News Highlights: Top Global Markets News of the Day - Wednesday at 1 PM ET


News Highlights: Top Global Markets News of the Day - Wednesday at 1 PM ET

A Credit-Score Hangover Is Hitting America's Riskiest Borrowers

Credit scores soared during the pandemic, enabling a borrowing binge that has now forced a reckoning.

U.S. stocks settled higher, in a holiday-shortened pre-Christmas trading session with all three major indexes gaining for the third trading day in a row.

The Fed on Monday said it planned to overhaul the stress-test regime for banks and planned to seek public comment on planned changes.

Lower valuations are usually the silver lining of a slumping market. Not so much in 2024.

Bitcoin, the largest cryptocurrency, has more than doubled in price in 2024, but this is why 2025 will likely be a defining year for cryptos.

The Australian central bank The Reserve Bank of Australia is growing in confidence that inflation is heading sustainably back to target.

The oil-and-gas industry needs plastic production to rise to offset a decline in demand for transport fuel.

Stocks rose to kick off a holiday-shortened week on Monday, but the bond market and the U.S. dollar will likely need to cooperate for the equities rally to resume in smooth fashion.

The Fed has 24,000 employees and a self-funded budget of $7 billion.

Senior Bank of Canada officials mulled a smaller quarter-point cut this month, arguing they could be patient amid encouraging signs that previous rate cuts are starting to spur a spending recovery, according to minutes released Monday by the central bank.

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