Recession

PacWest shares sink despite liquidity lift

Shares are down for PacWest after subsidiary Pacific Western Bank said deposits are stable after receiving 1.4 billion from investment firm Atlas SP Partners.

A tick-tock of the US banking crisis

The Federal Reserve’s interest rate hike strategy has inadvertently caused a banking crisis as elevated interest rates slow bank loans.

You can’t fire them, they quit

There are still far more job openings than there were before the pandemic giving the Federal Reserve an opening to attack inflation with steeper rate hikes.

Intel slashes dividend

The Intel Corp.’s board of directors announced the reduction of its quarterly dividend to $0.125 per share of the company’s common stock due to macroeconomic uncertainty.