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The executive arm of the European Union scolded France on Wednesday for taking on too much debt. This came at a time when President Emmanuel Macron is facing strong opposition from both the far right and the left in the election campaign. The EU Commission told seven countries, including France, to begin what is known as a “excessive deficit procedure.” This is the first step in a long process that must be completed before any member state can be squished and forced to make changes. EU Commission Vice President Valdis Dombrovskis said, “Deficit criteria is not met in seven of…

Economists changed their minds about how immigration might be helping the U.S. economy after the Congressional Budget Office reported higher population growth than the Census Bureau. A new report from Wall Street says that even the CBO report is wrong about how big the immigration wave is. The CBO said that net immigration was 3.3 million last year, but Barclays, in a new report on immigration that was part of the bank’s half-year outlook, said that it was 4 million. This was more than any other U.S. government agency. According to the Barclays report, which is based on a new…

Thursday, the Bank of England decided to keep interest rates the same. This may be the last time they do this before inflation hits their goal. The U.K. central bank kept rates at 5.25% by a vote of 7 to 2. According to the report, “the tight monetary policy is slowing down the real economy, making the job market less tight, and putting pressure on inflation,” “The MPC’s job requires that monetary policy stay tight for a long enough time to bring inflation back to the 2% target in a way that can be sustained over the medium term.” It…

Building of new homes in the U.S. dropped 5.5% in May, to its lowest level in four years, as builders slowed down on new projects. Builders had to deal with higher-than-normal financing costs and higher mortgage rates that affect home buyers, which slowed down the building process. The number of home starts dropped from 1.35 million in April to 1.28 million in May, the government said Thursday. That many homes would be built in a year if they are built at the same rate every month as they were in May. In May, housing starts dropped to their lowest level…

Thursday, Winnebago Industries Inc.’s stock dropped 4% after the company reported lower-than-expected earnings for the third quarter of its fiscal year. For the quarter ending May 25, Winnebago WGO, -3.37%, a company based in Eden Prairie, Minn., made $29.0 million, or 96 cents per share. This was down from $59.1 million, or $1.71 per share, in the same time last year. After taking into account one-time items, EPS was $1.13, which was less than the $1.31 that FactSet predicted. Sales dropped 12.7% to $786.0 million, which was also less than the $798.0 million mean predicted by FactSet. “While retail patterns…

The numbers: A small drop in the number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits was seen last week, but the number of new jobless claims stayed close to a 10-month high. This may have something to do with the end of the school year. The number of new claims dropped from 243,000 the week before to 238,000, the government said Thursday. Two weeks ago, there were more claims than at any time since August 2023. Last year, a lot of new jobless claims came in after school ended. This may be happening again. In some states, like Minnesota, people who…

Goldman Sachs strategists say that this is a way to protect against inflation risks caused by the U.S. election. According to them, inflation and bond returns would be most at risk if the Republicans won both the presidency and both houses of Congress. This is because of higher import tariffs, slower immigration, tighter sanctions on Iranian oil, lower taxes, and, as Goldman put it, “stronger attempts to influence Fed policy.” Trump, the former president who is on track to become the Republican nominee for president for a third time in a row, has suggested that tariffs should be used instead…

The Supreme Court upheld a federal tax that made a couple from Washington pay for the gains they made on an investment even though they never made any money from it. The court said that the couple’s share in a foreign company had already been turned into taxable income. Fans and opponents of the case wanted the Supreme Court to use it as an opportunity to decide if wealth taxes are legal or not, but the majority chose not to get involved. Still, some people who support a wealth tax saw that as a green light. In fact, the 7-2…

Analysts at CryptoQuant say that Bitcoin has fallen below its 50-day average of around $65,800, which is a key support level. This means that the price could go down by 8% to 12%. Analysts said that the price of the coin could go down to $60,000. Bloomberg says that the market value of the biggest cryptocurrency, BTCUSD, -2.87%, fell 2% on Tuesday to about $64,625. It’s up more than 50% so far this year, but it’s still more than 12% below its all-time high of $73,798 in March. Katie Stockton, founder and managing partner at Fairlead Strategies, says that the…

Canaccord Genuity said that E.l.f. Beauty stock will continue to grow, which caused it to continue to rise sharply on Tuesday. Analyst Susan Anderson raised her price target for e.l.f. from $214 to $250, which is a 28% rise from Monday’s closing price of the stock. Anderson also gave her Buy rating again. Anderson wrote in a research note, “Current tracked sales data look great; untracked channel sales have been growing at triple-digit rates; and ELF is still waiting for the boost from major shelf space additions planned for this summer.” “We think this sets up ELF for another year…