Economics

Inflation & Prices

Just How Much Data Does the Fed Need to Cut Rates?

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Despite new data this week showing inflation has cooled, Powell and the Federal Reserve are still expected to hold off on rate cuts.

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International Economics

Washington Trade Talks With Beijing Drive S&P 500 Toward Record High

The on-off dynamic of the US-China economic relationship so far this year would make the writing rooms of most soap operas blush.

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Personal Finance

Ripped Job Market Swipes Left on New Grads

For the first time in decades, recent college grads have a higher unemployment rate than the rest of the economy.

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Banking

Wall Street’s Elite Get Serious About Debt Alarmism

JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon and BlackRock CEO Larry Fink sounded off last week about higher deficit spending in the US.

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International Economics

Tariffs Deliver Record Drop in US Trade Deficit

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Does the deficit crunch mean the US has won the first big battle of the trade war? Well, that’s a complicated question

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Economics

Wall Street Braces for More Investors Dissing Dollar

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The dollar decline comes just as a couple of other key US economic indicators have begun blinking red, too.

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Real Estate

Is the Housing Bubble Finally Losing Pressure?

A new report by Redfin showed that US home sellers now outnumber by buyers by nearly half a million, the biggest gap on record since 2013.

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Economics

Shrinking GDP Shows Tariffs’ Impact as Courts Scrutinize Their Legality

Keeping track of the Trump’s on-and-off tariff strategy was hard enough — and now the judicial system is having their turn at the switch.

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Economics

Waiting Game: Why Fed Isn’t Ready to Cut Rates (Yet)

The Fed was already walking a tightrope over a bottomless pit of stagflation before waves of tariffs came to rattle the line.

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Economics

Consumer Confidence Rebounds as Tariff Tensions (Temporarily) Ease

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You can’t bounce back without first getting low. And, in April, consumer confidence according to the Conference Board got real low.

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