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  • A woman and a man sit at a table in a workplace setting, both holding stacks of money. The woman looks at the man's larger stack of cash with a subtle expression of concern, while the man glances at her, representing the concept of the gender pay gap and unequal earnings between men and womenFinance

    The gender pay gap just grew for the first time in decades

    By Christopher Rugaber and The Associated Press
  • Jerome Powell, chairman of the US Federal ReserveFinance

    U.S. economy adds 142,000 jobs in August and unemployment rate ticks down to 4.2 per cent

    By Christopher Rugaber and The Associated Press
  • SAN FRANCISCO, CA – JUNE 14: A sign is posted on the window a closed business on June 14, 2023 in San Francisco, California. San Francisco’s downtown continues to struggle with keeping retail and commercial properties rented following the COVID-19 pandemic, and lags behind all major cities in the U.S. and Canada. Westfield has stopped making payments on a $558 million loan for their mall at 865 Market St. weeks after their anchor tenant Nordstrom announced plans to pull out of the mall. Downtown San Francisco has an estimated 18.4 million square feet of available real estate. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)Finance

    Job openings plunged this summer and hiring is worse now than before the pandemic

    By Christopher Rugaber, Irina Ivanova, and others
  • FILE – A woman buys eggs at a Walmart Superstore in Secaucus, New Jersey, July 11, 2024. (AP Photo/Eduardo Munoz Alvarez, File)Finance

    The Fed is predicting a ‘soft landing’ but Americans aren’t ready to celebrate

    By Christopher Rugaber and The Associated Press
  • Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome PowellFinance

    Jerome Powell signals ‘the time has come’ to cut U.S. interest rates

    By Christopher Rugaber and The Associated Press
  • Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome PowellFinance

    Jerome Powell to hint at rate cuts as inflation subsides, but job market challenges emerge

    By Christopher Rugaber and The Associated Press
  • Kamala HarrisPolitics

    Kamala Harris calls for a ban on price-gouging to battle high grocery costs

    By Christopher Rugaber and The Associated Press
  • Woman carrying shopping bagsRetail

    Shoppers rushed back to stores last month, quashing fears of consumer pullback

    By Christopher Rugaber, Anne D'Innocenzio, and others
  • Man looking at eggs in grocery storeFinance

    Inflation drops to 3-year low, sealing the deal for Fed to cut rates in September

    By Christopher Rugaber and The Associated Press
  • young woman shoppingFinance

    Penny-pinching consumers are slaying inflation, economists say

    By Christopher Rugaber and The Associated Press
  • File – A shopper peruses cheese offerings at a Target store on Oct. 4, 2023, in Sheridan, Colo. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski, File)Finance

    Americans are refusing to keep paying high prices and that may be killing the U.S. inflation spike

    By Christopher Rugaber and The Associated Press
  • Jerome PowellFinance

    Fed chair Powell says a rate cut is close, but we’re ‘not quite’ there yet

    By Christopher Rugaber and The Associated Press
  • FILE – The Federal Reserve is seen in Washington, on Nov. 16, 2020. The Federal Reserve is expected to signal this week that it will likely reduce borrowing costs as soon as September 2024. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)Finance

    Fed officials expected to cut rates only once in 2024 but now the market is betting on 3 cuts this year

    By Christopher Rugaber and The Associated Press
  • woman shopping for clothingFinance

    The worst streak of inflation in 4 decades looks like it’s finally nearing an end

    By Christopher Rugaber and The Associated Press
  • Jerome PowellFinance

    Inflation is slowing at ‘a pretty good pace,’ Fed’s Powell says

    By Christopher Rugaber and The Associated Press