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Fed minutes flag Treasury-market leverage as a risk to financial stability

Officials on the Federal Open Market Committee saw a number of vulnerabilities to the financial system worth monitoring as of last month, one of which has to do with the use of leverage in the Treasury market.

Snowflake’s stock falls despite earnings beat and guidance boost

The company says AI products are seeing initial traction.

Stocks and bonds are sending conflicting messages about where economy is heading next

Equity investors appear to have moved past the “growth scare” fears that helped to inspire the summertime bust-up that nearly landed the S&P 500 in correction territory earlier this month.

Bond ETFs rise after revised jobs data but ‘everybody is waiting for Powell’

The U.S. bond market was rising Wednesday, as investors assessed revisions to labor-market data and looked ahead to Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell’s Jackson Hole speech Friday. 

Cost of shorting Carl Icahn company’s stock has spiked since billionaire’s SEC settlement

Borrowing rates for investors seeking to short Icahn Enterprises. have spiked more than fivefold, to above 25%, since the company and its founder and majority shareholder Carl Icahn agreed to pay $2 million to settle regulatory charges this week.

Homes are most overvalued in these 5 metro areas. But the housing market is showing ‘early signs of a correction.’

As home prices have continued to march relentlessly higher, home buyers could soon get a break, a new report says.

Macy’s results disappoint Wall Street, but executives see ‘light at the end of the tunnel’

Shares of Macy’s Inc. slid on Wednesday after the department-store chain cut its outlook and said that consumers were still skittish. Positives were hard to find, but management tried their best to highlight some.

First he lost $1,600 to fishy Zelle payments, then he couldn’t get off the payment platform. ‘This kind of stuff should not happen.’

Banks say their customers love Zelle, but lawmakers say Zelle doesn’t do enough to protect users who lose money to scams.

Fed set to cut interest rates in September, FOMC minutes show, as some officials even favored a July move

Most top Federal Reserve officials believed they should cut interest rates in September if inflation continued to slow and the labor market got any weaker.

B. Riley’s stock rallies on report of unit sale to Oaktree

Shares up 33% as report surfaces of deal for two businesses housed in its Great American Group

So your college-bound kid is clueless about money: 5 tips to prepare them

College students today can find plenty of personal-finance tips online, but they might not know what information is trustworthy.

A favored recession signal appears to be broken. Here’s what could change that.

The bond market is flashing a recession signal for a record period. But is it really broken?
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