After markets got off to a choppy start to October, Wall Street gets a pulse check on how businesses and consumers are feeling about the economic outlook. At a Glance Tuesday’s midterm elections will get the most eyeballs this week. Voters will determine who fills all 435 seats in the House and one-third of the…Read more
Fresh off last week’s Federal Reserve decision and mega-cap tech earning bonanza, the labor market gets an updated read. At a Glance Without question, the main event this week comes Friday when the July employment report drops. Nonfarm payroll growth, wage growth, and the unemployment rate will all be sliced and diced by economists and…Read more
If this were a normal week, we’d be talking about the Friday jobs report, the state of the economy, and the possibility that the Federal Reserve won’t lower interest rates again in December, especially in light of Chair Jerome Powell’s comments last week. But it’s not a normal week. The government has officially been shut…Read more
