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No rate cuts, no problem.Investors are revisiting an old playbook as mega-cap tech stocks came back in favor last week. The appetite for growth returned during Thursday’s trading action, despite another hot inflation report that puts…

by Will Kessler   The U.S. added 336,000 nonfarm payroll jobs in September as the unemployment rate remained at 3.8%, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) data released Friday. Economists had anticipated that the country would…

The Federal Reserve’s Open Market Committee will meet again later this month. The popular belief is that the Fed will not raise interest rates. But the latest economic data indicates a rate hike is…

by Brett Rowland   The median existing-home price for all housing types declined 3.1% in May from the same month in the prior year – the biggest drop in more than a decade. The national median existing-home price was $396,100 in May,…

by Robert Romano   Gross interest owed on the $31.4 trillion national debt — that is, interest owed on both the $24.9 trillion publicly traded debt and the $6.7 trillion debt in the Social Security, Medicare and other trust funds —…

The Federal Reserve hiked its target federal-funds interest rate by a quarter of a percentage point Wednesday, the ninth in a series of hikes that started in March 2022. The hike brings the Fed’s…

by Jason Cohen   The Federal Reserve hiked its target federal-funds interest rate by a quarter of a percentage point Wednesday, the ninth in a series of hikes that started in March 2022. The hike brings Fed’s target rate to a range…

Another week without World War III kicking off in full makes this a pretty good week. Forget about the bank failures, the collapsing American prestige as China plays peacemaker in the Persian Gulf, the southern border chaos…

The nation needs the Congressional investigations, but they are, I caution again, predictably un-strategic, even awkward. Republicans stupidly sold the hearings as conclusive (thus inorganic), accordingly seen as partisan…

A majority of voters believe President Joe Biden has a conflict of interest when responding to aggressive actions by China, according to a recent poll. Of 1,082 respondents, 57.2% believe the Biden family’s personal business…