Analysis-U.S. crypto lobbyists court Democrats in fresh legislative push
By Michelle Price WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Embattled by a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) crackdown, crypto companies are making a renewed push on Capitol Hill to drum up support for legislation…
Analysis-U.S. has no appetite to intervene on behalf of falling pound, yen
By David Lawder WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The financial turmoil emanating from Britain and Japan is not yet enough to prompt the U.S. Treasury to intervene to buoy the battered pound or yen,…
Analysis-U.S. midterm elections may add more risk to shaky stock market
By Lewis Krauskopf NEW YORK (Reuters) – Another source of potential stock market volatility looms in an already tough year for Wall Street: an approaching midterm U.S. elections that will determine which…
Analysis-U.S. ban on Nvidia, AMD chips seen boosting Chinese rivals
By Jane Lanhee Lee and Stephen Nellis SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – The U.S. ban on exports to China of Nvidia and AMD’s flagship artificial intelligence chips will create new business opportunities for domestic startups…
Analysis-U.S. stocks’ bear market growl could beckon recession
By Lewis Krauskopf NEW YORK – The bear market in U.S. stocks could be a prelude to even tougher times to come: a market swoon has often come hand-in-hand with recession. Worries…
Analysis-U.S. coal companies struggle to cash in on Europe crunch
By Timothy Gardner WASHINGTON – U.S. coal producers are seeking to boost exports to cash in on soaring prices since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine but face big headwinds including shipping bottlenecks, labor…
Analysis-U.S. real rates up on hawkish Fed but inflation risk looms
By Davide Barbuscia NEW YORK – A jump in U.S. real yields back into positive territory is a sign that a hawkish Federal Reserve is succeeding in tightening some financial conditions, but…
Analysis-U.S. bond investors worry deep slide will end 40-year bull market
By David Randall NEW YORK – The 40-year bull market in U.S. bonds is dead. Long live the bond bull market. The U.S. Treasuries market began 2022 with one of its biggest…
Analysis-U.S. strategic oil sale speeds fuel-price fix, but at what cost?
By Timothy Gardner, Julia Payne and Ahmad Ghaddar (Reuters) – The Biden administration is selling a record amount of emergency oil from national reserves to tame soaring U.S. fuel prices as quickly…
Analysis-U.S. and allies may find tapping stockpiles inadequate to plug Russian oil gap
By Noah Browning and Timothy Gardner LONDON/WASHINGTON – Top oil consuming nations may find that one of their main tools to fight high global oil prices – the release of strategic stockpiles…
Analysis-U.S. credit ‘relief’ rally could be short-lived as Fed rate risk looms
By Davide Barbuscia NEW YORK – U.S. credit markets saw some respite after the Federal Reserve hiked interest rates last week, but the relief is expected to be short-lived as uncertainty around…
Analysis-U.S. can expect ‘a flood of plea deals’ in Capitol attack cases after guilty verdict
By Jan Wolfe WASHINGTON – Prosecutors can expect a wave of guilty pleas from some of the hundreds of people charged with joining the assault on the U.S. Capitol, after the first…
Analysis-U.S. House panel’s push for Trump criminal charges may fall flat
By Jan Wolfe WASHINGTON – Former President Donald Trump appears unlikely to face federal criminal charges for his efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss despite a U.S. congressional committee’s court filing…
Analysis-U.S., allies united if Russia invades, at odds over other scenarios
By Andrea Shalal and Robin Emmott WASHINGTON/BRUSSELS – The United States and its allies have mapped out detailed plans for coordinated, severe sanctions if Russian troops physically invade Ukraine, but how they…
Analysis-U.S. Congress may squawk over a new Iran deal but is unlikely to block it
By Patricia Zengerle and Arshad Mohammed WASHINGTON – Despite threats from nearly three dozen Republican senators to thwart a revived Iran nuclear deal and the misgivings of some top Democrats, there is…
Analysis-U.S. yield curve prices for Fed tightening, shows fears of policy error
By Karen Brettell NEW YORK – A dramatic flattening in key parts of the U.S. Treasury yield curve is reflecting worries that the Federal Reserve has been too slow to raise interest…
Analysis-U.S. Supreme Court’s Alabama ruling signals new threat to voting rights law
By Andrew Chung and Lawrence Hurley WASHINGTON – When three federal judges last month blocked Alabama’s new Republican-backed map of U.S. congressional districts as likely discriminatory against Black voters, they said they…
Analysis-U.S. IPO slowdown slams door on tech unicorns looking to cash out
By Echo Wang NEW YORK – The party is over for technology start-ups rushing to go public at ever-higher valuations, as volatile U.S. stock markets have dampened investor appetite for high-growth stocks.…
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