Her break is expected to last until April, although a return date has not been specified, according to two people at the network with knowledge of her plans, requesting anonymity to describe private discussions.
Whether Ms. Maddow returns to a full slate of nightly broadcasts, or dials back her schedule to something less grueling, has been the subject of speculation among some MSNBC anchors and producers.
She will not be entirely absent: She is expected to make occasional return appearances on MSNBC throughout her hiatus, including for the network’s coverage of President Biden’s state of the union speech in March.
She is also working with the actor Ben Stiller and the producer Lorne Michaels on a film adapted from “Bag Man,” a podcast she hosted about the 1970s scandal involving Spiro T.
MSNBC said last week that he would be replaced by the anchor Stephanie Ruhle, with “Morning Joe,” the network’s morning franchise, adding an additional hour at 9 a.m.
During the economic expansion that stretched from the global financial crisis to the start of the pandemic, the Fed acted very gradually — it slowly dialed back bond buying meant to help the economy, then only ploddingly shrank its balance sheet of asset holdings.
But inflation was muted, the labor market was slowly crawling out of an abyss, and business conditions needed the Fed’s support.
The pace of policy retreat is still up for debate and officials reiterated that it will hinge on incoming data — but several also noted that economic conditions are unusually strong.
Tricky questions lie ahead about how big the balance sheet should be, she noted.
Ms. George estimated that the Fed’s big bond holdings were weighing down longer-term interest rates by roughly 1.5 percentage points — nearly cutting the interest rate on 10-year government debt in half.
“While it might be tempting to err on the side of caution, the potential costs associated with an excessively large balance sheet should not be ignored,” she said.
The Fed is not behind the curve, she said on a Reuters webcast, but it needs to react to the reality that the labor market appears at least temporarily short on workers and inflation is running hot.
Markets are pricing in a small but meaningful chance that the Fed is going to raise rates by a half-point in March, instead of a more typical quarter-percentage-point increase.
He said on Yahoo on Monday that he does not prefer a supersize increase in March at this point, though he has “increasingly” seen that meeting as the right time for the Fed to begin raising rates.
It once was a rule of thumb on Wall Street that January set the tone for the year.
This was in keeping with sharp moves — some up, but mostly down — in previous weeks as investors reassessed their assumptions about markets and the economy.
Stocks quickly recovered from declines in the early days of the pandemic and are now up more than 90 percent from their 2020 low.
On Monday, it gained 3.4 percent, helping pare its losses for the month to 9 percent.
After gaining during much of the pandemic, the stock market was turbulent in recent weeks.
It came close to a drop of 20 percent, a more significant threshold known as a bear market, but is now about 11.3 percent off its peak.
More specifically, the concern is over how the Federal Reserve will fight stubbornly high inflation, which has been stoked in part by extensive emergency support provided by the Fed to bolster the economy during the pandemic, including cutting its key policy interest rate to near zero.
For decades, many economists presumed that globalization and technological innovation made persistently high inflation, last seen in the 1970s and ’80s, unlikely to return.
But he gave few details on how high interest rates would need to go or what the Fed might do about the trillions of dollars in bonds it has bought to lift the economy during the past two years.
“The Fed really changed its tone in the last month,” said Kathy Bostjancic, the chief U.S.
January market drops are now fairly common, including in the previous two years, which nonetheless ended with large annual gains.
UBS’s top stock strategist, Mark Haefele, said in a note to clients on Thursday that he was also sticking to his year-end target: up 15 percent from the close on Friday.
During the past 60 years, the average high-low spread — the difference between the highest point of the day and the lowest point of the day as measured by the market-tracking S&P 500 index — has been 1.4 percent, said Howard Silverblatt, a senior analyst at S&P Dow Jones Indices.
Bank of America wrote in a research note last week that its retail clients, as a group, had put more money into the stock market than they had pulled out.
In the same time, though, hedge funds that use Bank of America to trade sold nearly $3 billion more in stock and bond funds than they bought.
Analysts believe that fourth-quarter profits rose 24 percent for companies in the S&P 500 compared with a year earlier, according to the market data service FactSet.
Strong earnings from Apple supported the market last week, easing fears that the tech industry’s period of fast growth may be coming to an end.
Another good sign: Sectors that are tied closely to the economy, like financial stocks and industrials, have done better than the market as a whole.
Trump was elected president, or even a decade ago, when inflation was running at a mere 1.7 percent annual rate — compared with the 7 percent year-over-year increase in the Consumer Price Index recorded in December.
At current rates, buyers of Treasuries seem likely to have a negative return on their ownership of the asset.
government — which standard theories say should make a nation’s borrowing more expensive — continuing demand for government debt securities has meant that investors are, in inflation-adjusted terms, paying to hold Treasury bonds rather than getting a positive return.
Microsoft acquired Bungie in 2000, and its signature title, Halo, helped turn Microsoft’s Xbox console into a major game platform.
Now, Bungie will be acquired by Microsoft’s biggest rival in the game console market: Sony.
Dalian Wanda Group, a Chinese conglomerate, acquired Legendary for $3.5 billion in 2016.
Wanda will continue to have ownership in Legendary, along with representation on its seven-person board.
In November, a South Korean media conglomerate whose entertainment arm produced “Parasite” said it was acquiring a majority stake in the scripted arm of Endeavor Content for $775 million.
also said that, in another violation of its rules, many online reviews of Hubble had been written by people who had been compensated, including in at least one instance one of its own executives.
They said that the brand’s direct-to-consumer model bypassed eye care professionals, that it did not properly vet prescriptions and that it took advantage of federal regulations to sell customers its own brand of contact lenses.
