The Federal Reserve may have pretty much just hit its 2% inflation target

While tax hikes are focused on big corporations and high earners, the budget also contains politically-controversial measures.

The producer price index was expected to show a 0.1% increase in September, according to the Dow Jones consensus.

The U.K. economy had previously recorded modest but steady expansion in almost every month this year, but flatlined recently.

The consumer price index was expected to show a 0.1% increase in September and a 2.3% gain from a year...

That would be on top of the carnage already left behind by Hurricane Helene, posing a potential record-breaking path of...

If this sounds like a Goldilocks scenario, it's probably not far from it, even with the lingering inflation concerns.