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Since peaking in mid-April, crude oil prices have slumped nearly 10% in the spaces of just a few weeks. The sharp drop reflects in part the removal of war risk premium that was slowly priced in as the tensions in the Middle East intensified with Iran and Israel attacking each other directly. But as tensions have eased and hopes for a ceasefire between ...
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Jobs growth slowed markedly in April and wage pressures eased. That's just the sort of bad-news-is-good news labor data the Federal Reserve wants to see if it's to begin cutting interest sometime later this year, experts say. U.S. nonfarm payrolls increased by 175,000 last month, the Bureau of Labor Statistics said Friday, or the smallest gain in six ...