NEW YORK—Stocks rallied Friday to send Wall Street to its best day in six weeks. The S&P 500 rose 1.6 percent to cap its first winning week in the last four as relaxing yields in the bond market took some pressure off Wall Street. It’s found some stability following a swift rise and fall to…
US 4th-Quarter Labor Costs Revised Higher; Productivity Growth Lowered
WASHINGTON—U.S. labor costs grew faster than initially thought in the fourth quarter, though the pace has slowed from the prior quarters. Unit labor costs—the price of labor per single unit of output—accelerated at a 3.2 percent annualized rate last quarter, the Labor Department said on Thursday. That was revised up from the 1.1 percent pace…
Eurozone Recovery Gathers Pace, Allays Fears of Recession: PMI
LONDON—The recovery in eurozone business activity gathered pace last month as growth accelerated in the bloc’s dominant services industry, a survey showed, providing the latest piece of evidence suggesting the currency union will avoid a recession. S&P Global’s Composite Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI), seen as a good barometer of overall economic health, climbed to an…
Wall Street Opens Higher as Yields Pull Back
Wall Street’s main indexes opened higher on Friday as Treasury yields took a breather from a week-long rally sparked by worries that the Federal Reserve would keep interest rates higher for longer. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 72.76 points, or 0.22 percent, at the open to 33,076.33. The S&P 500 opened higher by 16.67…
Dollar Heads for 1st Weekly Loss in 5, Crypto Falls
LONDON—The U.S. dollar eased from a 2–1/2-month high versus the yen on Friday and looked set for its first weekly loss against major peers since January as traders tried to gauge the path for Federal Reserve policy. The yen, which is particularly sensitive to U.S.–Japanese long-term interest rate differentials, looked set to halt its six-week…
Oil Prices Stable, Heading for Weekly Gain
March 3, 2023
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LONDON—Oil prices held steady on Friday, poised to register a weekly gain as renewed optimism on China’s demand recovery overrode recession worries over growing U.S. crude inventories and tightening monetary policy in Europe. Brent crude futures edged up by 4 cents, or 0.05 percent, to $84.79 a barrel by 0936 GMT. U.S. West Texas Intermediate…
Global Stocks Follow Wall Street Higher on Interest Rate Hopes
March 3, 2023
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BEIJING—Global stock markets advanced Friday after a Federal Reserve official raised hopes the U.S. central bank might not step up its anti-inflation fight as much as feared. London, Shanghai, Frankfurt, and Tokyo gained. Oil prices edged higher. Wall Street rose Thursday for the first time in three days after the president of the Federal Reserve…
Closing Prices for Crude Oil, Gold and Other Commodities (Mar. 2)
March 2, 2023
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Benchmark U.S. crude oil for April delivery rose 47 cents to $78.16 a barrel Thursday. Brent crude for May delivery rose 44 cents to $84.75 a barrel. Wholesale gasoline for April delivery rose 3 cents to $2.70 a gallon. April heating oil was unchanged at $2.87 a gallon. April natural gas fell 4 cents to…
PREMIERING 7:30PM ET: Jeffrey Tucker: $6 Trillion Created Unprecedented Inflation, All to Feed the ‘Lockdown Machine’
March 2, 2023
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“While we slept—while we thought the world was just fine—what was actually happening was a tremendous distortion of the production structures.” I sit down with Jeffrey Tucker, senior economics columnist for The Epoch Times and founder and president of The Brownstone Institute. Tucker says labor supply problems are approaching catastrophic levels with historically low worker-to-population…
PREMIERING NOW: Jeffrey Tucker: $6 Trillion Created Unprecedented Inflation, All to Feed the ‘Lockdown Machine’
March 2, 2023
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“While we slept—while we thought the world was just fine—what was actually happening was a tremendous distortion of the production structures.” I sit down with Jeffrey Tucker, senior economics columnist for The Epoch Times and founder and president of The Brownstone Institute. Tucker says labor supply problems are approaching catastrophic levels with historically low worker-to-population…
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