A letter from the comptroller to major state-employee pensions provides a list of "energy boycotters," claiming firms including BlackRock, UBS, and Credit Suisse "should not ... benefit from assets invested for the future of Texans while simultaneously undermining our state's economic future."

According to the Fed minutes, "maintaining a restrictive policy stance until inflation is clearly on a path toward 2 percent is appropriate from a risk-management perspective."

Economists now expect the federal funds rate to peak at 5.25%, vs. the 5% they expected just last month.

This dollar amount equates to 6.6 billion lost hours of productivity over a two-year period of the pandemic, according to a new Integrated Benefits Institute report.