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In connecting Federal Reserve interest rate policy since the 1950s with inflation and employment conditions, some interesting results materialize.

The company didn’t clarify if Guo himself is under investigation, but said its directors feel the probe has not posed any material adverse impact on the group.

California-based electric auto start-up Faraday Future (FF) on Thursday announced a decision to build a $1 billion production facility in a suburb of Las Vegas, Nevada.

A growing number of traders are, nonetheless, positioning themselves for notably higher prices a year from now through the purchase of bullish call options. Light Louisiana Sweet, a similar grade of crude sold on the Gulf Coast, traded at 35 cents a barrel more than Brent.

The worst-kept secret in the financial world is that the Federal Reserve is all but sure Wednesday to raise interest rates from record lows by a modest quarter point.

Brent traded less than 40 USA cents above the lows last seen during the 2008 financial crisis of US$36.20 a barrel.

As the market attempts to price in a rate increase, investors may soon shift gears to pricing in Federal Reserve guidance on interest rates in 2016.

Photos surfaced on social media Monday that appeared to show Guo speaking at the company’s annual meeting.

North Las Vegas has been courting Faraday for its Apex Industrial Park, where medical marijuana growers have helped transform 2,000 acres (809 hectares) of vacant desert into a site with water and power lines suitable for development.

U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter, left, and Joint Chiefs Chairman Marine Corps Gen. Joseph Dunford Jr. testify before a House Armed Services Committee hearing on “U.S. Strategy for Syria and Iraq”, in Washington, Dec. 1, 2015.

The Fed slashed interest rates to zero in December 2008 to stimulate the economy and boost the housing market during the depths of the Great Recession.

Speaking to an Assembly of First Nations (AFN) special chiefs gathering in Gatineau, Quebec, the Liberal leader announced that his government had begun the process to create the long-awaited national inquiry into the almost 1,200 indigenous women and girls who have been murdered...

Companies and government agencies added 211,000 jobs last month while the pace of hiring in October and September was stronger than previously reported, the Labor Department said.

But in a break from that strategy, OPEC has held production steady since past year in a bid to defend-and extend-its share of the oil market.

With an interest rate hike, the Fed dramatically increases theses risks and a potential repeat of the 1980’s Latin America debt crisis.