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News & Updates:

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  Trump considers different options to stave off recession
  Administration weighing options to avoid recession; FDIC approves Volcker rule changes; Farmers frustrated over ethanol exemptions; Existing home sales climb 2.5% in July; CBO raises 10-Year forecasts for budget deficits by $809 billion; FOMC releases minutes from July meeting.
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  Child separations continue despite desist order
  Trump administration wants to index capital gains to inflation; Child separations at border continue despite order to stop; 500,000 kids could lose free school lunch under Trump administration proposal; Senate panel acknowledges climate change in passing $287 billion transportation bill; Fed cuts rate by a quarter point; ADP: Private sector employment increased by 156,000 jobs in July.
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  Trump administration pushes for greater transparency in hospitals
  Trump administration proposes hospital price transparency rule; AG restricts asylum claims based on family relations; Senators unveil federal highway spending plan; Consumer spending slows slightly in June; Inflation well below Fed target in June; U.S home prices rose at a slower pace in May. 
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  Trade talks with China set to resume this week
  First large-scale offshore wind project faces headwinds from fishing industry; Labor department announces small business retirement-plan rule; U.S. joins international community demanding decryption power; U.S.-China trade talks resume this week; Inflation concerns driving expected Fed rate cut.
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  The Mexican government staves off tariffs with increased immigration measures
  The US Energy Department will prohibit its researchers from joining Chinese recruitment programs and will require all personnel to disclose connections to foreign government recruitment programs; The Mexican government prevented further tariff increases by the TrumpAdministration by agreeing to harsher immigration measures targeting Central American migrants; This Monday, President Trump shifted his focus back to the trade war with China, after gaining significant concessions from the Mexican government by threatening tariffs; The New York Fed reported this Monday that consumer inflation expectations fell to the lowest level since late 2017; US producer prices have increased for a second month in May, according to a Labor Department report.