global Indicators August Chartbook: The World in Pictures CITI'S TAKE Our global indicators chartbook highlights ongoing resilience in Q3. The global services PMI in August was running above its solid average of the last few years, and the global manufacturing PMI posted its highest reading in over a year. Retail sales have also been surprising to the upside in the US and have held up well globally as well. Global exports meanwhile have ...

Leading coins diverged from stocks on Monday as ‘Fear’ sentiment gripped the cryptocurrency market.CryptocurrencyGains +/-Price (Recorded at 9:10 p.m. ET)Bitcoin BTC/USD-1.69%$112,511.87Ethereum ETH/USD               -3.51%$4,189.92XRP XRP/USD                         -2.61%$2.84Solana SOL/USD                         -6.08%$219.44Dogecoin DOGE/USD                         -3.95%$0.2405Crypto Liquidations Hit $1.5 BillionBitcoin fell below $113,000 and spent the rest of the day in the $112,000 region. Bitcoin ...

By Chibuike Oguh and Canan Sevgili NEW YORK/LONDON (Reuters) -The U.S. dollar held steady against major peers on Tuesday as investors weighed commentary from Federal Reserve officials including Chair Jerome Powell, while the Swedish krona gained after the Riksbank delivered a hawkish 25-basis-point rate cut. The dollar was down 0.11% at 0.791 against the Swiss franc The euro was up slightly by 0.08% at $1.1812 while sterling was flat at $1.3517. Powell said the central bank needed to continue balancing ...

克利夫兰联储主席哈马克表示，她仍将高度关注通胀问题，官员们在考虑降息时应保持谨慎，以免导致 经济过热。哈马克表示，尽管近期就业增长有所放缓，但仍有迹象表明劳动力市场依然强劲，比如裁员 数量较少以及失业率较低。同时，她指出，通胀率已超过美联储 2%的目标水平超过四年之久，而且可 能还要再过几年才会回到美联储的目标水平。 哈马克周一说道："我认为，在取消货币政策限制方面我们应当格外谨慎。令我担忧的是，如果我们将 这种限制从经济中取消掉，可能会导致经济再度过热。" 美联储官员正在讨论今年进一步降低借贷成本的幅度。上周他们已将利率下调了25个基点，这是自去年 12 月以来的首次降息。一些政策制定者开始对劳动力市场面临的日益加剧的风险感到更为担忧，而另 一些人则主要担心高于目标水平的通胀可能会因关税及其他政策而进一步上升。 哈马克表示，在上周降息之后，相关政策的限制性程度"仅算轻微"。这样一来，利率距离中性水平仅有 一小段距离，既不会刺激经济增长，也不会抑制经济增长。 她说道："我觉得劳工方面的情况还算不错，但我真的很担心通货膨胀方面的情况。" 哈马克本月早些时候表示，鉴于通胀率高于美联储设定的 2% 的目标水平，且有 ...

US stock futures were little changed on Tuesday after another record-setting day on Wall Street. Contracts on the Dow Jones Industrial Average (YM=F), the S&P 500 (ES=F), and the tech-heavy Nasdaq 100 (NQ=F) all wobbled around the flat line. Stocks jumped on Monday to clinch a third straight day of record-high closes, lifted by high hopes the AI trade and further Federal Reserve interest-rate cuts will continue to fuel the rally. On the tech side, the Nasdaq Composite (^IXIC) led gains after Nvidia (NV ...