Author: Steven Sahiounie

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell on Friday offered an explicit endorsement of an imminent policy easing, saying further cooling in the job market would be unwelcome and expressing confidence that inflation was within reach of the U.S. central bank’s 2% target.

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Hamas will dispatch a delegation to Cairo today as talks over a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip and a deal to exchange Israeli captives held in Gaza for Palestinian prisoners continue, Al Jazeera sources say. According to an unnamed “senior official” of the group who spoke to AFP news agency, Hamas will not participate in this round of talks even though a delegation will be present in Cairo. “The delegation will meet with senior Egyptian intelligence officials to be briefed on developments in the ongoing round of Gaza ceasefire talks … but this does not mean it will take part…

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