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Markets · Oct 15, 2026 · 7 min read
The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 556.21 points, or 1.08 percent, to 52,177.69 on Thursday as investors rotated out of the AI…
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Macro · Oct 15, 2026 · 6 min read
11 of the 12 Federal Reserve Districts described price growth at a moderate pace or faster in the October Beige Book, published…
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Markets · Oct 14, 2026 · 6 min read
A hotter-than-expected September inflation reading sank the Nasdaq 1.88 percent and the S&P 500 1.11 percent on Wednesday, while the Dow closed…
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Macro · Oct 14, 2026 · 6 min read
US consumer prices rose 0.6 percent in September on a seasonally adjusted basis, after 0.4 percent in August, and the annual rate…
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Markets · Oct 14, 2026 · 8 min read
All five US indices closed lower on Tuesday, the S&P 500 by 0.02 percent, as the opening day of the bank reporting…
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Markets · Oct 12, 2026 · 6 min read
The Dow Jones Industrial Average was the only US index we track to close higher on Monday, up 0.38 percent at 51,850.55…
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Macro · Oct 10, 2026 · 6 min read
The US Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) issued Russia-related General License 135 on 9 October, authorizing transactions tied to the…
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Macro · Oct 10, 2026 · 7 min read
Real median family income in the United States rose 7 percent between the 2022 and 2025 surveys to 82,200 dollars, while real…
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Markets · Oct 9, 2026 · 7 min read
All five US indices we track closed higher on Friday, led by the Dow Jones Industrial Average's 0.83 percent gain to 51,654.95.…
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Macro · Oct 9, 2026 · 3 min read
Federal Reserve Governor Christopher Waller said on Thursday that he anticipates additional interest rate increases if the economic data continue to come…
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Markets · Oct 9, 2026 · 6 min read
Three of the five US indices we track closed lower on Thursday as chip stocks slid, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average…
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Macro · Oct 9, 2026 · 2 min read
Initial claims for US unemployment benefits fell by 2,000 to a seasonally adjusted 197,000 in the week ended 3 October, the Department…
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The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 556.21 points, or 1.08 percent, to 52,177.69 on Thursday as investors rotated out of the AI trade and into the rest of the board, on CNBC’s account of the session, with the Russell 2000 leading at 1.38 percent; the Nasdaq 100 fell 0.05 percent for a fourth straight decline…
11 of the 12 Federal Reserve Districts described price growth at a moderate pace or faster in the October Beige Book, published on 14 October, up from 9 in the edition published on 2 September, while the number reporting any growth in activity slipped from 10 to 9. The report, compiled this time by the…
A hotter-than-expected September inflation reading sank the Nasdaq 1.88 percent and the S&P 500 1.11 percent on Wednesday, while the Dow closed 0.09 percent lower, nearly flat, as money rotated into health care and consumer staples; the VIX jumped 10.48 percent and the chip index fell for a sixth straight session. All five indices fell…
US consumer prices rose 0.6 percent in September on a seasonally adjusted basis, after 0.4 percent in August, and the annual rate before seasonal adjustment climbed to 3.7 percent from 3.4 percent, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported on Wednesday at 12:30 GMT. No month since May, when the rate stood at 4.2 percent, has…
All five US indices closed lower on Tuesday, the S&P 500 by 0.02 percent, as the opening day of the bank reporting season ended with Citigroup down 5.6 percent despite topping profit estimates. The Nasdaq Composite fell 0.15 percent, the Nasdaq 100 0.31, the Dow 0.35 and the small-cap Russell 2000 0.40, ending the Dow’s…
The Dow Jones Industrial Average was the only US index we track to close higher on Monday, up 0.38 percent at 51,850.55 in a second straight gain. The Nasdaq 100 fell 0.71 percent, the small-cap Russell 2000 0.45, the Nasdaq Composite 0.44 and the S&P 500 closed 0.06 percent lower. The bond market was closed…
The US Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) issued Russia-related General License 135 on 9 October, authorizing transactions tied to the sale, delivery, offloading and importation of diesel fuel of Russian Federation origin until 04:01 GMT on 7 April 2027, a window of 180 days on our calculation. It arrives with the US average…
Real median family income in the United States rose 7 percent between the 2022 and 2025 surveys to 82,200 dollars, while real mean income fell 6 percent to 145,200 dollars, the Federal Reserve Board said on 9 October in the results of its triennial Survey of Consumer Finances, released at 14:00 GMT. In the report’s…
All five US indices we track closed higher on Friday, led by the Dow Jones Industrial Average’s 0.83 percent gain to 51,654.95. The Nasdaq Composite rose 0.64 percent, the S&P 500 0.59 percent, the Nasdaq 100 0.51 percent and the small-cap Russell 2000 0.46 percent. Nine of the fourteen maturities on the Treasury’s par yield…
Federal Reserve Governor Christopher Waller said on Thursday that he anticipates additional interest rate increases if the economic data continue to come in as expected, less than a month after the central bank raised rates for the first time following 9 months on hold. Speaking in Istanbul, he put core PCE inflation at 3 percent…