Mike, the New Jersey Pirate Kitty, Seeking a Furrrrrr-ever Home
NEWARK, N.J. — A three-month-old kitten named Mike, affectionately nicknamed “the mighty one-eyed pirate,” is seeking a permanent home after being rescued and placed in …
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Speaker Mike Johnson Announces Congressional J13 Taskforce
House Speaker Johnson Announces Investigation into Assassination Attempt on Former President Trump Washington, D.C. — House Speaker Mike Johnson has announced the formation of a …
Ret. General Mike Flynn Alleges Corruption and Whistleblower Involvement in DOJ Case
WASHINGTON, D.C. — General Mike Flynn has made significant allegations following Judge Aileen Cannon’s recent dismissal of charges against former President Donald Trump. Flynn’s statements …
NJ Transit Criticized by Mike Testa Amid Calls for Audit and Fare Hike Concerns
TRENTON, NJ—New Jersey State Senator Mike Testa took to Twitter to voice his strong dissatisfaction with the current state of NJ Transit, urging the Biden …
‘Mike, You Suck!’: Mike Johnson Fires Back At Rowdy Pro-Palestinian Protesters During University Speech
Republican Speaker Mike Johnson of Louisiana clapped back at pro-Palestinian protesters during a Wednesday speech at Columbia University. Columbia University President Nemat “Minouche” Shafik ordered …
Column-Searching for rift in Transatlantic easing :Mike Dolan
By Mike Dolan LONDON (Reuters) – After six months of churning interest rate speculation, few now doubt 2024 will see the three major Transatlantic central …
Column-Elections may tweak sequencing of 2024 rate cuts :Mike Dolan
By Mike Dolan LONDON (Reuters) – Few central bank watchers think the electoral cycle will change the course of monetary policy – but it could …
Speeding through ‘last mile’ of disinflation? :Mike Dolan
By Mike Dolan LONDON (Reuters) -What if the “last mile” is a breeze? Despite what seems like euphoria about disinflation and interest rate easing, it’s …
Bond quake sees doubling down on the shadows :Mike Dolan
By Mike Dolan LONDON (Reuters) -The expanding shadows of private credit seem an odd place to lurk if central banks’ ‘higher-for-longer’ mantra on interest rates …
Column-ECB starts shadow boxing with bond market :Mike Dolan
By Mike Dolan LONDON (Reuters) – European Central Bank (ECB) officials seem irked that they are not being taken seriously by markets – risking a …
Column-September sees Fed dot plot thicken :Mike Dolan
By Mike Dolan LONDON (Reuters) – Markets appear to have batted away next month’s Federal Reserve gathering as a paused ‘also ran’ meeting in favor …
Column-Shadow bank boxing as money funds drain deposits :Mike Dolan
By Mike Dolan LONDON (Reuters) – Cash-like money funds could increasingly suck deposits from smaller U.S. banks until lagging bank savings rates are finally forced …
Column-Dollar’s smile looks a little lopsided :Mike Dolan
By Mike Dolan LONDON (Reuters) – The dollar could do with some cheering up. According to the ‘dollar smile’ theory developed by currency expert and …
Column-QE sceptics fear Fed is in a hole :Mike Dolan
By Mike Dolan LONDON (Reuters) – If this month’s U.S. banking stress owes at least something to the Federal Reserve’s reduction of its mammoth balance …
Column-Fed’s ‘R-star’ becomes black hole :Mike Dolan
By Mike Dolan LONDON (Reuters) – After six weeks of frantic forecast changes, world markets seem to have lost the plot on where interest rates …
Rates market overshoot – or no man’s land? :Mike Dolan
By Mike Dolan LONDON (Reuters) -If skittish markets are just testing the extremes of possible central bank outcomes, policymakers who have bemoaned investor complacency for …
Watch the dollar for de-globalisation :Mike Dolan
By Mike Dolan LONDON (Reuters) -The end of modern globalisation may owe more to the fortunes of the U.S. dollar than Kremlinologists, Sinologists or military …
Column-Faced down by Fed, markets dab 6% onto risk radar :Mike Dolan
By Mike Dolan LONDON (Reuters) – Market pricing tends to swing back and forth like a pendulum around eventual outcomes – and investors may now …
Column-Low visibility, low volatility make strange pairing :Mike Dolan
By Mike Dolan LONDON (Reuters) – Like mirages on the horizon, recession forecasts seem to be appearing and disappearing with great regularity – questioning any …
Column-Jumping the central bank gun :Mike Dolan
By Mike Dolan LONDON (Reuters) – For all intents and purposes, financial markets think the brutal central bank tightening cycle is done. That may seem …
Column-Anxious Fedspeak disguises satisfaction :Mike Dolan
By Mike Dolan LONDON (Reuters) – The Fed will loudly insist again on Wednesday that its inflation battle is not yet won – even as …
Column-Is Brazil another BRIC in the wall? :Mike Dolan
By Mike Dolan LONDON (Reuters) – Almost as surprising as the weekend’s shock events in Brasilia was how little world markets appeared to react – …
MIKE MCKENNA: The Speaker Vote Reveals A Lot About The House’s Underlying Dysfunction
MIKE MCKENNA: The Speaker Vote Reveals A Lot About The House’s Underlying Dysfunction Michael McKenna on January 6, 2023 There can be no doubt that …
MIKE MCKENNA: What Congress Should Do Heading Into The New Year
MIKE MCKENNA: What Congress Should Do Heading Into The New Year Michael McKenna on January 1, 2023 What should the new Congress do? Or, more …
MIKE MCKENNA: Congress’ Catastrophic Spending Bill Is Incomprehensible By Design
MIKE MCKENNA: Congress’ Catastrophic Spending Bill Is Incomprehensible By Design Michael McKenna on December 23, 2022 There are so many appalling features of the recent …
