Finance

US economy on 'shaky footing': Mitch Roschelle

Macro Trends Advisors LLC founding partner Mitch Roschelle argues wages aren't keeping up with inflation, which means people may have to get paid more in an attempt to incentivize them to get back into the workforce. 

Fidelity ramps up hiring, adding 12,000 jobs

Fidelity Investments has plans to add an additional 12,000 employees by the end of Q3, which the company says will put them on track to break another hiring record.

Fed nominee Brainard expected to get Senate nod Tuesday

Lael Brainard, one of President Joe Biden's four nominees to the Federal Reserve, is poised to become the U.S. central bank's next vice chair after she cleared a procedural hurdle in the U.S. Senate Monday evening with bipartisan support.

Lawmakers, Yellen mull freezing Russian gold reserves

A bipartisan group of senators is working with the Treasury Department to prevent Russia from liquidating its giant stash of gold, potentially blocking one of the Kremlin's last methods for circumventing punishing financial sanctions.