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US equities and stocks plunged on Friday, with the Nasdaq marking its worst month since October 2008 and the S&P notching its worst month since March 2020 at the onset of the Covid pandemic.The tech-heavy Nasdaq fell 4.2% on Friday, dragged down by Amazon (AMZN), which dropped nearly 15% after …

The Fed’s favorite inflation gauge slowed in March, in its first retreat in more than one year, according to a report issued Friday in the run-up to next week’s meeting of the policy-setting Federal Open Market Committee.PCE data gives a reading of the Personal Consumption Expenditures Price Index that excludes …

The Chicago Business Barometer, also known as the Chicago PMI, fell to 56.4 in April from 62.9 in the prior month. Economists had expected little change, with analysts polled by the Wall Street Journal forecasting a 62 reading. The index is 14.4 points below it’s reading from April 2021. The …

According to the final version of the University of Michigan’s Consumer Sentiment survey, the headline Consumer Sentiment Index for April came in at 65.2, a tad below the flash estimate released earlier in the month of 65.7. Consumer exuberance can translate into greater spending and faster economic growth, implying a …

Core PCE inflation fell a little more than expected in March, but the Employment Cost Index jumped in Q1. The latest Personal Income and Spending figures for March will instill confidence about the underlying strength of the US economy. Annual inflation in the US fell to 5.2% in March according …

The US economy contracted at an annualized rate of 1.4% during the first quarter, data showed on Thursday. According to analysts from TD Securities, GDP growth was impacted by large setbacks in net exports and inventories. They point out that the details of the report were actually much stronger than …

Recession is generally defined by two consecutive quarters of economic shrinking. The US economy squeezed by 1.4% in the first quarter of 2022, so it would only take another one to have an official downturn. Not so fast – not a recession, nor the dollar. The US economy grew by …

The annualized pace of US real GDP growth in Q1 2022 came in at a negative 1.4%, according to data released by the US Bureau of Economic Analysis on Thursday. That was a big miss on expectations that the economy had grown at an annualized pace of 1.4% in Q1 …

Concerns over inflation are helping tamp down Americans’ confidence in the economy, according to a new poll released on Wednesday.A new Gallup poll shows that Americans have low levels of confidence in the U.S. economy, with just 2 percent of respondents rating the current economic conditions as excellent and only …

US Pending Home Sales fell by 1.2% MoM in March, less than the expected 1.6% drop, after sales fell 4.0% in February, the latest figures from the National Association of Realtors showed on Wednesday. That meant the US Pending Home Sales index fell to 103.7 in March, from 105.0 a …