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Your daily horoscope: February 24, 2026

  IF TODAY IS YOUR BIRTHDAY The coming year will bring a lot of new challenges but each and every one of them is designed to bring out the best in you. That does not just apply to your career and your creative ambitions, it applies to your love life as well. ARIES (March 21 - April 20): It may seem as if you are being swept along by forces over which you have no control but that isn’t true. You always have free will and if you use it today just to say “no” occasionally you may find you have more control than you thought. TAURUS (April 21 - May 21): Your powers of persuasion have rarely been higher but how should you be using them? One way is to convince friends and family members that they don’t need to do anything too drastic. If they keep plugging away their luck will change soon enough. GEMINI (May 22 - June 21): You cannot now decide that you are going to back out of something that you agreed to do a little while ago, not unless you want your reputation to take a major hit. It ...
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U.S. Consumer Prices Rise More Than Expected in December; Weekly Jobless Claims Fall

 

The U.S. consumer prices rose more than expected in December, according to a recent report by the Labor Department’s Bureau of Labor Statistics. The Consumer Price Index (CPI) rose 0.3% last month after nudging up 0.1% in November

The cost of shelter accounted for more than half of the increase in the CPI. In the 12 months through December, the CPI rose 3.4% after increasing 3.1% in November. This increase was higher than the 0.2% on the month and 3.2% on a year-on-year basis that economists polled by Reuters had forecasted.

In addition, the report also stated that weekly jobless claims fell. Initial claims for state unemployment benefits were unchanged at a seasonally adjusted 205,000 for the week ended Dec. 18, the Labor Department said.

This report could delay a much anticipated interest rate cut in March from the Federal Reserve. With the resilient labor market keeping wage growth elevated, some economists expect a rate cut in May or June.


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