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The Fed's benchmark federal funds rate is now 5.25% to 5.5%.

And more than a quarter of surveyed economists think the likelihood of a recession in the next year is below 26%.

"Unmistakably, the aim is to use the document to persuade courts to extend the frontiers," said former FTC Chair William Kovacic.

As criticism of ESG investing has become louder and increasingly politicized in the U.S., new "anti-ESG funds" have emerged. They attracted $376 million in Q3/2022 alone.

The agency wants to know if the information spit out by ChatGPT hurts consumers.

Recent weakness in the dollar should be a boost for U.S. corporations doing business overseas when they report third-quarter earnings this year.

After July, more interest rate increases look unlikely, since inflation has broadly been decelerating.

After steadily advancing from 2020 through early 2022, the Fed's gauge of manufacturing output fell in June, down 0.3 percent from a year ago.