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FILE – A combine, bottom, unloads grain into a wagon, top, while harvesting soybeans, Oct. 10, 2023, at a farm near Allerton, Ill. On Wednesday, the Labor Department releases producer prices data for November. The producer price index is an indicator measuring inflation at the wholesale level, hitting businesses before they pass costs along to consumers. (AP Photo/Joshua A. Bickel, File)

Inflation may finally be easing—prices for wholesale goods were unchanged in November

By Paul Wiseman and The Associated Press

SAN RAFAEL, CALIFORNIA – NOVEMBER 03: A now hiring sign is posted in front of a U-Haul rental center on November 03, 2023 in San Rafael, California. According to a report by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, job growth slowed in October with a total of 150,000 new jobs added compared to analyst expectations of 180,000. The unemployment rate inched up to 3.9% from 3.8%. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

Job openings are at a 2-year low and unemployment aid at a 2-year high as the job cools

By Paul Wiseman, The Associated Press, and others

Workmen dig on a street in Waukegan, Ill., Monday, Nov. 6, 2023. On Wednesday, the Commerce Department issues its second of three estimates of how the U.S. economy performed in the third quarter of 2023. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)

The red-hot economy is growing even faster than we thought, with GDP surging 5.2% last quarter

By Paul Wiseman, The Associated Press, and others

WASHINGTON, DC – NOVEMBER 09: U.S. Federal Reserve Board Chairman Jerome Powell participates in a panel discussion on “Monetary Policy Challenges in a Global Economy” at the 24th Jacques Polak Annual Research Conference on November 8, 2023 at the IMF headquarters in Washington, DC. The IMP hosted the conference to discuss “Global Interdependence.” (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Global economy will sputter in 2024 because of inflation, interest rates and wars, OECD says

By Paul Wiseman and The Associated Press

A combine harvests corn, Tuesday, Oct. 10, 2023, at a farm near Allerton, Ill. On Wednesday, the Labor Department releases producer prices data for October. (AP Photo/Joshua A. Bickel)

Wholesale prices had their biggest drop in over 2 years, another sign inflation is fading away

By Paul Wiseman and The Associated Press

Economy

U.S. economy adds 150,000 jobs in October, likely down about 30,000 on auto strikes alone

By Paul Wiseman and The Associated Press

York, South Carolina, Now hiring, part time cooks sign posted outside Wing King Restaurant. (Photo by: Jeffrey Greenberg/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Job openings rose again and layoffs fell in September as the labor market stays distinctly worker-friendly

By Paul Wiseman and The Associated Press

MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIFORNIA – MAY 10: Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai delivers the keynote address at the Google I/O developers conference at Shoreline Amphitheatre on May 10, 2023 in Mountain View, California. Google held its annual Google I/O developers conference where they are expected to unveil the new Pixel Fold foldable smartphone. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

Google CEO Sundar Pichai swears under oath that $26 billion payment to device makers was partly to nudge them to make security upgrades and other improvements

By Paul Wiseman and The Associated Press

$An agreement to weed out global tax havens and force multinational corporations, among them Apple and Nike, to pay a minimum tax has been weakened by loopholes and will raise only a fraction of the revenue that was envisioned, a tax watchdog backed by the European Union has warned. (AP Photo/Alan Diaz, File)$

Minimum 15% global corporate tax has so many loopholes it will only generate half the revenue expected, report warns

By Paul Wiseman and The Associated Press

Jerome Powell

High interest rates didn’t exactly work in September as wholesale inflation rose at the fastest pace since April

By Paul Wiseman and The Associated Press

FILE – International Monetary Fund Director of the Research Department Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas speaks at a news conference during the World Bank/IMF Spring Meetings at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) headquarters in Washington, on April 11, 2023. The world economy is losing momentum in the face of higher interest rates, the ongoing war in Ukraine and widening geopolitical rifts, the International Monetary Fund warned Tuesday Oct. 10, 2023. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)

IMF cuts its 2024 growth forecast as world economy loses momentum in the face of high interest rates and Russia’s war in Ukraine

By Paul Wiseman, David McHugh, and others

File – Construction workers move equipment on Jan. 17, 2023, in New York. On Tuesday, the Labor Department reports on job openings and labor turnover for August. (AP Photo/Andres Kudacki, File)

‘Job openings aren’t telling the story the Fed wants to hear’ as JOLTS numbers show unexpected surge in August

By Paul Wiseman, The Associated Press, and others

John Schmidtlein

Apple used Microsoft as a ‘bargaining chip’ to make Google pony up billions for the search bar, exec testifies

By Paul Wiseman and The Associated Press

Apple iPhone

Apple exec seeking to defend against Google monopoly claims testifies there was no ‘valid alternative’ for search bar

By Paul Wiseman and The Associated Press

WASHINGTON, DC – SEPTEMBER 26: Apple Senior Vice President for Services Eddy Cue arrives at the Prettyman U.S. Court House on September 26, 2023 in Washington, DC. Cue is testifying in the antitrust trial to determine if Alphabet Inc.’s Google maintains a monopoly in the online search business which is expected to last into November. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Eddie Cue counters antitrust complaint over Apple’s search alliance with Google by saying there was no ‘valid alternative’

By Paul Wiseman and The Associated Press