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Bloomberg “Fed's Kashkari Says Flatter Yield Curve Helped Motivate Dissent.” Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis President Neel Kashkari said low inflation, continued weakness in wages and a flattening yield curve motivated his dissent last week aga...

Bloomberg “Fed 2018 Dots in Focus for Yellen Finale: Decision Day Guide.” As investors await 2018 direction from Federal Reserve chairman nominee Jerome Powell, they will get one last chance to hear Janet Yellen’s take on the U.S. economy. If all...

Bloomberg “U.S. Stocks Are Having One of the Best Years in Half a Century.” Rarely in the last half century have the stars been so aligned for U.S. stocks. The collapse in volatility and mid-year slump in bond yields has helped investors earn the t...

Bloomberg “Wall Street Has No Idea What's Going to Happen to Credit Markets in 2018.” It’s the season for investment banks to try to predict the future in credit markets. The ritual is trickier than usual this time. Rarely have they been so divide...

Bloomberg “BlackRock and Vanguard Are Less Than a Decade Away From Managing $20 Trillion.” Imagine a world in which two asset managers call the shots, in which their wealth exceeds current U.S. GDP and where almost every hedge fund, government and r...

Bloomberg “Japan's Economy Is Still Outrunning Its Potential Growth Rate.” Japan’s economy is on track to close out the year expanding faster than its potential growth rate, even after recent soft readings for consumption and inflation. Global de...

Bloomberg “Ex-JPMorgan Traders Start Singapore Currency Options Quant Fund.” Two former JPMorgan Chase & Co. foreign-exchange option traders will start a quantitative hedge fund in January, using artificial intelligence to trade currency options. A...

Bloomberg “Canada's Debt Problem Gets Helping Hand From Economic Boom.” There are two things that could impede Bank of Canada Governor Stephen Poloz from raising interest rates further in the coming months: worries about the financial system’s abi...

Bloomberg “Putin Sees ‘Real Chance’ to End Syria War at Talks With Iran and Turkey.” Russian President Vladimir Putin said there’s a “real chance” to end the 6 1/2 year civil war in Syria as he met his counterparts from Iran and Turkey see...

Bloomberg “The Business Tax Problem Causing Trouble for the GOP.” The Senate tax plan encountered its first outright Republican opposition this week, from a senator whose concerns might foreshadow the biggest business challenge ahead for the proposa...