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Stocks rally, driving Wall Street toward rare winning week

The benchmark index also ended the week 6.4% higher, erasing the brutal loss it took a week earlier.

US markets higher as Fed chief addresses Congress again

The S&P 500 is up 0.6 percent shortly after the open. The Dow Jones Industrial Average and Nasdaq are also rising.

The stock market has tumbled quickly, and longtime savers are at a loss

Tough times on Wall Street have people near retirement or readying for college tuition checks wondering what to do next.

Powell sees ongoing fed rate hikes needed to tame hot inflation

The federal reserve chair added that policy makers must be “nimble” as various shocks buffet the world’s largest economy.

Wall Street ends broadly higher after sharp losses last week
The S&P 500 rose 2.4 percent, thought it’s still 21.5 percent below the record high it set in January.

Biden says US recession avoidable after call with ex-treasury secretary Larry Summers
The Federal Reserve accelerated its monetary-tightening campaign last week, and the move increased the odds of a recession that would only compound the president's political troubles.

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Biden says he’s considering a gasoline tax holiday

The administration is increasingly looking for ways to spare Americans from higher prices at the pump, which began to climb last year and surged after Russia invaded Ukraine in February.

Larry Edelman

The Fed will put the economy in a coma if that’s what’s needed to whip inflation

Central bank chairman Jerome Powell intends to break the back of inflation by any means necessary.

Larry Summers sees risk of US unemployment needing to climb toward 6 percent

The former treasury secretary renewed his criticism of Federal Reserve economic forecasts, saying that the US unemployment rate would need to increase by much more than policy makers anticipate to quell inflation.

Wall Street closes worst week since 2020 with slight gain

The S&P 500 rose 8.07 points, or 0.2 percent, after waffling between modest losses and gains for most of the day.

Larry Edelman

Stocks resume selloff as recessions fears mount

A day after the Federal Reserve boosted interests, investors came to grips with the growing possibility that the central bank’s anti-inflation campaign could tip the economy into a recession.

Wall Street stumbles 3.3 percent as fears of a recession grow

The renewed selling came a day after a brief reprieve for markets when the Federal Reserve delivered a huge interest rate increase in its effort to fight back inflation.

Larry Edelman | commentary

Federal Reserve escalates inflation fight with biggest rate hike since 1994

The central bank raised its benchmark rate by three-quarters of a percentage point and said increases would continue until inflation was under control.

Federal Reserve attacks inflation with its largest rate hike since 1994

The central bank is ramping up its drive to tighten credit and slow growth with inflation having reached a four-decade high of 8.6 percent.