(Reuters) -Wall Street's main indexes were on track for a listless open on Monday, in a week packed with crucial inflation readings, Congressional testimony from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell and the start of the corporate earnings season. Expectations for interest-rate cuts as early as September received a boost after Friday's nonfarm payrolls report showed U.S. job growth slowed in...

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A surge in the U.S. labor force in recent years may have driven up the number of new jobs needed to avoid a rise in the unemployment rate to around 230,000 a month, according to research published Monday by the San Francisco Federal Reserve Bank. That elevated breakeven rate is likely not a new normal, the...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The path U.S. inflation is expected to follow over coming years generally softened in June, amid retreating projections of price increases for a wide array of consumer goods and services, a Federal Reserve Bank of New York report released on Monday said. Inflation a year from now was seen at 3% as of June, from the...

07:39 AM EDT, 07/08/2024 (MT Newswires) -- The biggest cryptocurrencies were mixed Monday as investors search for an end to declines of more than 20% since a first-quarter high, eyeing Federal Reserve monetary policy as a potential salve. Bitcoin was down 0.4% in the past 24 hours to trade at $57,166, data compiled by CoinMarketCap showed. Ethereum increased 0.9%, to...