Economic Indicators

The program, which is overseen by the U.S. Small Business Administration and the Treasury Department, reopened in January after Congress in December authorized its relaunch with $284 billion in funding.

With vaccine rollouts delayed in some places and new virus strains appearing, it is looking more likely that international travel could be stalled for years.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Friday skewered fossil-fuel billionaires who she said had profited off the surge in prices for fuel as a brutal winter storm across Texas left millions without power.

President Biden's coronavirus aid proposal would allocate nearly $130 billion toward reopening the nation's schools.

President Biden's top economic adviser Brian Deese downplayed a recent report from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office that found raising the minimum wage from $7.25 to $15 an hour by 2025 would cost the economy about 1.4 million jobs.

 U.S. home sales unexpectedly rose in January despite tight inventories boosting house prices.

A group of House Democrats is calling on the Internal Revenue Service to extend the tax-filing deadline by three months.

Traders will be watching for the latest existing home sales figures

As the coronavirus pandemic continues to rage across the country, states are struggling to mitigate the spread of the deadly virus whilst safely reopening their economies. 

While Democrats work on a $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief bill to get to President Biden by next month, there are rumblings that another multitrillion-dollar package could follow.

A deadly winter storm continues to leave nearly half a million Texans in the dark, including farmers who are heavily affected by the frigid weather.

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Duke Energy Corporation predicted Wednesday that conditions from the latest winter storm could result in nearly one million power outages, with some lasting over a span of days. 

The Labor Department released data showing how many Americans filed for unemployment benefits last week.

The Internal Revenue Service said this week that it has finished issuing stimulus checks to all of the eligible taxpayers that it has on file.

Entrepreneurs, intellectuals and presidential candidates have in recent years touted “universal basic income,” a cash stipend to everyone with no strings attached, as the answer to poverty, automation and the drudgery of work. It has never gotten off the ground in the U.S.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez criticized President Biden after he shot down a proposal from progressive Democrats to eliminate $50,000 in student loan debt.

U.S. retail sales soared in January as consumers boosted their spending. 

Reports on retail sales and wholesale inflation will be closely watched