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This Week In A Nutshell The first jobs report of 2026—and the first “normal” report post-government shutdown—will be published on Friday. We’ll be on the lookout for signs that the labor market is weakening more than expected, which would bring about lower rates. Upcoming Attractions This is jobs week with a series of labor market

Last Week In A Nutshell A quiet week was capped by a surprisingly dovish speech from Fed Chair Powell, who set the stage for the Fed to restart rate cuts at their September 17 meeting, bringing rates down to end the week. This Week’s Attractions The upcoming week looks to be very quiet on market-moving

While the Cen­tral Bank cur­rent­ly holds around US$163 mil­lion in gold re­serves as at the end of De­cem­ber 2024, with mount­ing eco­nom­ic and geopo­lit­i­cal un­cer­tain­ties, T&T’s banker to the Gov­ern­ment and reg­u­la­tor of fi­nan­cial in­sti­tu­tions ought to se­ri­ous­ly con­sid­er ex­pand­ing these hold­ings, giv­en gold’s ef­fec­tive­ness as a hedge against eco­nom­ic in­sta­bil­i­ty, econ­o­mist Dr Valmik­ki Ar­joon

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NEWS & SOCIETY More business economists expect later recession than previously forecast: survey | The Hill Skip to content AP Photo/Seth Wenig Traders on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange SEE Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell’s news conference after the Federal Reserve interest rate announcement in New York...

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On the second day of the federal cabinet retreat, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his ministers heard from a trio of economists who came bearing grim news about Canada's economic outlook...

Economists at the Bank of International Settlements (BIS) have recommended three policies regulators worldwide could adopt in order to deal with the risks posed by cryptocurrencies. “Authorities can now consider a variety of policy approaches and at the same time work to improve the existing monetary system in the public interest,” they advised. BIS Economists