Vision Path and Hubble sought to disrupt the contact lens industry by offering a line of low-cost daily lenses via monthly $39 subscriptions.
But contact lenses are typically fitted, prescribed and sold by optometrists, who often specify brands from major manufacturers like Acuvue Oasys or Biofinity Toric in prescriptions.
This, according to the F.T.C., “ensured that Hubble could not receive customers’ prescriptions and thus could act as though it was unaware that these consumers had prescriptions for non-Hubble lenses.” The company sometimes failed to make required attempts to verify customer-provided prescription information or made it difficult or impossible for prescribers to verify prescriptions, according to the F.T.C.
“Hubble’s business model boosted its bottom line but created needless risk for its customers’ eye health,” Samuel Levine, the director of the F.T.C.’s Bureau of Consumer Protection, said in the release.
Gross domestic product, the broadest measure of economic output, grew 0.3 percent in the final quarter of 2021 compared with the previous three months, Eurostat, Europe’s statistics agency, reported Monday.
With its export-orientated economy and large manufacturing sector, Germany felt the blow of the clogged global supply chains more than many of its neighbors.
Economists expect growth across Europe to return to prepandemic levels in the first part of this year, but with the pace varying by country.
On the whole, Europe has been slower to recover than the United States, where the economy grew last year at its fastest pace since 1984, although inflation is taking a bite out of the recovery and people remain cautious about the coronavirus.
But commentators like Peter Kafka of Recode note a key difference between Spotify and those companies: Spotify directly paid a reported $100 million for the exclusive rights to Mr. Rogan’s podcast, and the company has noted that his show has increased its ad revenue.
“I am going to do my best in the future to balance things out,” Mr. Rogan said in a video statement posted late Sunday.
attorney for the Southern District of New York, who ascended to that post after the tumultuous 2020 firing of her predecessor, Geoffrey Berman, is rejoining Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson as a senior counsel in the firm’s white-collar practice, which she led from 1995 to 2012.
With her return, Fried Frank has effectively recreated the Southern District’s recent front office: Mr. Berman arrived in December 2020 to lead its white-collar practice, and Ilan Graff, the deputy U.S.
In January 2018, Mr. Berman, after being appointed by the Trump administration to lead the Southern District, named Ms. Strauss as his senior counsel, and she later became his deputy.
After Mr. Berman initially refused to step down, Mr. Trump ended up firing him, leaving Ms. Strauss as the acting U.S.
attorney, Ms. Strauss announced the indictments of prominent defendants like Ghislaine Maxwell, the financier Jeffrey Epstein’s former companion, who was convicted of sex trafficking in December, and Stephen K.
“This moment of intense interest in cybersecurity” heightened Mr. Vance’s already considerable concerns, he said in an interview.
Rising tensions between Russia and Ukraine have raised the specter of ransomware attacks worldwide.
“To say this is top of mind for our clients is an understatement,” said Colin Murray, the chief executive of Baker McKenzie North America.
Mr. Vance declined to seek re-election after three terms as district attorney, handing over a long-running criminal investigation into Mr. Trump and his family business to his successor, Alvin Bragg, at the start of the year.
Agriculture groups and farmers have long raised concerns about supply chain issues that have disrupted delivery, including logjams that have left ships idling at the port and exports stranded.
The Port of Oakland, a major port for moving agricultural products, recorded the highest volume of imports in its 94-year history last year, driven by the surge in consumer spending.
The project will cost $5 million and could be a template for future partnerships at other hubs, an Agriculture Department official said.
The twin ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, which account for around 40 percent of United States imports, were particularly hard hit.
The startling high number comes as 90 container ships off the San Pedro Bay coast, a record number, were waiting to come into port in Los Angeles and Long Beach, as of Friday.
Federal and state authorities have designated port workers as essential workers during the pandemic because of their critical role in maintaining the nation’s supply chain.
The year began with about 150 new cases reported per day among dockworkers on the West Coast.
One positive test, though, ensnares multiple workers, as contact tracing identifies others who will have to quarantine.
Omicron so far has packed a less powerful punch, Mr. McKenna said.
12, the state attorney general sent a letter to the county’s health director the same day telling her that he would sue to block the mandate from being enforced.
In New York, an indoor mask policy was ruled unconstitutional on Monday, then reinstated on Tuesday when an appeals court judge temporarily stayed the lower court’s ruling.
But a federal appeals court partly overturned the injunction early this week, sending the case back with instructions to limit the injunction’s effect to schools with disabled students.
More than half of the state’s school districts are still requiring masks for all students inside schools, according to a Washington Post analysis, and seven, including the state’s largest, are suing him over the issue.
A bad month for stocks: The S&P 500 is on track for its worst monthly drop since March 2020, even after gaining 2.4 percent on Friday.
Investors have been worried that a streak of record profits for the tech giants may be coming to an end, but those concerns were tempered after Apple reported a better-than-expected profit on Thursday.
Fed confirmation hearings: The Senate Banking Committee will hold a hearing for three nominees to be Federal Reserve officials: Sarah Bloom Raskin, who has been nominated to be the vice chair for supervision, and Lisa Cook and Philip Jefferson, who have been nominated to the Fed’s board of governors.
The progress of the job market will be watched closely by investors as they try to parse how quickly the Federal Reserve, which is charged with maintaining full employment, might raise interest rates.
It has never required proof of vaccination for restaurants, common on the continent.
England has been eager to return to business of every variety — restaurants, theaters, pubs and yes, soccer games.