• August 11, 2017
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St. Louis Fed President James Bullard said Wednesday that Fed officials have been surprised by the low inflation readings this year. He and a minority of other Fed officials want the Fed to pause from its gradual rate hikes until inflation moves higher. Fed officials had been confident that inflation would hit the 2% target

• August 11, 2017
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U.S. consumer prices remained soft for the fifth straight month in July, raising more questions about whether inflation will eventually rise to hit the Federal Reserve’s 2% annual rate target. The consumer price index rose a seasonally adjusted 0.1% in July, the Labor Department said Friday. Food prices rose 0.2% in July while energy prices

• August 10, 2017
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Treasury yields lost further ground on Wednesday, as a weak reading for wholesale inflation clouded the third-quarter economic outlook and the picture for one more rate hike this year, which can be bearish on bonds.

• August 10, 2017
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Lack of price pressure in the pipeline saw U.S. wholesale prices declined in July for the first time in almost a year, further evidence of soft inflation that is bedeviling the Federal Reserve. The producer price index fell 0.1 in July, the Labor Department said Thursday, the first drop since last August. The core rate, which

• August 4, 2017
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The trade deficit shrank nearly 6% in June to an eight-month low, but the U.S. is still on track to post a bigger gap in 2017 than it did the year before. The deficit fell to $43.6 billion in June from $46.4 billion in May, the Commerce Department said Friday. Economists had forecast a $44

• August 4, 2017
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The U.S. created 209,000 new jobs in July, easily beating Wall Street forecasts and showing the labor market still has plenty of muscle more than eight years into a expansion. Economists had predicted a 175,000 increase in nonfarm jobs. The unemployment rate slipped to 4.3% from 4.4%, retouching a 16-year low. Average wages climbed 0.3%

• July 29, 2022
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The Federal Reserve’s preferred inflation gauge accelerated more than expected in June, according to new data released on Friday, a worrisome sign as central bankers try to combat higher prices with the steepest interest rate hikes in decades. The personal consumption expenditures index showed that core prices, which strips out the more volatile measurements of

• July 28, 2022
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The U.S. economy shrank in the spring for the second consecutive quarter, meeting the criteria for a so-called technical recession as raging inflation and higher interest rates forced consumers and businesses to pull back on spending. Gross domestic product, the broadest measure of goods and services produced across the economy, shrank by 0.9% on an