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  • AUSTIN, TEXAS – AUGUST 03: A person pumps gas at a Shell gas station on August 03, 2023 in Austin, Texas. Gas stations around the country have boosted prices by an average of 26 cents a gallon over the past month as irregular temperatures have made fuel-making more challenging due to the slowing of cooling processes needed to refine crude oil. (Photo by Brandon Bell/Getty Images)Finance

    Consumer inflation stayed flat in October thanks to cheaper gas, which slowed overall price increases

    By Christopher Rugaber and The Associated Press
  • Jerome PowellFinance

    Jerome Powell’s Federal Reserve is still on pause when it comes to rate hikes—for now

    By Christopher Rugaber and The Associated Press
  • Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell speaks at a meeting of the Economic Club of New YorkFinance

    Blockbuster economic data from last few weeks has made Fed’s rate announcement today that much harder: ‘The Fed has to talk tough’

    By Christopher Rugaber and The Associated Press
  • A construction worker checks his safety gear while working on a balcony on a high-rise residential building under construction in Arlington, VA., Monday, Oct. 16, 2023. On Tuesday, the government is releasing its latest quarterly report on wages and salaries. In the previous report, those labor costs grew more slowly, suggesting that employers were feeling less pressure to boost pay. (AP Photo/J. David Ake)Finance

    Hot jobs market continues to challenge Fed’s inflation fight as wages extended their rise over the summer

    By Christopher Rugaber and The Associated Press
  • Jerome PowellFinance

    The top 10% of U.S. households are $28 trillion richer since 2020—and economists are slowly waking up to the spending revolution

    By Christopher Rugaber, Anne D'Innocenzio, and others
  • Woman shopping in a Target store pushing a red cartFinance

    The Fed’s favorite inflation gauge hasn’t changed in two months, indicating a long slog ahead for the economy

    By Christopher Rugaber and The Associated Press
  • Jerome Powell at a press conference.Finance

    U.S. economy glows red hot with a 4.9% GDP reading for the third quarter

    By Christopher Rugaber and The Associated Press
  • Jerome PowellFinance

    Jerome Powell doesn’t sound convinced on inflation: ‘A few months of good data are only the beginning of what it will take’

    By Christopher Rugaber and The Associated Press
  • Germany, portrait of smiling family of father, mother, toddler boy and girl sitting on blue blanket in garden in front of modern design house with glass facadeFinance

    The massive inflation of housing and the stock market has made the average American household worth $193,000, Federal Reserve finds

    By Christopher Rugaber and The Associated Press
  • ShopperFinance

    Inflation barely budged in September—but it’s still a ways off from the Fed’s magic 2% target

    By Christopher Rugaber and The Associated Press
  • Philip Jefferson, vice chair of the Federal ReserveLeadership

    Fed may leave interest rates untouched at next meeting because surging bond yields are doing the bank’s work for it, two officials say

    By Christopher Rugaber and The Associated Press
  • Joe BidenFinance

    Economy roars with stronger than expected 336,000 jobs added in September

    By Christopher Rugaber and The Associated Press
  • Jerome PowellFinance

    The greatest threat to the Fed’s ‘soft landing’ is actually the Fed. It’s ‘higher for longer’ interest rates are driving up bond yields and cracking the economy

    By Christopher Rugaber and The Associated Press
  • Jerome Powell, Kevin SchreiberFinance

    Jerome Powell gets an earful on the ground from small business owners, including the head of Sweet Mama’s Mambo Sauce

    By Christopher Rugaber and The Associated Press
  • Jerome PowellFinance

    Inflation, still a ways off from the Fed’s 2% target, is barely budging as one economist sees a ‘golden path’ developing

    By Christopher Rugaber, Will Daniel, and others