- Powell indicates further, smaller rate cuts, insists the Fed is ‘not on any preset course’
- Key Fed inflation gauge at 2.2% in August, lower than expected
- Swiss central bank cuts rates by a quarter point in third trim this year
- September consumer confidence falls the most in three years
- Britain’s finance minister calls for spending discipline but no return to austerity
- Biden administration doubles down on tough asylum restrictions at border
- Education Dept. extends deadline for defaulted student loan borrowers to get current
- Trump to speak, hand out supplies in Georgia as Hurricane Helene fallout gets political
- Iran’s response to Israel will be a choice between revenge and survival. Markets say it’s choosing survival
- U.S. East Coast port strike looms Tuesday with no talks scheduled
