Budget Battles
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Key Inflation Measure Falls to Lowest Level Since Early 2021
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Speaker Johnson Promises ‘Massive Reform’ of Healthcare if Trump Wins
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Harris’s Closing Argument: Let's Turn the Page on Trump
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At Incendiary NYC Rally, Trump Floats Another Tax Break
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Bad News for Harris as the Polls Tighten Up
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Trump’s Impossible Tax Cut
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Harris Economic Plan 'Vastly Superior,' 23 Nobel Prize Winners Say
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Here’s What Financial Advisers Think You Should Do With Your Portfolio Right Now
As the stock market continues to hit record highs, most financial advisers expect it to show more volatility in the second half of the year.
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Does Weak Inflation Mean the Economy Is Worse Than It Looks?
It wasn't supposed to be like this. The economic expansion is in its ninth calendar year. The unemployment rate has plummeted to 4.3 percent, down from more than 8 percent five years ago. Home prices...
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Here’s Why Trump Deserves Credit for the Stock Market Surge
By Liz PeekAs of Tuesday, the Dow Jones Industrial Average had scored record highs for nine days in a row; the gains are driving anti-Trumpers crazy. Though the president’s boasts are not always accurate,...
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Passive Investing Is Hot, but It Comes With This Big Risk
Passive investing, at least in the major index funds, is basically momentum investing writ large.
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Wall Street Has Never Been This Calm. Will It Suffer a Rude Awakening?
Lulled into a bliss by perceived dovishness from the Fed, investors are risking a rude awakening in two months' time.
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Women Are Better Investors Than Men. Here Are 3 Reasons Why
Female investors outperform males on average, and new report attributes the better performance to three traits more common in female investors.
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Is the Fed About to Wage War on the Rich?
For years, stocks have been driven relentlessly higher thanks to a single statement that summarized the aggressive central bank largesse since the eurozone crisis flared up in 2012: Policymakers...
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Is the Fed Fighting the Trump Rally?
The evidence is growing that the Federal Reserve’s policymakers are actively working to lean against the stock market's rise, a dramatic reversal from the years of policy support stock market bulls...
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Six Risks That Should Make Stock Market Bulls Nervous
The Wall Street bulls have had things all their own way over the past seven months, with the "Trumpflation" rally in industrial and bank stocks giving way to the tech rally among the "FAANGs" —...
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Is Capitalism Ailing? Why Bill Gross Says It’s Time to Cut Your Risks
By Jennifer Ablan, ReutersBond investor Bill Gross warned on Tuesday that investors should reduce their risk appetite, given the U.S. growth rate is stunted by secular forces "which monetary and even future fiscal policies...
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Why Boeing Is Using 3D Printers for Its New Starliner Space Taxis
By Alwyn Scott, ReutersBoeing Co has hired a small company to make about 600 3D-printed parts for its Starliner space taxis, meaning key components in the United States manned space program are being built with additive...
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The Stock Market Is Sending an Unusual Warning Signal
The Dow Jones Industrial Average has gracelessly fallen back below the 20,000 benchmark, resulting in what market chartists call an "island gap" formation that has them worried the losses could...
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Wall Street's Honeymoon With Trump Is Over
Wall Street's post-election honeymoon with President Donald Trump is devolving into typical marital bickering as his controversial immigration ban and plans to clamp down on H-1B skilled worker visas...
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Dow 20,000: Why the Celebration Might Not Last Long
The Dow Jones Industrial Average broke through the 20,000 mark for the first time ever on Wednesday, 64 days after reaching 19,000 and 78 days after President Donald Trump’s surprise election victory...
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Here’s How Inflation Could Suck the Wind Out of Trump’s Economy
Don't look now, but Federal Reserve officials could actually have a problem with price inflation on their hands — something they've been trying to encourage, via ultra-low interest rates and multiple...