- The board's Consumer Confidence Index slumped to 88.7, a drop of 6.8 points from the prior month for its lowest reading in seven months.
- Private companies lost an average of 13,500 jobs a week over the past four weeks, ADP said Tuesday.
- The producer price index was expected to increase 0.3% in September, according to the Dow Jones consensus estimate.
- Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the U.S. was not at risk of entering a recession in 2026 and that Americans would soon benefit from Trump's policies.
- The BLS said it was canceling the release of the October CPI, leaving the Fed without a key piece of inflation data before it next decides on interest rates.
- Competition for Nvidia's crown in the artificial intelligence is ramping up, but analysts aren't too worried — for now.
- Some stocks with "buy" ratings from analysts have seen their shares, earnings and income sink this year.
- Todd Gordon goes through the technicals of the health care sector and this organ transport stock.
- As Americans shop for the holidays, the sales taxes collected are used to secure sales-tax bonds.
- The investment world is "expecting far more economic importance out of this technology than is likely to be provided," Burry's associate portfolio manager said.
