Your Pulse On America: Live And Unfiltered
A hiring sign is displayed in the window of a Chipotle on August 22, 2024 in Alexandria, Virginia. Anna Rose Layden | Getty Images Job creation was weaker than expected in January, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Friday. Nonfarm payrolls rose by a seasonally adjusted 143,000 for the month, down from an upwardly revised…
A “Now Hiring” sign at a Chipotle restaurant in San Francisco, California, US, on Friday, Jan. 31, 2025. Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc. is scheduled to release earnings figures on February 4. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Private sector companies added more jobs than expected in January, furthering the case for a stable…
U.S. President Donald Trump looks on as he signs an executive order in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, U.S., Jan. 31, 2025. Carlos Barria | Reuters President Donald Trump agreed with the Federal Reserve for its decision last week to leave interest rates unchanged, an early pivot from his previous demand…
Customers shop for food at a grocery store on Jan. 15, 2025 in Chicago, Illinois. Scott Olson | Getty Images News | Getty Images Inflation closed out 2024 on a strong note, as a price gauge the Federal Reserve focuses on came in well above the central bank’s target. The personal consumption expenditures price index…
U.S. economic growth slowed a bit more than expected in the final three months of 2024, the Commerce Department reported Thursday. Gross domestic product, a measure of all the goods and services produced across the sprawling U.S. economy during the period, showed that the economy accelerated at a 2.3% annualized pace in the fourth quarter….
The Federal Reserve held its key interest rate in check Wednesday, reversing a recent trend of easing policy as it examines what is likely to be a bumpy political and economic landscape ahead. In a widely anticipated move, the central bank’s Federal Open Market Committee left unchanged its overnight borrowing rate in a range between…
Amid the uncertainty of fiscal policy and the persistence of inflation, respondents to the CNBC Fed Survey dialed back their expectations for interest rate cuts but still believe the central bank will ease this year. Among the 25 respondents, 65% see two rate cuts in 2025, equal to the number penciled in by Federal Reserve…
A view from the United States Department of the Treasury building in Washington DC, United States on December 30, 2024. The US Treasury Department was cyberattacked by a Chinese state-sponsored actor in early December. Celal Gunes | Anadolu | Getty Images The federal budget sank further into red ink during December, leaving the first fiscal…
A measure of wholesale prices increased less than expected in December, providing indication that pipeline inflation pressures eased to close the year though likely not enough to provoke another Federal Reserve interest rate cut anytime soon. The producer price index rose just 0.2% on the month, less than the 0.4% increase in November and below…
Anadolu | Anadolu | Getty Images LONDON — Britain’s competition watchdog on Tuesday opened an investigation into Google search services, marking its first major probe under the country’s tough new competition rules. The Competition and Markets Authority said that it’s looking to assess whether Google has “strategic market status” (SMS) under the new U.K. Digital…