May's Consumer Price Index (CPI) saw inflation rise by 0.1% month-over-month — below economists' forecasts of 0.2% — and 2.4% annually, coming in line with year-over-year estimates. Core CPI — which excludes food and energy prices — also saw its inflation readings cool in May, rising only 0.1% monthly (vs. 0.3% forecasts) and 2.8% annually (vs. 2.9% forecasts). Morning Brief anchors Brad Smith and Madison Mills dive into the breaking report on consumer prices. New Century Advisors chief economist Claudia Sa ...

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Welcome to a new episode of the opening bid podcast. I'm Yahoo Finance executive editor Brian Sazi. Like I always say, this is the podcast that will make you a smarter investor, period.And we're going to have some fun on this podcast. Recent episodes, we were talking about the economy. We're talking to some strategists.We were talking about potential bond market crisis. I want to have a little fun. Uh it's the summer and to that end, I want to bring in Roblox CEO Dave Bazooki.Dave, good to see you. It has b ...

Senate Republicans are expected to propose revisions to key tax and healthc care policies in the President Trump backed budget bill this week as lawmakers rush to get the bill done by July 4th. Congress members and key White House officials are expected to meet as early as Thursday. Joining us now on this, we've got Kevin Brady.He is former chair of the House Ways and Means Committee and architect of President Trump's original tax cuts. It's great to have you on this morning, Congressman. Thank you so much ...

The number of Chinese imports entering the United States significantly lower compared to a year ago. Chinese goods are still arriving in the states via other Asian nations. For more, let's welcome in Yahoo Finances Rick Newman.I mean, this has been sort of long-standing practice, right. Ways for China to try and get around existing tariffs. So, what do we know about what's happening now.Well, it's only long-standing when uh Donald Trump is the US president imposing tariffs. Uh but yeah, it's a pattern we sa ...

In the course of your investing journey, you may have heard of the term 60/40, a mainstream allocation strategy dictating 60% investment in stocks, 40% going to fixed income or bonds. But our next guest says that a 4060 strategy is paying off so far this year. Here with more, we've got Todd Schlanger, who is the senior investment strategist over at Vanguard.Todd, good to have you. So, explain why you're flipping the 6040 on its head and how you're implementing the 4060. Yeah, well, thanks for having us.The ...

Train Technologies is reaching milestones with its stock price soaring to all-time highs and the company reaching a market cap of more than 94 billion dollars. It's the latest focus of our new series, The Y behind the high, where we're taking a look at companies whose stock is at or near record highs. Train is among them with its business focused on sustainable solutions for commercial climate and HVAC systems.Train Technologies chairman and CEO Dave Ragnary joins us now. Dave, it's great to see you again. ...

Well, the NFIB small business optimism index, it increased by three points in May thanks to more positive expectations on business conditions and sales growth, but uncertainty still remains high on Main Street. Here to break down the report, we've got Holly Wade, NFIB Research Center executive director. Holly, great to have you here as always and to get some of your insights on the report.Just want to get your biggest takeaways. Sure. of small business owners, the index improved three points. And so this is ...

Wall Street is increasingly interested in bringing private assets to everyday investors. Financial services firm Empower, which oversees 1.8% trillion in 401k accounts for 19 million people, recently announced that it will offer private credit equity and real estate into some of its accounts later on this year. But there are certain issues tied to private assets and mainstream use.According to our very own Bob Pal, private assets can be complex and illquid, meaning they aren't easily bought or sold. These a ...

[Music] The itinerary for global markets this year has been busy, but the S&P 500 has barely left the gate, up a modest 2%. Meanwhile, several single stock ETFs have already gone long hole, chalking up 30 and even 40 plus% gains. And today, we're going to be we're going to see who's been filling up their passports with the juiciest returns.I'm Jared Blicker, host of Stocks in Translation. So, let's take a look at the country leaderboard. Greece and Poland are at the top of our list.Each of these European co ...