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Finance
Inflation Held Steady in September, While Consumers Spent Robustly
Overall inflation stayed at 3.4 percent in September, down from a peak of around 7 percent.
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News
Soft Landing, Here We Come?
Until quite recently there was a near consensus among forecasters that the U.S. economy was headed for a recession. In…
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Finance
The inflation slowdown remains bumpy, fresh consumer price data showed.
Consumer prices grew at the same pace in September as they had in August, a report released on Thursday showed.…
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Finance
Investors Are Calling It: The Federal Reserve May Be Done Raising Rates
Investors doubt that central bankers will lift borrowing costs again following big market moves that are widely expected to cool…
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Finance
Jobs Gains Surge, Troubling News for the Federal Reserve
Federal Reserve officials are likely to cast a wary eye on September jobs data, which showed that employers both hired…
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Finance
Chaos in Washington Adds to Market Jitters
Stocks and bonds have tumbled worldwide, with the 30-year Treasury bill hitting a 16-year high. Investors are worried about the…
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News
Wonking Out: Are High Interest Rates the New Normal?
Goodbye, inflation. Hello, unsustainable debt. If you’ve spent any substantial amount of time engaged in discourse about the economy —…
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News
None Dare Call it Victory
Flation — whether in- or de- — is, other things being equal, a bad thing. Money is the economy’s unit…
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Finance
The Fed’s Preferred Inflation Measure Cooled in June
The Personal Consumption Expenditures index moderated, even as consumer spending data looked strong.
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Finance
San Francisco Fed Ties to S.V.B. Chief Attracts Scrutiny to Century-Old Setup
As Greg Becker, the former C.E.O. of Silicon Valley Bank, prepares to testify before Congress, boards that oversee regional Federal…