Tag: Economic Performance/Indicators

“Consumer borrowing costs in the U.S. have skyrocketed, but the CPI doesn’t count this. ” There are widely divergent perspectives ...

The numbers: Initial jobless benefit claims rose by 13,000 to 215,000 in the week ended Feb. 24, the U.S. Labor ...

Investors will have to wait until at least July for those widely expected interest-rate cuts, according to one Federal Reserve ...

Story developing. Stay tuned for updates here. The numbers: The number of Americans who applied for unemployment benefits in early ...

Bond yields fell on Thursday as traders prepared for a big batch of U.S. economic data.What’s happening The yield on ...

The British pound and government bond yields fell, while stocks rose, after a report showing steady U.K. inflation raised hopes ...

The “junk spread” is abnormally low right now, and that elevates the risk of an imminent recession. The junk spread ...

U.S. trade deficit rises 0.5% in December to $62.2 billion, 2023 trade gap is smallest in 3 years

While the U.S. stock market has been pricing in a “soft-landing” scenario for the economy, a blowout January jobs report, ...

As U.S. stocks flirt with new highs and recession seems less and less likely, the hard-core stock-market bears continue to ...