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Fed Officials Thought Rates Could Rise More if Inflation Stayed Stubborn
Minutes from the Federal Reserve’s early November meeting suggested another rate increase remained possible, but officials were in no hurry.
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Finance
Fed Officials Thought Rates Could Rise More if Inflation Stayed Stubborn
Minutes from the Federal Reserve's early November meeting suggested another rate increase remained possible, but officials were in no hurry.
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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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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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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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None Dare Call it Victory
Flation — whether in- or de- — is, other things being equal, a bad thing. Money is the economy’s unit…