House passes budget resolution, Congress moves toward tax bill draft
America’s Credit Unions April 11, 2025 The House passed its budget resolution 216-214 Thursday morning, following Senate passage last week. The budget resolution is a framework for the federal budget, setting spending and revenue targets, and House passage means Congress can now officially work on its budget reconciliation legislation. The House Ways and Means Committee […]
Bill Ackman Calls Out Triple-Levered ETFs, Zero-Day Options Boom
Summary by Bloomberg AI Bill Ackman criticized the use of highly-leveraged exchange-traded funds and zero-day stock contracts, questioning their contribution to society and the economy. Levered funds, which allow investors to magnify their exposure to an underlying asset or index, command around $100 billion and have been popular among day traders. Ackman warned that the […]
Trump administration backs off Nvidia’s H20 chip crackdown after Mar-a-Lago dinner, NPR reports
By Reuters April 9, 20251:04 PM PDT Updated 4 hours ago April 9 (Reuters) – The Trump administration has reversed course on plans to restrict exports of Nvidia’s H20 artificial intelligence chips to China after CEO Jensen Huang attended a Mar-a-Lago dinner last week, NPR reported on Wednesday. The planned American export controls on the chips — […]
Goldman Sachs Rescinds Recession Call After Trump’s Tariff Pause
By Matthew Boesler 04/09/2025 11:43 (Bloomberg) — Goldman Sachs Group Inc. economists rescinded their forecast for a US recession after President Donald Trump announced a 90-day pause on most of his previously-announced tariffs. “Earlier today, before President Trump’s announcement, we had shifted to a recession baseline in response to the additional country-specific tariffs that went into effect this morning,” […]
‘Keep your head’ if you’re spooked by tariffs: Warren Buffett once suggested reading a 19th century poem when stocks fall
David A. Grogan CNBC April 3rd, 2025 Stock prices fell sharply on Thursday after President Donald Trump the day before announced sweeping tariffs of 10% on all U.S. trading partners and higher levies on countries with which the U.S. has a trade deficit. With Thursday’s decline, the S&P 500 — a proxy for the broad […]
‘Liberation Day’ Not a Clearing Event: Morgan Stanley’s Wilson
Mike Wilson, chief US equity strategist at Morgan Stanley, sees the possibility of reciprocal tariffs due this week from President Donald Trump pushing the S&P 500 below 5,500 in the short term, but is “not willing to throw in the towel yet on the full year” target. Watch the full story here.
JPMorgan says recession fears are not to blame for the sell-off, points to another culprit
CNBC Fred Imbert March 13, 2025 Fears of an economic recession have been cited as a catalyst for the stock market’s horrid run this week. JPMorgan thinks something else may be driving the downturn. “In our mind the most likely culprits are equity hedge funds and in particular two categories: Equity Quant hedge funds and […]
The ‘Spy Sheikh’ Taking the AI World by Storm
Abu Dhabi’s Tahnoon bin Zayed al Nahyan has more than $1.5 trillion to spend and he’s in a hurry; grappling with Mark Zuckerberg. The Abu Dhabi royal sometimes called “the spy sheikh” is accustomed to using his vast wealth to master his many obsessions, which have ranged over the years from martial arts to chess […]
Senate GOP’s Tax-Cut Wishlist Heads North of $5 Trillion
By Richard Rubin Updated March 12, 2025 WASHINGTON—Senate Republicans are planning tax reductions that go well beyond an extension of President Trump’s expiring tax cuts. On the menu: Reviving lapsed business tax breaks, expanding the child tax credit, loosening the cap on the state and local tax deduction and incorporating Trump’s ideas for eliminating taxes […]
What to Know About ‘Stargate,’ OpenAI’s New Venture Announced by President Trump
By Billy Perrigo January 22, 2025 President Donald Trump on Tuesday announced a $500 billion joint venture between OpenAI, Softbank, MGX and Oracle to build new datacenters to power the next wave of artificial intelligence (AI) – in an early signal that his Administration would embrace the technology. The plans, which predate the Trump Administration […]