Chicago mayor’s office says statues were ‘temporarily removed … until further notice’ after ‘unsafe’ demonstrations. Two statues of Christopher Columbus that stood in Chicago parks were taken down early on Friday at the direction of Mayor Lori Lightfoot, a week after protesters trying to topple one of the monuments to the Italian explorer clashed with […]
NEW YORK, Dec 26 (Reuters) – The Federal Reserve bought $825 million of agency mortgage-backed securities in the week from Dec. 19 to Dec. 24, compared with $1.806 billion purchased the previous week, the New York Federal Reserve Bank said on Thursday. In a move to help the housing market begun in October 2011, the […]
By David Randall NEW YORK (Reuters) – Investors pulled nearly $12.6 billion out of mutual funds and exchange-traded funds that hold U.S. stocks last week, extending the longest retreat from the U.S. stock market since 2016, according to data released Wednesday by the Investment Company Institute. The outflows came during a week in which fears […]
