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Stock-market investors crowded the exits on Thursday, sending major stock indexes sharply lower a day ahead of another eagerly anticipated consumer-price index reading. Recent history may offer a clue. “While…

Text size The latest jobs numbers, released Friday, show a…

U.S. stock futures traded mixed on Wednesday, with signs that technology stocks will come under pressure again as markets await a decision by the Federal Open Market Committee later. Retail sales and other data is…

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Investors will be focusing their attention on the Federal Reserve’s meeting next week, searching for details on a potentially hawkish pivot in monetary policy in the face of high inflation.Fed Chair Jerome Powell — whose hawkish signal…

The Federal Reserve signaled it would begin steadily raising interest rates in mid-March, its latest move toward removing stimulus to bring down inflation.Fed Chairman Jerome Powell said Wednesday that the…

Economist Lawrence H. Summers never joined Team Transitory, or the economists, investment strategists, and members of the Federal Reserve who thought inflation would be a temporary phenomenon. Instead, he warned early and often that…

U.S. stocks turned higher Tuesday morning, with tech-related shares extending a bounce from the previous session, as investors appeared to take testimony by Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell in stride as they…

The stock market was slipping Friday, after the June employment report revealed that the U.S. economy added more jobs than expected, spurring bets of a more hawkish Federal Reserve. The U.S. added 372,000 jobs for the month of June,…