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IN NORMAL TIMES, THE FIRST Friday of the month brings a routine tranche of government data known as the monthly jobs report. The markets react, the politicians preen, and most Americans go about their

If the most prized commodity in the 20th century was oil, in the 21st it is data. It is both our humdrum reality and our anxious obsession. It tracks everything from which online advertisements we are

When bad news is just bad news not good news for markets

“We’ll have a majority [on the Federal Reserve Board] very shortly… People are paying too high an interest rate… We have to get the rates down a little bit,” says Donald Trump. The US president isn’t

Issue of the week: the battle for the ...

There are concerns legal case against Lisa Cook is politically-motivated