Text size Michael M. Santiago / Getty Images It’s like the bear market never happened. And maybe just did that. The stock market had another good week, with the S&P 500 index ending 0.6% to 3372.85; the Dow Jones industrial average rose 497.54 points, or 1.8%, to 27,931.02; and the …
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Text size Michael M. Santiago / Getty Images It’s like the bear market never happened. And maybe just did that. The stock market had another good week, with the S&P 500 index ending 0.6% to 3372.85; the Dow Jones industrial average rose 497.54 points, or 1.8%, to 27,931.02; and the …
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Text size Chinese retail sales fell unexpectedly in July. Getty Images The S&P 500 closed Friday almost unchanged, as investors mixed data weighing on consumer confidence and retail sales against an upcoming trade meeting between Chinese and U.S. officials. While headline U.S. retail sales figures missed forecasts, with a monthly …
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Americans in August felt no better about the economy than about their own financial situation than they did in the previous month, reflecting broad concerns about the still-spreading coronavirus and the chance of a slow recovery, emerged from a new survey. The preliminary reading of the consumer sentiment survey in …
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Text size Three figures to start your day: Core Consumer Price Index rose 0.6% in July It is the fastest monthly increase since 1991. The CPI follows a course of consumer goods and is a frequently cited measure of inflation in the US. The core CPI excludes liquid food and …
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