It’s time to mark cards for what has become the single most important data release for global markets: the US consumer price inflation data. This one is consequential, although perhaps not as important as it feels at present. The virtually universal expectation is that the headline annual CPI number will fall compared to the previous month, for the first ...

  Congress still hasn’t approved supplemental funding for Covid-19 vaccines, booster shots, treatments, tests and scientific work in a bill it’s been sitting on for months. Democrats have the tools to make it happen, but they aren’t using them. Republicans are filibustering against the bill in the Senate, holding the spending hostage in an attempt to get their way on ...

  Bloomberg Boeing Co said customers for its much delayed 777X jet are standing by orders for the wide-body model even after it was revealed that the program has slipped five years behind schedule. While Boeing has held talks to update buyers, feedback so far has stopped short of moves to walk away from the 777X, Darren Hulst, the manufacturer’s ...