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Bloomberg's Joe Weisenthal and Tracy Alloway explore the most interesting topics in finance, markets

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It’s Fed Day, and while everyone expects the central bank to cut benchmark interest rates, the key q

15 years ago was a pivotal moment for financial media. On the one hand, we were in the midst of a hu

Financial institutions have been a leading target for cyber crime since the dawn of the internet. Bu

This week, former European Central Bank President and Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi published

One of the big buzzwords over the last year or so has been "overcapacity." There's a constant line o

One of the rare areas of bipartisan consensus in the US right now, is on the need to change our trad

Pretty much since the moment that cryptocurrencies came into existence, there's been a chorus of ske

One of the problems in investing or trading is that — to use a common disclaimer — past results are

There's been a lot of talk about private credit in recent years. The market has exploded in size, an

Last week at Jackson Hole, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell delivered a short and powerful speech

Remember August 5th? That was the day that markets around the world plunged in historic fashion and

When the Treasury market broke in March 2020, the Federal Reserve intervened in extraordinary fashio

At Jackson Hole, Fed Chairman Jerome Powell gave a clear signal that the rate cut cycle is likely to

This year’s Economic Symposium in Jackson Hole, Wyoming marked a big change for US monetary policy,

Every year, the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City hosts an economic symposium in Jackson Hole, Wyo

Synthetic risk transfers, in which banks purchase insurance-like protection on some of their loans,

Political prediction markets — where traders can make bets on election outcomes — have been around f

The Federal Reserve appears to be ready to pivot into rate cutting mode. Inflation has come down sig

The past few years have thrown up a number of potential weaknesses in the American economy. There've

When it comes to financing the US government's borrowing needs, the Treasury Department has some dis