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[ad_1] The number: U.S. wholesale prices rose 0.3% in November, the Labor Department said Friday. Economists polled by The Wall Street Journal has forecast a 0.2%...
[ad_1] The November U.S. jobs report on Friday showed the U.S. economy gained 261,000 jobs last month, with the unemployment rate holding steady at 3.7%. Economists...
[ad_1] The numbers: U.S. pending home sales fell 4.6% in October, the fifth straight monthly decline, the National Association of Realtors said Wednesday. Economists polled by...
[ad_1] Anyone watching the market knows stocks have been hammered since the Federal Reserve began in March what has turned into an aggressive series of interest...
[ad_1] Income-seeking investors are looking at an opportunity to scoop up shares of real estate investment trusts. Stocks in that asset class have become more attractive...
[ad_1] Several headwinds that pummeled the stock market in 2022 have turned into tailwinds, setting the stage for a rally in U.S. equities heading into year-end,...
[ad_1] Investors are waking up to big trouble in big China. Stock futures and oil prices are falling after angry anti-COVID zero protests swept the country....
[ad_1] With the S&P 500 holding above 4,000 and the CBOE Volatility Gauge, known as the “Vix” or Wall Street’s “fear gauge,” VIX, +0.74% having fallen...
[ad_1] The U.S. leading economic index fell 0.8% in October, the Conference Board said Friday. Economists polled by The Wall Street Journal had expected a 0.4%...
[ad_1] The numbers: Existing-home sales fell 5.9% to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 4.43 million in October, the National Association of Realtors said Friday. Compared...
[ad_1] The numbers: Construction on new houses fell 4.2% in October as high mortgage rates put off buyers and forced builders to scale back, a situation that’s...
[ad_1] U.S. stock futures rallied Tuesday morning after the producer price index for October came in lower than expected. The PPI index slowed to 8% from...
[ad_1] Federal Reserve Gov. Christopher Waller said Sunday that financial markets seem to have overreacted to the softer-than-expected October consumer price inflation data last week. “It...
[ad_1] Investors feeling giddy about last week’s sharp rally for stocks might want to give a listen to Tom Waits’ song, “Whistlin’ Past the Graveyard” from...
[ad_1] The stock market remains open Friday, Nov. 11, the Veterans Day holiday in the U.S., even through it counts as a holiday for the $53...
[ad_1] The numbers: The economy gained surprisingly strong 261,000 new jobs in October, underscoring the persistent strength of a labor market that the Federal Reserve worries...
[ad_1] Investors cheered when a report last week showed the economy expanded in the third quarter after back-to-back contractions. But it’s too early to get excited,...
[ad_1] The numbers: A closely-watched index that measures U.S. manufacturing activity fell 0.7 percentage points to 50.2 in October, according to the Institute for Supply Management...
[ad_1] The Chicago Business Barometer, also known as the Chicago PMI, dropped to 45.2 in October from 45.7 in the prior month, according to data released...
[ad_1] First the easy part. Economists widely expect Federal Reserve monetary-policy makers to approve a fourth straight jumbo interest-rate rise at its meeting this week. A...