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...The unemployment rate rose from 3.7 per cent to 3.9 per cent....
...While inflation has sharply fallen from its June 2022 high, the pace of consumer price increases rose 3.7 per cent year on year in August, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics....
...Japan’s Topix and Hong Kong’s Hang Seng index both rose about 0.8 per cent....
...“You can’t make it up: Hours after this terrible inflation report, the White House is hosting an ‘inflation reduction’ celebration,” Mitch McConnell, the Senate minority leader, wrote on Twitter....
...The National Shooting Sports Foundation, the firearm industry trade association, says that gun sales to African Americans rose 58 per cent in 2020 over the previous year — the biggest increase in any demographic...
...He will be joined by the Senate’s top Republican Mitch McConnell in a rare display of bipartisanship....
...Republicans oppose debt cancellation, with the party’s Senate leader Mitch McConnell calling it “a giant slap in the face to every family who sacrificed to save for college”....
...Lucy FisherFor me this week, I have to say it has been the spectacular death, as we understand it, of Yevgeny Prigozhin, the kerbside hot dog seller who rose to become the Kremlin caterer and then, of course...
...So said Mitch McConnell, the senior Senate Republican just minutes after he voted to acquit the former president in his impeachment trial for that very act....
...But the yield fell back to 1.52 per cent after McConnell’s statement, down 0.01 percentage points for the day....
...Thomas’s network of former Supreme Court clerks and his closest friends rose to top positions in the Trump administration....
...Economic data There are indications that temporary factors inflated US jobless claims, which rose for three weeks in September....
...They rose 10.5 per cent in June from the previous month....
...I called Tye to ask him about the book’s assertion that American autocrats “fell even faster than they rose, once America saw through them and reclaimed its better self”....
...Federal Reserve economists wrote in a 2017 paper that yields on all Treasuries rose between 0.04 and 0.08 percentage points ahead of the two debt ceiling impasses, before falling upon resolution....
...And so another day has gone by with an impasse and they need to get together,” Mr McConnell told the Fox News channel....
...New jobless claims rose to 1.42m seasonally adjusted last week, compared with 1.31m a week earlier, following Covid-19 outbreaks in parts of the US south and west....
...But she is just the sort of person Mr McConnell would try to block....
...Global stock indices rose to new record highs on Monday on hopes the Biden administration would get its stimulus package through Congress....
...Mitch McConnell, the Republican Senate majority leader, had urged his caucus to back the bill....
...Japan’s benchmark Topix added 1.7 per cent, while Hong Kong’s Hang Seng and Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 rose 1 per cent and 0.5 per cent, respectively....
...Republican senate majority leader Mitch McConnell said on Thursday that compromise was “within reach”....
...Japan’s Topix climbed 0.5 per cent, Hong Kong’s Hang Seng was up 0.9 per cent and South Korea’s Kospi 200 rose 0.3 per cent....
...(FT) China’s industrial production and retail sales rose in November, as crucial indicators of activity rose at their fastest rates this year....
...The Trump administration is in talks with Congress to secure an additional $250bn to fund loans for small businesses hit by the coronavirus pandemic, as pressure rose for more fiscal stimulus to help the...
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