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Jerome Powell Suggests Fed Will Soon Cut Interest Rates in Jackson Hole Speech  The New York Times Trump moves to oust Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell in unprecedented move  NBC News Fed Chair Jerome Powell signals possible rate cut, sending stocks sharply higher  NPR Powell’s Signal on Possible Rate Cut Not Enough for Trump  Bloomberg Fed’s Powell says monetary policy framework back on more …

NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street is rallying on Friday toward its best day in months after the head of the Federal Reserve hinted the cuts to interest rates that investors and President Donald Trump crave so much may be on the way. The S&P 500 leaped 1.6%, and its first gain in six days has it on track to …

Mortgage Interest Rates Today: Mortgage Rates Stay Put—for Now—While Fed’s Next Step Looms  Realtor.com Mortgage rates hold steady at lowest level of the year  Yahoo Finance Average rate on a 30-year mortgage holds steady at lowest level in nearly 10 months  woodtv.com Current refi mortgage rates report for Aug. 21, 2025  Fortune Mortgage Rates Drop to 10-Month Low, Pushing Down Monthly Housing Payments  Redfin Source …

President Donald Trump has gone on a bond-buying spree since taking office, reportedly sinking more than $100 million into debt issued by big companies and municipal governments alike. Trump put millions of dollars behind his bond strategy in February including between $500,000 and $1 million each into bonds issued by companies such as Home Depot, T-Mobile, and United Healthcare. Another …

JACKSON, Wyoming (Reuters) -Kansas City Fed president Jeffrey Schmid said on Thursday there seems no rush to cut interest rates, with inflation still above the central bank’s 2% target and the labor market still in solid shape. “I think we’re in a really good spot and I think we really have to have very definitive data to be moving that …

Sales of previously occupied U.S. homes rose in July as homebuyers were encouraged by a modest pullback in mortgage rates, slowing home price growth and the most properties on the market in five years. Existing home sales rose 2% last month from June to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 4.01 million units, the National Association of Realtors said Thursday. …

The Big Money Show panel discusses President Donald Trumps plan to remodel Jerome Powells Federal Reserve. The minutes of the Federal Reserve’s July meeting released on Wednesday showed that policymakers were more concerned about the risk of inflation from the impact of tariffs than the labor market as they debated interest rate policy. The Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC), the Fed …

WASHINGTON (AP) — Most Federal Reserve officials said last month that the threat of higher inflation was a greater concern than the potential for job losses, leading the central bank to keep its key rate unchanged. According to the minutes of the July 29-30 meeting, released Wednesday, members of the Fed’s interest-rate setting committee “assessed that the effects of higher tariffs had …

Fed Minutes Reveal Broad Support for Holding Rates Steady Last Month  The Wall Street Journal Divided Fed worried about tariffs, inflation and the labor market, minutes show  CNBC Minutes of the Federal Open Market Committee, July 29–30, 2025  Federal Reserve Board (.gov) Fed Officials Split Over How to Read Economic Signals  The New York Times Fed minutes could show whether Waller and Bowman had …

Materials Potassium carbonate (K2CO3, 99%) was purchased from Thermo Fisher Scientific. K2CO3 was kept in a Napco 5831 vacuum oven at 120 °C for at least 24 h to eliminate the residual water. Deuterium oxide (D2O, 99.9%) was purchased from Cambridge Isotope Laboratories and used as received. Iridium wire (0.5 mm, 99.95%) was obtained from Taobao. Ag/AgCl reference electrodes (CHI111) were purchased from …