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Markets

Limbo for Longer: Don’t Expect More Fed Rate Cuts Before Mid-2026

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2026 presents a catch-22 for the Fed. It normally cuts rates to buoy hiring, which tightened last year, but that could drive up inflation.

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Banking

Huntington Bank’s 21% Growth Shows Main Street’s up for Borrowing

Huntington Bancshares reported that its average commercial loans grew 12% from the prior quarter and 21% from a year ago in Q4.

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Banking

White House Affordability Push Grabs Big Bank Bulls by the Horns

The six largest US banks paid more than $140 billion in dividends and buybacks last year, setting a record, according to Bloomberg.

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Banking

Freed from Asset Cap, Wells Fargo Ramps up Lending

Loans in Wells Fargo’s corporate and investment banking business climbed 14% in the three months through December.

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Banking

Morgan Stanley Pushes Past Crypto Blues to Build its First Bitcoin ETF

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Bitcoin ETFs just notched $697 million worth of inflows on Monday, their biggest gain since early October.

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Semiconductors

With AI Bases Loaded, Nvidia Bats a Quarterly Earnings Home Run

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Nvidia faced “the tough task of meeting high earnings expectations and high skepticism around AI capex,” per analysts at Bank of America.

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Economics

US Tariffs Chew a Hole in Retailers’ (and Shoppers’) Christmas Stockings

The US has basically imposed tariffs on Christmas this year: Trees, ornaments and even gifts. Now, both shoppers and sellers feel Grinchy.

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Banking

Investor Summit Gives Bank of America a Chance to Soothe Angsty Investors

Compared its peers, BofA has lagged in expanding into less traditional activities such as wealth management, credit cards and loan growth.

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Advisor Upside

JPMorgan Tokenizes PE Fund on In-house Blockchain

The move comes before the bank’s full rollout of its tokenization platform next year.

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Banking

Upbeat Regional Bank Earnings Calm Fears of ‘Cockroach’ Loan Infestation

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Disclosures by two regional lenders last week set off a mini-panic about bad loans on the books of small and medium cap banks.

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