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Risks to the quality of official U.S. economic data - long seen as the gold standard - are worrying 89 of 100 top policy ...
US economy stays strong with robust data, resilient spending, and firm balance sheets. Growth to slow slightly but remains ...
With a stronger-than-expected job report for September and equity markets continuing to push through all-time highs, the question arises: is this the most resilient U.S. economy we’ve seen in rec ...
Excluding the volatile food and energy categories, core inflation increased 2.9% in June from a year earlier, up from 2.8% in ...
The U.S. economy is mostly in good shape but that isn’t saving Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell from a spell of angst.
The US economy is on the verge of an extremely rare achievement. Economic growth in the first half of the year was solid, with the economy expanding a robust 2.8% annualized rate in the second ...
The U.S. Economy Reaches Superstar Status. No, really. By Rogé Karma. Illustration by Michael Haddad. June 10, 2024. ... Even that understates just how good the current labor market is.
The U.S. current account deficit contracted in the fourth quarter, but the improvement could be temporary as goods imports surged to a record high in January, driven by businesses preemptively ...
Ordinarily, inflation eases when the economy contracts. The U.S. last experienced stagflation in the 1970s and early '80s, when oil production became more costly and inflation surged.
NEW YORK — Stocks tumbled Friday on worries the U.S. economy could be cracking under the weight of high interest rates meant to whip inflation. The S&P 500 sank 1.8% for its first back-to-back ...
The current U.S. economy is confusing and contradictory. Once again, unemployment tied a half-century low in April, and the net hiring number came in stronger than economists had forecast (253,000 ...
Maintaining the dollar as the world’s reserve asset is critical to US economic health and the nation’s future, Scott Bessent, Donald Trump’s nominee for Treasury secretary, will tell a ...