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Jobs Gains Surge, Troubling News for the Federal Reserve

Federal Reserve officials are likely to cast a wary eye on September jobs data, which showed that employers both hired…

How to Protect Your Retirement From Nagging Inflation

Social Security’s cost of living adjustment, coming next week, helps retirees keep up with their bills, but there are other…

A Mega-Deal May Await in the Oil Patch

Exxon Mobil is reportedly in talks to buy Pioneer Natural Resources, a major shale driller, in what would be the…

How strikes are (and aren’t) reflected in the jobs report.

Three of the country’s major automakers are facing an expanding strike that started on Sept. 15. Hollywood producers and screenwriters…

Rates Are Jumping on Wall Street. What Will It Do to Housing and the Economy?

A run-up in longer-term interest rates could help the Federal Reserve get the economic cool-down it wants — but it…

Why Are Investors So Jittery?

Stocks are sliding, government bond yields are soaring, and investors are reacting strongly to scraps of economic information that they…

North Carolina Radio Station Won’t Ban Met Opera Broadcasts After All

The station, which had called the Met’s newer operas unsuitable because of their “difficult music” and “adult themes and harsh…

S.E.C. Sues Elon Musk to Compel Him to Testify on Twitter Purchase

The agency said Mr. Musk was subpoenaed to testify last month about his purchases of Twitter’s stock last year, but…

Higher Rates Stoke a Growing Chorus of Deficit Concerns

A long period of higher interest rates would make the government’s large debt pile costly, a possibility that is fueling…

The Remaking of The Wall Street Journal

Last month, Emma Tucker, the new editor in chief of The Wall Street Journal, gathered the newsroom to share a…

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