Price
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Business
Funeral Homes Don’t Have to List Prices Online. That May Change.
The federal rule that requires funeral homes to list their prices didn’t envision the internet. Now, regulators are weighing an…
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Business
Double-Digit Price Increases Bolster Profits at Procter & Gamble
The consumer goods company raised prices 10 percent across its brands for a second straight quarter and said its profit…
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Business
Falling Lithium Prices Are Making Electric Cars More Affordable
Lithium, the common ingredient in almost all electric-car batteries, has become so precious that it is often called white gold.…
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Business
Fed Minutes Showed Policymakers Were Still Intent on Easing Inflation
Federal Reserve officials thought they needed to do more to cool the economy even before a series of strong data…
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Business
The Week in Business: Microsoft’s Big Bet on A.I.
Credit...Giacomo BagnaraWhat’s Up? (Feb. 5-11) An A.I. Arms Race Microsoft’s often-overlooked search engine, Bing, is mounting a comeback with ChatGPT,…
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US
Fact-Checking Biden’s State of the Union Address
The president’s speech contained no outright falsehoods, but at times omitted crucial context or exaggerated the facts.
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News
Stagflation or Soft Landing? It Depends Who You Ask.
Let me start with a picture, which will help frame the debate I’m about to describe. Here’s official consumer price…
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News
The Fierce Debate Over Managing Oil Prices
During President Barack Obama’s eight years in office, the Strategic Petroleum Reserve shrank by about nine million barrels. Under President…
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Business
A Key Measure of Wages Showed Moderation at the End of 2022
The Employment Cost Index, which Federal Reserve officials watch closely as a gauge of pay trends, is picking up more…
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Business
N.Y.S.E. Glitch Leads to Wild Swings in Share Prices
Prices eventually returned to normal levels, but the turmoil left some traders uncertain of whether their orders were placed.