What had many big names worried earlier in the year turned out to be something they could manage.

A December cut seems probable, but newly released data from the Bureau of Economic Analysis, the Federal Reserve’s preferred inflation measure, is missing two months.

Top executives got higher average increases, but fewer of them received one.

The overall figures are the second lowest since 1969.

It’s a story of improvement that started in 2024.

Both Dollar Tree and Dollar General pointed to the holidays during their Q3 earnings calls.

Spending was up on a monthly basis but declined year-over-year.

In its December Supervision and Regulation Report, the Federal Reserve said that it remains focused particularly on CBOs and RBOs.