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  • Reuters

    US households still pinched by inflation, Fed report says

    About 72% of adults were doing at least okay financially as of October 2023, the Fed's annual survey on household economics and decision-making showed. Sixty-five percent of adults said high prices had made their situations worse, even though consumer inflation fell sharply from around 9% in June 2022 to below 4% by the time the survey was taken. Rental costs, which have proven to be among the reasons inflation has not eased as much as Fed policymakers had hoped, were up far more than inflation overall, with the median monthly rent rising 10% to $1,100, the survey said.

  • The Telegraph

    Ivan Boesky, Wall Street ‘Midas’ jailed for insider trading who epitomised 1980s greed – obituary

    Ivan Boesky, who has died aged 87, was a Wall Street share dealer whose spectacular rise to fortune ended in a jail sentence for insider trading and whose dictum that “greed is all right” entered the folklore of the boom-time 1980s.

  • BBC

    Heavy rain and flood warning issued for Yorkshire

    The Met Office says heavy downpours could lead to flooding and travel disruption across the region.