July Inflation Comes In Mild, But Markets Now Bet on a Fed Rate Hike in September
Consumer prices rose only modestly in July, but the report did little to settle the bigger question hanging over markets...
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Eurozone Unemployment Holds at a Record Low as US Jobs Data Diverges Sharply
Two major economies published labor market data on the same day. They told almost opposite stories.Eurostat confirmed th...
US Job Growth Stalls at 57,000 in June as Unemployment Falls to a Year's Low of 4.2 Percent
The headline number looked reassuring. The details underneath it did not.The US economy added a seasonally adjusted 57,0...
Trump Threatens 100% Tariffs Against Any Country That Taxes American Tech Giants
The European Union's digital services tax debate has been grinding through committee rooms and summit communiqués for t...
Soccer's Global Divide: The G7 Supply Chain Fight and What the World Cup Is Teaching the World About Power
At the G7 summit in Évian-les-Bains this week, the conversations happening behind closed doors were in many ways as con...
Signed at Versailles: How Trump and Iran's Historic Peace Deal Is Already Changing the Price You Pay at the Pump
There is something deliberately symbolic about choosing Versailles for a peace signing. The Palace all gold ceilings and...
US Inflation Hits Three-Year High as Iran War Drives Up Energy and Food Costs
The connection between a war thousands of miles away and the price of filling your car with petrol or buying groceries i...