The Merchants Payments Coalition and the Payment Choice Coalition locked arms to advance stablecoins as the Senate Banking Committee passed a stablecoin bill.
US equity funds draw inflows on signs of cooling inflation
U.S. equity funds attracted inflows for the week ending March 12 as some investors were buoyed by a weaker CPI reading, while worries persisted over the economic impact of President Donald Trump's trade policies. U.S. equity funds saw net purchases of $4.67 billion during the week, although the strong inflows from February, which totaled about $9 billion, have tapered off with a combined outflow of $4.81 billion in the first two weeks of March. "We recommend investors embrace diversification and stay invested despite ongoing volatility ...
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Analysis-Investors, advisors flock to 'buffer' ETFs as markets sell off
(Reuters) -Investors are increasingly taking refuge from the tumultuous U.S. stock market by pouring into a type of exchange-traded fund that offers a tradeoff, a cap on potential gains in return for a cushion against possible losses. Over the past month, as the market has pulled back sharply, "buffer" ETFs have seen $2.5 billion of inflows, according to CFRA Research. On Monday, the S&P 500's biggest drop of the year, such buffer ETFs pulled in $140 million in net assets, according to CFRA.
With uncertainty comes growing economic risk for the Fed to weigh
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Since U.S. President Donald Trump took office in January, he has imposed biting new tariffs, with more coming, begun a disruptive cull of federal jobs and spending, risked a political fracture with Europe, and acknowledged that an economy that was by most measures fine when he took over now faces some bumps, or worse. Business and consumer sentiment have dropped, some measures of manufacturing have weakened, and the stock prices that contributed to record household wealth just as Trump was about to return to Washington have declined sharply, a possible precursor to slower spending among wealthier households that has propped up overall consumption. Employment growth has largely persisted, and inflation has continued to moderate, according to the most recent data, but tariffs imposed by the U.S. and retaliatory actions from trading partners raise the chance that could reverse.
Fed on tap for tariff-jolted market as investors look for calm
A U.S. stock market rocked by President Donald Trump's back-and-forth on foreign import tariffs faces a Federal Reserve meeting in the coming week, as investors look for hints about further interest rate cuts that could restore some calm to markets. The Fed's latest monetary policy meeting comes as Wall Street is increasingly worried about an economic slowdown, with concerns exacerbated by Trump ramping up his tariff war. The U.S. central bank is widely expected to hold interest rates steady on Wednesday, but investors are anticipating cuts later in the year and will be looking for signs the Fed may be preparing to move.
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