The US dollar index rose 0.17% on Tuesday, the first trading day of 2024, as investors looked ahead to crucial economic data releases later this week. These include European inflation figures and the ...

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What the ‘Bad Vibes’ Story About the Economy Misses

If you can tell this story that says your anxiety is not misfounded, it is just founded in a version of America that was temporary, but that we can and should shore up, that we shouldn’t be focused on ...

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I thought most of us were going to die from the climate crisis. I was wrong

In an extract from her book Not the End of the World, data scientist Hannah Ritchie explains how her work taught her that there are more reasons for hope than despair about climate change ...

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UK economy will enter ‘grey gloom’ until polling day, economists say

Lower inflation will result in little perceptible improvement to living standards as growth stagnates in 2024, the FT’s annual survey predicts ...

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US economic data points to 'real momentum' for 2024, White House says

Higher consumer spending over the holiday season, real wage gains over the last nine months and a jump in consumer confidence point to a good start for 2024, said Jared Bernstein, chair of the White ...

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