Segments From This Episode

• New SEC rule says stock trades must be finalized more quickly

  by Daniel Ackerman

  

  Trades must be finalized by the end of the following business day to minimize failures in volatile markets.

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• A sunnier consumer confidence

  by Sabri Ben-Achour

  The yield on the 10-year treasury popped up over the past 24 hours from close to 4.4% to nearly 4.6% — around the highest it’s been in a month or so. Usually, moves in the bond market are telling us something about the economy. What is that something? Let’s ask Julia Coronado, founder of MacroPolicy Perspectives and a professor at the University of Texas – Austin.

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• Child care costs are a big part of why Americans feel inflation still stings

  by David Brancaccio and Alex Schroeder

  

  Prices have climbed persistently, yet the service is persistently scarce. That, in turn, hurts kids and undermines the labor force.

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