Nicholas Jasinski

Enrollment is growing at the company’s employer-sponsored centers, and profit margins are poised to widen.

No matter which way Friday’s August jobs report lands, it will inform the path of Federal Reserve policy in the coming months. A repeat of July’s surprise weak data could fuel recent recession concerns and invite a mo

Follow live coverage of the August jobs report, released Friday morning.

Verizon Communications ’ deal to acquire Frontier Communications is a bet that combining wireless and wired networks will enhance its proposition for consumers and return the telecommunications giant to growth. In 2016, Verizon sold its wired operations in California, Texas, and Florida to Frontier for $10.5 billion. Verizon’s Fios fiber internet service is concentrated in Virginia and much of the Northeast.

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A highly anticipated interest-rate decision by the Federal Reserve will be this week’s highlight. Retail sales and housing market data, corporate earnings, and a Bank of Japan policy meeting will also be of interest. Policymakers have signaled they will cut rates at the Fed’s September meeting, which ends on Wednesday afternoon.

The Federal Reserve's preferred inflation measure comes out on Friday. Plus, earnings from AutoZone, CarMax, and Vail Resorts.

The unemployment rate is expected to hold at 4.2% in September, with 145,000 new jobs. Plus, earnings from Carnival, Nike, McCormick, and Levi Strauss.

A proposed 35% raise over four years wasn’t enough to bring Boeing employees back to work after six weeks on the picket line. Will an even bigger wage increase boost inflation? Boeing may have to increase its wage offer to more than the latest 35% raise it put forward.

Stubborn inflation could keep interest rates higher for longer, said BlackRock CEO Laurence Fink on Tuesday. Fink said that he expects at least a quarter-point decrease before the end of 2024, but potentially less easing in the coming years than markets are pricing in. “I do believe we have greater embedded inflation in the world than we’ve ever seen,” Fink said at the Future Investment Initiative, an investment conference in Saudi Arabia, on Tuesday.