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Measures of U.S. inflation barely declined in September, evidence that consumer price increases are grinding lower at a gradual pace

The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits was unchanged last week, remaining at historically low levels in another sign that the U.S. job market remains strong in the face of higher interest rates

The Treasury Department has imposed its first set of sanctions on two companies that shipped Russian oil in violation of a multinational price cap

The acting Social Security commissioner says a 3_2% increase in benefits next year “will help millions of people keep up with expenses."

The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits was unchanged last week, remaining at historically low levels in another sign that the U.S. job market remains strong in the face of higher interest rates

The Nevada Supreme Court plans to soon hear the NFL’s appeal of a crucial ruling denying a request to move former Las Vegas Raiders coach Jon Gruden’s lawsuit against the league into closed-door arbitration

By Humeyra Pamuk and Daphne Psaledakis

Washington Examiner columnist Tiana Lowe Doescher and FOX Business Lydia Hu join Making Money host Charles Payne to discuss the impact of the housing crisis on young people.

Washington Post on the role of WhatsApp and Facebook in aiding the communal hatred campaign of the BJP-led ruling government. He also cited that the article details how this vile, communally divisive propaganda is carried out using WhatsApp groups by BJP members and supporters.

By Humeyra Pamuk

NATO will hold a major nuclear exercise next week, the alliance's chief said Thursday, in an announcement that came after Russia warned it would pull out of a global nuclear test ban agreement. NATO's «Steadfast Noon» exercise is held annually and runs for about a week. It involves fighter jets capable of carrying nuclear warheads but does not involve any live bombs.

By Timothy Gardner and Daphne Psaledakis

By Jonathan Landay

WASHINGTON (Reuters) — U.S. consumer prices increased in September amid higher costs for rent and gasoline, but underlying inflation is slowing, supporting financial market expectations that the Federal Reserve would not raise interest rates next month.

U.S. wholesale prices rose last month at the fastest pace since April, suggesting that inflationary pressures remain despite a year and a half of higher interest rates

A Democrat on the US Securities and Exchange Commission is warning that syndicated loans sold widely to investors are stoking risks to the broader financial system.

UBS Private Wealth Management financial adviser Sarah Ponczek and Lou Basenese discuss how rising interest rates and inflation are impacting markets on 'Mornings with Maria.'

WASHINGTON, — Salman Rushdie, the Indian-born novelist who spent years in hiding after Iran urged Muslims to kill him because of his writing, will publish a memoir on his 2022 stabbing in New York, book publisher Penguin Random House said on Wednesday. Rushdie's new memoir, 'Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder', will be published on April 16, 2024. «This was a necessary book for me to write: a way to take charge of what happened, and to answer violence with art,» Rushdie, whose public appearances have been limited since last year's attack, said in a statement released by the publisher. Rushdie, 76, was awarded the 'Freedom to Publish' award by the British Book Awards in May. An attack onstage in Aug. 2022, during a lecture in New York state left the British author blind in one eye and affected the use of one of his hands.

Social Security's cost-of-living increase for 2024 will be announced Thursday

U.S. wholesale prices rose last month at the fastest pace since April, suggesting that inflationary pressures remain despite a year and a half of higher interest rates

The Washington Post plans to cut 240 jobs through the offering of voluntary buyouts in the coming weeks