In late July Fed Chairman Jerome Powell and the majority of the policy-making Federal Open Market Committee voted to maintain the “wait-and-see” approach to interest rate cuts. The FOMC held the benchmark Federal Funds Rate to a range of 4.25% to 4.5% to monitor the potential impact of tariffs into the U.S. supply chain.

A jump in U.S. wholesale prices last month looks to have all but erased the possibility that the Federal Reserve will deliver a jumbo-sized half-percentage-point interest rate cut in September, though expectations for a quarter-percentage-point move next month,

Crypto Remains in the Spotlight: Investors continue to buy all things crypto. Bullish (BLSH) went public in an IPO yesterday, with its stock soaring from its offer price of $37 to $68 – an 84% gain – but shares had been as high as $118, a 219% rise. BLSH is up another 13% in premarket trading.