Stock market today: Asian shares are mostly lower, with markets in Japan and US closed
Shares are mostly lower in Asia after a modest advance on Wall Street that kept the market on track for a fourth straight weekly gain.
President Biden focuses on factory jobs in Wisconsin, ignoring latest Trump indictment
President Joe Biden stopped in the battleground state of Wisconsin to discuss how economic policies he calls โBidenomicsโ are boosting the economy.
Basement talk, virtual handshake led to Manchin-Schumer deal
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin had been wrestling for more than a year over President Joe Bidenโs big rebuilding America package.
Rejected by courts, retirees take last shot to save pensions
When General Motors went through the biggest industrial bankruptcy proceedings in history, 20,000 retirees from GM's Delphi Corp. subsidiary saw their retirement savings slashed.
Fed's aggressive rate hikes raise likelihood of a recession
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell has pledged to do whatever it takes to curb inflation, now raging at a four-decade high and defying the Fedโs efforts so far to tame it.
Treasury Secretary Yellen expects inflation to 'remain high'
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has acknowledged that she and Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell โcould have used a better wordโ than transitory when describing the expected run of inflation in the U.S. economy.
Biden's challenge: Inflation overshadows robust job gains
President Joe Biden came before the television cameras Friday to celebrate yet another month of healthy job growth and low unemployment and the fastest pace of hiring in four decades under his watch.
Yellen: Biden's phased-in spending plan won't fuel inflation
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen says President Joe Bidenโs massive proposed spending on infrastructure, families and education wonโt fuel inflation because the plans would be phased in gradually over 10 years.
Even as economy heats up, Fed to stick with near-zero rates
Hiring is accelerating as Americans increasingly venture out to shop, eat at restaurants, and travel, and inflation is even picking up after lying dormant for years.
Biden's 'jobs Cabinet' to sell infrastructure as GOP resists
President Joe Biden says Republicans have talked for years about the need to rebuild the nationโs infrastructure and predicts GOP lawmakers will face pressure from their supporters if they donโt act.
Yellen's encore: Lending economic heft to Biden's virus plan
โYellen is uniquely poised," said Brian Deese, director of Bidenโs National Economic Council. "She has as much experience and expertise of addressing the challenges of our time as any living economic policymaker today. AdYellen juggled parenting with her work as a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, in the 1980s, helping to build her sonโs pinewood derby car as a colleague fed economic data into a computer. Itโs an argument cultivated from years of research that fully blossomed during Yellenโs time as Fed chair. She said Yellen values differences of opinion and diversity because that helps her get a fuller sense of the economy.
Yellen: Biden's plan could restore full employment by 2022
(AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)WASHINGTON โ Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said Sunday the country was still in a โdeep holeโ with millions of lost jobs but that President Joe Bidenโs $1.9 trillion relief plan could generate enough growth to restore full employment by next year. Summers also contended that Bidenโs plan would make less money available for other initiatives such as improving the nationโs infrastructure. The proposal will be part of the COVID-19 relief bill they are writing that is expected to largely follow Bidenโs plan. Under the House Democratsโ plan, those amounts would begin to phase out for individual parents earning $75,000 yearly and couples making $150,000. She said if Bidenโs relief package is approved, the country could get back to full employment by next year.
Gary Oldman on finding the frequency of 'Mank'
But Fincher cast Oldmanโs manager, Douglas Urbanski (as Larry Summers in โThe Social Networkโ), before he called up Oldman about another role. Orson Welles was a genius and if everybody doesnโt know that, I donโt know what to say.โIn crafting the portrait of Mankiewicz, Fincher wanted Oldman as himself. Oldman was himself once an alcoholic and, like Mank, prone to audacious gambles. Back when he was drinking, Oldman chose between two simultaneous offers โ โWaterworldโ and โThe Scarlet Letterโ โ with a coin flip. In a court filing in 2001, Fiorentino alleged that Oldman hit her with a telephone, an allegation that Oldman strongly denies.