Rhode Island Man Pleads Guilty to Charges for Swindling Victims Who Thought They Were Investing in ‘Magic Mike’ Stage Show
LOS ANGELES – A Rhode Island man has pleaded guilty to federal criminal charges, admitting he defrauded investors out of more than $4.2 million …
Fed may be alert to favoured yield curve alarm :Mike Dolan
By Mike Dolan LONDON (Reuters) -If the U.S. Federal Reserve tends to tighten hard until something breaks, as some investors still believe despite the central …
Column-Markets map out the end of the line :Mike Dolan
By Mike Dolan LONDON (Reuters) – Yet another eye-catching rebound in global stocks may just be another bear market bounce – but investors do sense …
Column-G7 ‘recognizing’ FX disruption is damp squib :Mike Dolan
By Mike Dolan LONDON (Reuters) – Japan’s solo battle against an overvalued U.S. dollar may feel a little lonelier after it met G7 finance chiefs …
Column-Sterling needs the kindness of reserve managers :Mike Dolan
By Mike Dolan LONDON (Reuters) – Perhaps remarkably, some of the world’s major economies still hold at least part of their rainy-day savings in sterling …
‘Mike Committed Political Suicide’: Trump Says Pence Won’t Be His Running Mate In 2024
‘Mike Committed Political Suicide’: Trump Says Pence Won’t Be His Running Mate In 2024 Arjun Singh on September 14, 2022 Former President Donald Trump has …
Jersey Shore Star Mike Sorrentino And Wife Lauren Expecting Second Baby
HAZLET, NEW JERSEY – MTV’s Jersey Shore, and Jersey Shore: Family Vacation star Mike “The Situation” Sorrentino and his wife Lauren have announced that they …
Mike Ashley’s Frasers Group expects higher profit next year
(Reuters) -Frasers Group, Mike Ashley’s sportswear and fashion group, said on Thursday it expected higher profit next year after 2022 earnings came in at the …
Column – Weary tolerance of Italian market volatility: Mike Dolan
By Mike Dolan LONDON – There’s a weary acceptance among investors of almost inevitable market volatility around Italy’s latest political upheaval – but that’s where …
Column: Extreme dollar a wake-up call for earnings outlook – Mike Dolan
By Mike Dolan LONDON – The U.S. dollar’s rampant surge may finally force corporate America to wake up to a brewing earnings recession. The investment …
Dignitas Announces Partnership with MIKE AND IKE®, Marking First-Ever Deal for The Gaming Org’s Fortnite Collective
Dignitas Fortnite Fans Will Be Treated to New Content Series and The Flavor Brawl Competitive Event LOS ANGELES, July 12, 2022 — Dignitas, the esports …
Buying the bear? Equity demand endured market pain: Mike Dolan
By Mike Dolan LONDON – It’s a hard habit to break. You’d be forgiven for thinking the worst two-quarter period for stock markets since 2009 …
Quadruple real rates? Ageing may turn to market headwind: Mike Dolan
By Mike Dolan LONDON – If you were hoping this was all a bad dream, take a deep breath. Many investors craving some return to …
Column-Upside down world of ‘reverse currency wars’ is real :Mike Dolan
By Mike Dolan LONDON – An upside down world of “reverse currency wars” is seeping into the real one. Devotees of Netflix hit “Stranger Things” …
Full force of central banks siphoning world liquidity: Mike Dolan
By Mike Dolan LONDON – Coordinated or not ahead of this month’s G7 summit, global central banks are accelerating interest rate hikes but also actively …
Fed shredding ‘forward guidance’ – for good or ill: Mike Dolan
By Mike Dolan LONDON – If the U.S. Federal Reserve’s plans are changing week to week, then the concept of “forward guidance” as a policy …
Column-A ‘hurricane’ of double-digit default rates :Mike Dolan
By Mike Dolan LONDON – If indeed there is an economic hurricane coming, then someone should shake the junk bond market. JPMorgan boss Jamie Dimon …
Trump’s Endorsement For New Jersey Congressional Candidate Mike Crispi is Huge
TOMS RIVER, NJ – The endorsement of Seaside Heights resident Mike Crispi in the 4th Congressional District by former President Donald Trump here at the …
Column-Missing the mix? Central bank view framed by fiscal space :Mike Dolan
By Mike Dolan LONDON – Markets may be missing the mix. As financial markets parse monetary policy tea leaves by the hour and remain in …
Column-Another leg lower? Markets not yet braced for recession: Mike Dolan
By Mike Dolan LONDON – One of the worst starts to a year in decades might lead you to think investors are already braced for …
Column-Crypto regulators may see 10% household exposure as high watermark :Mike Dolan
By Mike Dolan LONDON – Whatever the broader financial or economic stability risks of volatile crypto tokens, government watchdogs may reasonably balk at 10% household …
Column-Spiking ‘Misery Indexes’ dare central banks to blink :Mike Dolan
By Mike Dolan LONDON – It’s Friday the 13th and more than $10 trillion has now been sliced off the value of global stock markets …
Foreign funds fret geopolitics taints China yuan, markets :Mike Dolan
By Mike Dolan LONDON – Paradigm lost? A long-held view among many investors that China’s currency and markets would one day sit at the centre …
Column-Inflation narrative a ‘virus’ and policy headache: Mike Dolan
By Mike Dolan LONDON – Central banks risk losing the battle for stable prices as long-dormant inflation narratives and memories reawaken, adding a more complex …
Man Provokes Mike Tyson on Plane, Gets Beat
A passenger on the same flight as boxing legend Mike Tyson harassed the former world champion while he sat in his seat aboard a JetBlue …