01:04 PM EDT, 07/09/2025 (MT Newswires) -- US equity indexes rose, with the Nasdaq Composite hitting a record high as Nvidia ( NVDA ) became the first publicly traded company in the world to hit $4 trillion in market capitalization. The Nasdaq was up 0.5% at 20,529.2 after hitting an all-time high of 20,645.41 earlier in the session. The S&P...

NEW YORK (Reuters) -Financial market participants have pushed out yet again the end date for the effort to shrink the size of the Federal Reserve's large balance sheet, the minutes of the U.S. central bank's June 17-18 policy meeting showed on Wednesday. The drawdown of the Fed's stock of bonds is now expected to stop in February when the balance...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday called on the Federal Reserve to lower the federal benchmark interest rate by at least 3 percentage points, renewing his call for the U.S. central bank to lower rates to help reduce the cost to service the nation's debt. Our Fed Rate is AT LEAST 3 Points too high. Too Late is...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Only a couple of officials at the Federal Reserve's June 17-18 meeting said they felt interest rates could fall as soon as this month, with most policymakers remaining worried to some degree about the inflationary pressure they expect to come from President Donald Trump's use of import taxes to reshape global trade. Trump has demanded immediate cuts, and...