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Central bank holds rates even as investors worry Iran war will ignite jolt of price growth
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Shandong-based Innolight supplies data centre equipment to American and Chinese tech groups
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Eli Lilly, AbbVie and Danaher Corporation are among the bank's top picks for stocks in the sector.
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A divided Fed holds interest rates steady despite stubborn inflation The Washington PostAnalysis: Fed Chairman Warsh's credibility in question after leaving interest rates unchanged CNBCTranscript: Fed holds rates as inflation fears grow Financial Times
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Sen. Paul says there's a "very real chance" Fauci could be prosecuted after taking the 5th in Senate hearing CBS NewsOpinion | What We Really Learned From the Fauci Hearing The New York TimesFauci's refusals put spotlight on ‘pleading the Fifth' right in US South China Morning PostWhat Anthony Fauci Didn't Say The AtlanticRand Paul threatens to hold
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Wall Street closes down sharply after Fed holds rates unchanged ReutersDow drops 1,100 points for worst day since April 2025 on fear the Fed is falling behind on inflation: Live updates CNBCU.S. Stocks Slide After Fed Pause, Escalation in Iran War WSJStock market today: Dow plunges by 1,100 points, S&P 500 and Nasdaq sink as yields rise on Fed's hawkish hold Yahoo Finance
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Gundlach said the divergent moves across the Treasury curve showed investors' skepticism that the Fed will ultimately follow through.
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Individual investors just recorded "their largest net selling of single stocks since the COVID crash," according to Vanda Research.
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Fed officials held interest rates steady, but they have splintered over how to fight inflation.
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Decline could erode ability to supply Asian and European markets dependent on supplies from the Middle East
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Attacks on ships in the Strait of Hormuz and the Bab al-Mandab strait are disrupting the passage of oil tankers in the Persian Gulf and the Red Sea.
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Kevin M. Warsh, who will preside over his second meeting as chairman of the central bank, faces pressure to raise interest rates as inflation remains elevated.
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Starbucks posted its fourth straight quarter of same-store sales growth, as it continues a turnaround under CEO Brian Niccol.
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Situational Awareness joins UK investor Baillie Gifford backing the South Korean memory maker's American debut
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Mental "scars" reinforce fears of stagflation, when rising prices coincide with declining growth, research finds.
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Short positions rise sharply as traders eye economic fallout from Iran war
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The economic banishment of all things Russian. Tariffs on Chinese imports. Pandemic-caused shortages of computer chips, bicycles, garage door parts and other imports. Brexit.
Just about everywhere you turn, you can see that the tectonic plates of the global economy have stopped converging and are starting to pull apart in ways that will determine new winners and losers, says Ethan Harris, head of global economics for Bank of America Securities. "Deglobalization is a gradual process, and in the long run, very important" to investors, he says, because it will have profound impacts on corporate profitability.
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Globalization refers to the increase of commerce across borders. U.S. companies prospered for decades as new markets opened for their goods and labor costs plummeted thanks to overseas production. Strategists at BofA have estimated that over the past 20 years, globalization has contributed more than half of what has been a robust expansion in profit margins. Globalization has also helped to deliver low-cost goods to American consumers.
But now, says market strategist Ed Yardeni, the pandemic and spreading political and military conflicts have stretched supply chains past the breaking point, prompting companies to bring many operations closer to home. "Deglobalization was almost inevitable," Yardeni says. U.S. companies are starting to "reshore" production back to the U.S., "near-shore" it to neighbors such as Mexico, or "friend-shore" it to allies such as Vietnam.
Investment firm Piper Sandler counted more than 900 announcements of companies either building or expanding manufacturing facilities in the U.S. in the 12 months ending in May of 2022. In 2012, there were only about 100 such announcements. Over the long term, companies
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