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Stock futures rose Wednesday ahead of the release of the consumer price index for March. Economists forecast the monthly pace of inflation was 0.3% last month, down from 0.4% in February. Nvidia was down…

Shares of Robinhood Markets were up 12% to $19.28 after the online-trading company said trading volumes during February rose to $80.9 billion, up 36% from January and 41% from February 2023. Crypto…

President Joe Biden needs a course correction, or the Democrats face disaster in the midterm elections. That’s tough with a cabinet and White House staff formed to appease woke progressives. America’s hard…

Home prices are rising across the country as Americans rush to purchase houses, driven in part by a newfound ability to work remotely as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.But where are they set to rise the most? Not in the Sun Belt, by…

Jobless claims reached their lowest level of the pandemic last week as stronger hiring and consumer spending drive a U.S. economic revival. Worker filings for unemployment benefits, a proxy for layoffs, fell to…

U.S. stocks fell on Tuesday as investors digested testimony by Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell and Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen about the U.S. economy. The S&P…

Here’s what we’re watching ahead of Thursday’s opening bell. —U.S. stock futures fell a day after the Federal Reserve’s outlook and policy statement lifted both the Dow and the S&P 500 to records.…

“If we are going to be a society that insists we have to pull ourselves up by our bootstraps, then we can’t refuse to give people the bootstraps they need to pull themselves up,” Amy Jo Hutchison of West Virginia said at a…

Stock futures slipped Thursday, signaling that technology shares will lead declines for major indexes as investors awaited earnings and assessed fresh data on the U.S. labor market. Futures on the S&P 500 edged…