Economic Indicators

Warren, meanwhile, has been fending off mounting criticism from the business community.

Consumers are driving the U.S. economy, Fed chair says.

Investors staying the course are being rewarded with fatter retirement accounts.

The ongoing trade war is taking a toll on Chinese production, services and jobs.

U.S. household debt reached new record in the third quarter, near $14 trillion.

In the U.S., the total labor force is expanding at a rate of roughly 0.5 percent, compared to about 2.5 percent in the 1960s.

Powell reiterated what he said during the Fed's two-day meeting in October: The current level on its benchmark interest rate will likely remain "appropriate."

The survey covers over 75 percent of all U.S. retail residential mortgage applications and has been conducted weekly since 1990.

Across the country, unemployment is hovering at 3.6 percent, near a five-decade low.

Passage of the agreement is a priority for the Trump administration, which promised to buoy the U.S. economy by improving a variety of international trade deals.

'Confidence is very high,' Dimon says.

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He also noted that hundreds of thousands of African American children have been lifted out of poverty.

There are now 2,101 billionaires globally, according to UBS’s 2019 Billionaire Insights report.

Stocks and bonds are signaling the US may sidestep a slowdown.

Some of those companies engaged in "human rights abuse and a wide-range of military-related activities," the authors wrote.

In the continent's most advanced economies, growth dropped by 0.1 percentage point to 1.3 percent in 2019.

System will have to undergo a paradigm shift in order to benefit the majority, billionaire says.

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