Wednesday, April 29, 2026
Evening
- S&P 500 futures are little changed after ‘Mag 7’ titans Alphabet, Amazon report earnings: Live updates
- Brent oil tops $118 after Trump says he will blockade Iran until it agrees to a nuclear deal
- Yen Falls Below 160 Per Dollar to Weakest Mark Since 2024
- Bill Ackman’s Pershing Square USA Sinks 16% After $5 Billion IPO
- Alphabet ups 2026 capex to as much as $190 billion, expects to ‘significantly increase’ in 2027
- Meta’s Reality Labs lost over $4 billion in first quarter
- Powell to remain as Fed governor, denying Trump a key vacancy
- Warsh hints at a new reading of the Fed’s power over swap lines amid UAE discussion
- UK borrowing costs hit highest since 1998
- Powell Says He’ll Stay at Fed as Governor With ‘Low Profile’
- The Fed Officials Who Dissented at Powell's Last Meeting as Chair
- Bessent Says Powell Staying On Is ‘Violation’ of All Fed Norms
- A Battle of the Drones Looms Between China and Taiwan
- Brazil Central Bank Trims Interest Rate to 14.5% as Economy Slows and Inflation Firms
- Takeaways from Powell’s final Fed meeting as chair
- A.I. Spending Sets a Record, With No End in Sight
- Powell to Remain on Fed Board, Citing Legal Pressure From Trump
- Kevin Warsh Inherits a Fracturing Fed
Afternoon
- Stocks slide as oil jumps and Fed leaves rates the same: Live updates
- Bill Ackman’s Pershing Square USA Sinks 16% After $5 Billion IPO
- Federal Reserve keeps key rate unchanged even as four officials dissent, most in almost 34 years
- Jerome Powell says he will continue to serve as a Fed governor even after chairmanship ends
- Fed holds rates steady but with highest level of dissent since 1992
- Pentagon Says US Has Spent $25 Billion on Iran War So Far
- Powell Says He’ll Stay at Fed for ‘Period of Time’ After Term as Chair Ends
- Fed Holds Rates, Three Officials Dissent Against Easing Bias
- Trump Says He Rejects Iran Hormuz Offer, Keeps Blockade
- Oil Charges Toward $120 With No End in Sight to US-Iran War
- Oil Shock Will Hit Asia Harder Than the 1970s
- Fed Closes Powell Era With Rates on Hold and Divide Over What Comes Next
General
- Oil prices extend multi-day rally as Trump issues new threat to Iran; Brent tops $114 per barrel
- Crop Prices Hit Highest Since 2023 as War and Bad Weather Bite
- Trump Tells Aides to Prep for Lengthy Hormuz Blockade, Report Says
- Trump threatens Iran with AI picture of himself with a gun: ‘No more Mr. Nice guy!
- Live updates: Hegseth to face Congress for first time since Iran war began
- Fed likely to leave rates unchanged at what may be Powell’s last meeting, as Warsh to advance
- Powell's tenure as Fed chief, bookended by Trump, draws to a close
- US goods trade deficit widens in March as imports rise sharply
- Mortgage rates are rising again, but homebuyers are trickling back
- U.S. warns banks of sanctions risk over China ‘teapot’ refineries handling Iranian oil
- Trump's $1.5 Trillion Defense Plan Draws Rare Republican Pushback
- US Has More Natural Gas Than It Can Use as War Chokes Global Supply
- Behind the Curtain: We've been warned
- German inflation accelerates to 2.9% in April as energy costs soar
- Spanish Inflation Rises Further as Iran War Drives Energy Prices Higher
- Rare earth mining is poisoning Mekong River tributaries, threatening ‘the world’s kitchen’
- US Core Capital Goods Orders Surge by Most Since 2020
- US Housing Starts Surge to Highest Level Since December 2024
- America’s Bond-Market Privilege Is Disappearing as US Debt Soars
- Blue Owl Scrutiny to Ramp Up With Shares Near ‘Doomsday’ Levels
- Natural Disasters Are Rewriting Home-Insurance Costs. See How It Impacts You
- Pentagon Detailed $1.5 Trillion Budget Request Last Week
- Xi Has $1.2 Trillion Rare Earths Leverage Ahead of Trump Visit
- America’s Broken Politics Are Dragging It Down a Fiscal Black Hole
- What to Watch at the Federal Reserve’s April Meeting
- Trump Tells Aides to Prepare for Extended Blockade of Iran
- The Global Energy Order Is Breaking Down
- Australia’s Consumer Inflation Jumps on Oil Shock
- How Jay Powell repelled Donald Trump’s attacks on the Federal Reserve
- Ken Griffin suggests wealthy individuals do not understand private credit risks
- How OpenAI’s $500bn data centre venture Stargate has shifted shape
- Greenland ice sheet and Europe’s glaciers shrink further, scientists say