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• New York Factory Activity Shrinks in June, Bonds Rise Monday, 16 Jun 2008 | 8:51 AM ET

  

  A gauge of manufacturing in New York state contracted in June for the fourth time in five months, the New York Federal Reserve said in a report on Monday that also painted a mixed picture on inflation.

• Stocks End Wobbly Week With a Flourish Friday, 13 Jun 2008 | 5:53 PM ET

  Stocks rallied to the finish Friday, led by financials and techs, as a tame core-inflation reading and lower oil helped the market end a chaotic week on a high note.

• Greenspan: Fed Will Have to Raise Interest Rates Friday, 13 Jun 2008 | 5:36 PM ET

  

  U.S. Federal Reserve Former Chairman Alan Greenspan said Friday the Fed will have to tighten monetary policy to put a brake on inflation and said the worst of the U.S. credit crisis may have passed.

• Stocks Hold Ground as Financials, Tech Soar Friday, 13 Jun 2008 | 3:17 PM ET

  Stocks regained lost ground heading into the final hour of trade, with lower oil boosting financials and a host of other beaten-down sectors as Wall Street bid to finish a seesaw week slightly higher.

• The Ambiguous Economics Of John McCain   Friday, 13 Jun 2008 | 12:42 PM ET

  In recent days the Republican standard bearer gave a really strong supply-side taxpayer-friendly speech, hitting all the right notes. Undoubtedly his best economic statement of the campaign to date.

• Stocks Higher as Oil Slides, Financials Gain Friday, 13 Jun 2008 | 11:45 AM ET

  Stocks continued a solid rally Friday, boosted by falling oil prices and investors who swooped in to snatch up battered financial stocks.

• Gas Prices Soar, But Core Inflation Is Still Tame Friday, 13 Jun 2008 | 10:30 AM ET

  

  Soaring gasoline and energy prices helped drive up U.S. consumer prices during May by the fastest rate since November, a government report showed.

• Consumer Prices Expected to Rise, with Fed Watching Friday, 13 Jun 2008 | 5:49 AM ET

  

  With Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke sounding alarms about inflation, the consumer price index is expected to have risen by 0.5 percent in May.

• Sell Block: ConAgra's Conundrum Thursday, 12 Jun 2008 | 6:51 PM ET

  Sky-high food and fuel prices will make it hard for this company to meet analyst expectations.

• Inflation Is Real--Bernanke’s Right--Kohn’s All Wet Thursday, 12 Jun 2008 | 4:47 PM ET

  Driven up by the cheap dollar, U.S. import prices surged nearly 18 percent above year-ago levels, according to a new report out today. Even removing all energy-related fuels, the surge is still 6 percent.

• Plosser is Right on the Money Thursday, 12 Jun 2008 | 11:26 AM ET

  Is there a July Fed action coming to take back a one-quarter rate cut? I think so. That would put up the target to 2.25%. It would be a shot heard round the world, strengthening the dollar and attracting new liquidity and capital flows into the US economy.

• Inflation Forecasts Raised in US, Europe, UK Thursday, 12 Jun 2008 | 8:19 AM ET

  The inflation outlook for 2008 in the U.S., Japan, euro zone and the UK rose again in June, triggering big revisions to economists' interest rate forecasts, Reuters polls showed on Thursday.

• Consumers Feel Pinched By Energy, Food Prices Wednesday, 11 Jun 2008 | 2:12 PM ET

  

  The US economy remained "weak" in May as consumer spending slowed due to higher energy and food prices, the Federal Reserve said in its Beige Book summary.

• Fed May Hold Rates Steady Despite Inflation: Kohn Wednesday, 11 Jun 2008 | 12:05 PM ET

  

  Fed Vice Chairman Donald Kohn hinted that the central bank is inclined to leave rates steady despite rising inflation worries.

• Pimco's McCulley: Government Understating Inflation Wednesday, 11 Jun 2008 | 9:36 AM ET

  The standard of living has decreased for many Americans, a trend that will reverse only after the troubles in the housing market work through, Pimco Managing Director Paul McCulley said on CNBC.

• Housing or Inflation? Tuesday, 10 Jun 2008 | 6:12 PM ET

  Why trying to solve both problems at the same time could lead to disaster.

• Dow Ekes Out a Gain, Led by Coke Tuesday, 10 Jun 2008 | 4:54 PM ET

  Stocks struggled to hold gains Tuesday as bank stocks rallied but comments from Bernanke hung over the market like a cloud. Oil dropped more than $3 to settle at $131.31 a barrel.

• Fed Is Hoping to Talk Down Inflation, Not Boost Rates Tuesday, 10 Jun 2008 | 2:54 PM ET

  

  The Federal Reserve hopes tough talk on inflation will do the job of moderating price increases, giving it room to avoid raising interest rates.

• Stocks Struggle to Hold Gains; Coke Leads Dow Tuesday, 10 Jun 2008 | 2:38 PM ET

  Stocks ticked higher Tuesday as the rally started in bank stocks and then filtered into the broader market.

• Dow Attempts Gains as Banks Rally Tuesday, 10 Jun 2008 | 1:12 PM ET

  Blue chips tried to muster an advance Tuesday, encouraged by a rally in bank stocks, but comments from Bernanke hung over the market like a cloud.