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Financial News for the Week of April 15th, 2022
FINANCIAL NEWS HIGHLIGHTS OF THE WEEK Overall inflation as measured by the CPI accelerated to 8.5% year-over-year (y/y) in March, marking yet another multi-decade high. Core inflation, which excludes food and energy, ticked up a tenth of a…
Financial News for the Week of April 8th, 2022
FINANCIAL NEWS HIGHLIGHTS OF THE WEEK The first full week of the second quarter was sparse on economic data. The service sector showed signs of modest acceleration, while vehicle sales declined for the second consecutive month in March. The…
Financial News for the Week of April 1st, 2022
FINANCIAL NEWS HIGHLIGHTS OF THE WEEK Another solid jobs report showed that the U.S. economy added 431k jobs in March. Wage growth picked up and the unemployment rate fell 0.2 percentage points to 3.6%. President Biden presented a $5.8 trillion…