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If Inflation Improves, Are Interest Rate Cuts Back on the Table?
Following three months of hotter-than-expected inflation reports, no one imagined the Federal Reserve would start cutting rates at its policy meeting earlier this month. The Fed is holding the...

Consumers Take Over Inflation Fight
pm EDT The Federal Reserve is losing its audience. The ever-growing inflationary period has pushed consumers to take over. A key anti-inflation spending strategy returns When the inflation period...

With Inflation All But Vanquished, Continued Tight Monetary Policy Is Negatively Impacting The Real Economy
...Commercial Real Estate (CRE) CRE defaults continue with one or more major foreclosures each week. The two featured here are: 255 California Avenue, San Francisco (left-hand picture) is in talks...

2024 Atlantic Hurricane Season: Predicting The Economic Impacts
am EDT Meteorological experts are forecasting an unusually active Atlantic hurricane season for 2024, attributing this uptick in activity to warmer ocean temperatures and favorable atmospheric...

Weekly jobless claims rise to highest level since August
New York CNN  —  First-time applications for unemployment benefits rose last week to 231,000, the highest level since August, in another sign that the white-hot labor market is starting to cool...

Jobless Claims Unexpectedly Jump To 2024 High As Labor Market Cracks Show
am EDT Topline Jobless claims rose far more than expected last week, according to government data released Thursday morning, bringing an unwelcome development for workers but exhibiting the signs...