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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. But something surprising has happened recently: The metal’s price has […]




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Will the Fed Keep Tightening as Banks Fail?

Quantitative tightening is supposed to be boring. That’s by design.It doesn’t demand attention like a bank failure, emergency government rescue, wildly fluctuating interest rates or uncomfortably high inflation.But it is […]




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Low Rates Were Meant to Last. Without Them, Finance Is In for a Rough Ride.

WASHINGTON — If a number defined the 2010s, it was 2 percent. Inflation, annual economic growth, and interest rates at their highest all hovered around that level — so persistently […]




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Stocks on Wall Street Rally, Even as Worry About Regional Banks Continues

Upheaval in financial markets continued on Thursday, as investors balanced pockets of turmoil emanating from the banking industry against some semblance of stability returning to the broader market.The S&P 500 […]







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After Days of Panic, Midsize Banks See Stocks Rise

For the first day since Silicon Valley Bank’s unwinding, there were no widespread reports of customers being denied the chance to withdraw money from ATMs and bank branches. It appeared […]




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Wall Street rises on relief over banks and inflation.

Wall Street’s worries eased on Tuesday, as investors took comfort from signs that a potential banking crisis appeared contained and bet on a more supportive environment for the economy going […]