U.S. stocks are coasting toward the finish of Wall Street’s latest winning month on Tuesday, as financial markets give a collective yawn for the potential shutdown of the U.S. federal government that’s looming.
When it comes to money many Americans are choosing to invest in the stock market.
Democratic and Republican congressional leaders are heading to the White House for a meeting with President Donald Trump on Monday in a late effort to avoid a government shutdown, but both sides have shown hardly any willingness to budge from their entrenched positions.
The Census Bureau plans to use U.S. postal workers as census takers in at least two locations during field tests next year for the 2030 census, which will determine political power and federal funding.
A government shutdown could cause big losses for the U.S. travel economy.
The Federal Reserve’s favored inflation gauge accelerated slightly in August from a year earlier.
U.S. stocks are rising Friday and clawing back some of their losses from earlier in the week after a report showed that inflation is behaving roughly as economists expected, even if it’s still high.
An uptick in consumer spending helped the U.S. economy expand at a surprising 3.8% from April through June, the government reported in a dramatic upgrade of its previous estimate of second-quarter growth.
Tariffs are taking a long-term toll on your checkbook.
U.S. stock indexes are drifting lower on Wednesday as Wall Street takes a pause from what seemed like a relentless rally.
