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Market Extra: Bond market starts to fret about return of inflation on strength of U.S. labor market

Bond investors are worrying about the possibility that inflation could rebound again, given a U.S. labor market that's showing no signs of breaking.

Bond Report: 2 and 10 year Treasury yields jump to one-week highs after weekly jobless claims

Investors sell off U.S. government debt on Thursday, after weekly jobless claims point to continued labor-market strength.

: Students were charged $10,000 to take the Caltech cybersecurity bootcamp. But the top-ranked school did not run the course, suit claims

Caltech’s program is one of many online partnerships between non-profit universities and for-profit companies that have come under scrutiny.

Futures Movers: Oil prices finish higher with traders’ attention ‘shifting between demand and supply’

Crude-oil futures gain on Thursday, with traders focused on prospects for supply and demand, while hot weather forecasts pull natural-gas prices sharply higher.

The Tell: Why U.S. economy is heading to a soft landing, and its stocks may be a better bet than those in China and Europe, says Goldman Sachs

Most economists are expecting a recession to hit the U.S. in the next 12 months and company earnings growth to become stagnant in 2023, but Goldman Sachs is much more optimistic.

Commodities Corner: Why scorching summer temperatures haven’t yet led to a lasting rally for natural gas

Natural-gas futures climbed by nearly 6% on Thursday, but the rally did little to ease the year’s hefty loss for the commodity as traders bet that supplies will be more than enough to cover demand, even as much of the U.S. and parts of the world experience scorching temperatures.

Earnings Results: Travelers swings to loss as it books $1.5 billion in catastrophe losses following tornadoes and hail storms

Bad weather pushed Travelers to a loss in the second quarter, but the stock was still higher on Thursday.

: Netflix bonds steady, stock drops after equity investors give thumbs down to revenue forecast

Bonds issued by Netflix are holding steady, despite a 8.4% slide in its stock price after a revenue forecast came in below expectations.

In One Chart: Stock-market bubble trouble? Check out the 3-year view on Nasdaq, S&P 500 returns.

The Nasdaq Composite is smoking the S&P 500 in 2023 as a stock-market rally stokes fears of a tech-led bubble. But is the performance so unusual?

BookWatch: ‘This has absolutely changed me.’ Alzheimer’s takes a toll on patients and their loved ones. 

'My Father’s Brain: Life in the shadows of Alzheimer’s' is a candid memoir of a doctor watching his scientist father succumb to the disease.

Metals Stocks: Gold prices log first loss in 3 sessions as Treasury yields, dollar rise

Gold futures end lower on Thursday, with prices marking their first loss in three sessions.

Commodities Corner: COVID pandemic is officially over in the U.S., data on excess deaths show

The COVID-19 pandemic is definitively over, according to two recent reports focused on the same metric.
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