WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The White House said on Friday it had learned there likely will not be a release of inflation data next month due to the U.S. government shutdown, which could leave a gap in a data series stretching back more than a century. An impasse between Republicans and Democrats in Congress has resulted in a widespread federal government shutdown,...

01:25 PM EDT, 10/24/2025 (MT Newswires) -- US equity indexes broke records as cooling consumer price inflation reinforced market expectations that the Federal Reserve will cut interest rates two more times this year. The Nasdaq Composite climbed 1.3% to 23,238.2, after hitting a record 23,246.546 level earlier in the session. The S&P 500 advanced 0.8% to 6,793.7, also scaling a...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Republican lawmakers have been praising a preliminary plan under consideration by President Donald Trump's administration to curb exports to China of a dizzying array of globally produced technology powered by U.S. software, as first reported by Reuters.  Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent confirmed the proposal which, if implemented, could hit global shipments to China of everything from laptops to...

(Reuters) -U.S. natural gas dealmaking has surged in 2025 and is set to accelerate, analysts say, driven by record power demand from AI data centers, rising LNG exports and renewed Asian investment. The United States is poised to see a record surge in power demand this year, led by data centers' outsized energy needs, the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA)...