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Why investors see Friday’s inflation report as a gut check of vibes on the economy

Stocks are back on the doorstep of record territory after a volatile month on Wall Street, but persistent inflation worries and souring consumer sentiment are keeping investors uneasy ahead of the Fed ... Read More

Morning Bid: Giving thanks for bad economic news

By Anna Szymanski, Editor in Charge, Reuters Open Interest What matters in U.S. and global markets today Weaker-than-expected U.S. economic data has upped bets for a Federal Reserve interest rate cut ... Read More

The Stock Market Sounds an Alarm Seen Just 1 Time in 25 Years as Investors Get Bad News About the Economy

U.S. stocks stumbled in early November as investors contemplated bad news about the economy, including the second-worst consumer sentiment reading in history. Meanwhile, the S&P 500 attained a forward ... Read More

The Stock Market Was Already Sounding an Alarm When Investors Got More Bad News About President Trump's Trade War

President Trump has claimed foreign countries will pay for the privilege of doing business in the United States, but data shows American companies and consumers are paying the tariffs. Trump recently ... Read More

Hiltzik: How bad is Trump's economy? Election results say it's very bad, and getting worse

It was Bill Clinton's campaign guru James Carville who codified the insight that the Democratic Party's electoral prospects were destined to rise as Americans' feelings of economic well-being slid: ... Read More

CBS News poll finds rising concern over government shutdown impact on economy, Americans personally

Anthony Salvanto, Ph.D., is CBS News' executive director of elections and surveys. He oversees the CBS News Poll and all surveys across topics and heads the CBS News Decision Desk that estimates ... Read More

Food-tariff rollbacks merely skim economic vibes

Import-duty reductions on some $40 bln of staples like bananas and beef smack of political unease. It's also a tacit concession that US shoppers, not exporters, are paying the price. Even if grocery ... Read More

Government shutdowns usually don’t hurt the economy. This time could be different

Government shutdowns can be political earthquakes that paralyze Washington, DC. But for the economy, shutdowns are often barely a blip. Whatever economic damage occurs during that time tends to be ... Read More

Jobs report revision flips Trump-era gain to loss — and it’s fueling bad poll numbers

Thursday’s jobs report added to mounting evidence that the U.S. labor market is losing steam. The September report, compiled by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), found that employment in July and ... Read More