If the U.S. economy were a car, President Donald Trump would be driving with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent in the passenger seat helping to navigate. Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell? He’d be in ...

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Wednesday’s report from the Labor Department showed that consumer prices rose 2.5% in August from a year earlier, down from 2.9% in July. It was the fifth-straight-annual drop and the smallest since ...

Major stock indices plunged Wednesday after the Federal Reserve signaled a slower pace of interest rate cuts for 2025 than previously forecast, renewing concerns about how fast inflation would fall.