Munadiroh sits outside her home in Mondoliko, Central Java, Indonesia, Monday, Aug. 1, 2022. (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara)
A couple reports on the economy Thursday came in mixed. One said slightlybenefits last week. But another said productivity for U.S. workers slowed by more than economists expected at the start of the year. That could keep upward pressure on inflation, when tariffs could be set to raise prices for all kinds of imported products.
Treasury yields rose following the reports, and the 10-year yield climbed to 4.38% from 4.26% late Wednesday.The two-year Treasury yield, which more closely tracks expectations for action by the Fed, leaped to 3.89% from 3.78%. Traders pared back expectations for how many times the Fed may cut interest rates later this year.In stock markets abroad, the FTSE 100 slipped 0.3% in London after the
Indexes rose across much of the rest of Europe and Asia.AP Business Writers Yuri Kageyama and Matt Ott contributed.
PROCTOR, Vt. (AP) — Weeks after surviving one of the deadliest and most destructive wildfires in California history, the Holden family just wanted a new home.
The family of seven couldn’t find anything nearby to replace their house reduced to ashes in the 2018Emelia Probasco, a senior fellow for the Center for Security and Emerging Technology at Georgetown University, said the statement is noteworthy because few commercial technology companies have so clearly laid out standards for working globally with international governments.
“We are in a remarkable moment where a company, not a government, is dictating terms of use to a government that is actively engaged in a conflict,” she said. “It’s like a tank manufacturer telling a country you can only use our tanks for these specific reasons. That is a new world.”Israel has used its vast trove of intelligence to both target Islamic militants and conduct raids into Gaza seeking to rescue hostages, with civilians often caught in the crossfire. For example, a February 2024 operation that
resulted in the deaths of 60 Palestinians. A June 2024freed four Israeli hostages from Hamas captivity but resulted in the deaths of at least 274 Palestinians.