@mktwrobs

MarketWatch's Washington bureau chief. Email me: [email protected].

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Moderna’s cancer vaccine hits its targets, but an embargo breach rattles investors and the stock tumbles. From @jaimy_lee marketwatch.com/story/modern… via @MarketWatch

Moderna’s stock tumbles after reported leak of data for cancer vaccine

Moderna and Merck are expected to share the Phase 3 data for their experimental cancer vaccine this weekend at a medical conference.

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Young people are giving up their cars. It's not just about affordability. @venessawong saw this data in the Fed's latest Survey of Consumer Finances & did a great job of finding the story behind it >> marketwatch.com/story/young-…
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Myra Saefong@MktwSaefongOct 21
‘Super’ El Niño may soon make your coffee super expensive marketwatch.com/story/super-… via @MarketWatch

‘Super’ El Niño may soon make your coffee super expensive

Agricultural markets around the world are already dealing with record-high diesel prices and high fertilizer costs. A “super” El Niño is almost guaranteed to make matters worse for farmers and...

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Not just California: Wealth taxes are on the ballot across America this November trib.al/KcHUTvf

It’s not just California’s billionaire tax. Wealth is on the ballot in the midterm elections.

Several states are dealing with ballot measures tied to taxing the rich — and there may be even more initiatives on this front in 2028.

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Meet the college students trying to reverse an obscure ban on trading onion futures marketwatch.com/story/meet-t… via @MarketWatch

Meet the college students trying to reverse an obscure ban on trading onion futures

In the U.S., investors can legally trade futures contracts tied to all sorts of commodities, from pork bellies to oil to the computing power needed to power artificial-intelligence models.

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Why the Treasury’s financing plans are sparking anxiety on Wall Street marketwatch.com/story/why-th… via @MarketWatch

Why the Treasury’s financing plans are sparking anxiety on Wall Street

Yields on 10-year and 30-year bonds were rising again Monday after falling sharply last week.

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Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh had an opportunity Thursday night to shape expectations heading into the central bank’s interest-rate-setting meeting in two weeks — and in keeping with his practice of leaving markets guessing, he chose not to. trib.al/uMYRJLe
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S&P 500, Nasdaq log worst day since July as AI trade stumbles trib.al/ojZUYSs

Stock Market Today: S&P 500, Nasdaq log worst day since July as AI trades stumble; small caps enter...

AI stocks and small-caps closed sharply lower Wednesday as a hot consumer-price index reading underscored the Federal Reserve's inflation problem

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Venessa Wong@venessawongOct 14
I'm looking to interview people <age 50 who recently gave up their car (& no longer have a car for the household) for financial reasons for @MarketWatch. Email [email protected]. I'll have to use your full name in the article; happy to answer any Qs before you decide.
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Myra Saefong@MktwSaefongOct 14
Rising diesel prices have helped fuel inflation — and we’re about to see how much worse it could get marketwatch.com/story/rising… via @MarketWatch

Rising diesel prices have helped fuel inflation — and we’re about to see how much worse it could get

Consumer inflation just came in hot. Thursday will provide more clues on the impact of record diesel prices ahead of the midterm elections.

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Myra Saefong@MktwSaefongOct 12
Trump’s ‘energy ceasefire’ collides with real-world problems of dwindling fuel supplies marketwatch.com/story/trumps… via @MarketWatch @Isabelxwang

Trump’s ‘energy ceasefire’ collides with real-world problems of dwindling fuel supplies

Oil markets were struggling on Monday to gauge how President Donald Trump’s new declaration of an “energy ceasefire” between Russia and Ukraine might help mitigate a deepening global oil crisis as...

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Myra Saefong@MktwSaefongOct 12
Winter is coming and energy bills are climbing. ‘Everything just keeps going up.’ marketwatch.com/story/winter… via @MarketWatch @AndrewKeshner

Winter heating costs are expected to be 8.3% higher than last year. But could El Niño help?

Expensive utility bills have become an increasingly sharp thorn for Americans’ wallets.

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Fed officials want to hold off a rate hike this month. Will this week’s inflation data let them? @grobb2000 marketwatch.com/story/fed-of… via @MarketWatch

Fed officials want to hold off a rate hike this month. Will this week’s inflation data let them?

A troubling rise in prices might trigger an interest-rate move at the Fed’s meeting in late October.

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Trump ramps up battle to fire Fed’s Lisa Cook. Her lawyers say there’s no basis to remove her. trib.al/8ebkBIR

Trump ramps up battle to fire Fed’s Lisa Cook. Her lawyers say there’s no basis to remove her.

Trump wants the committee to report on whether there are grounds for Cook’s removal from office. She hasn’t been charged with a crime.

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Trump makes deal with Russia, pauses sanctions in effort to lower diesel prices trib.al/FqLvXj5

Trump pauses sanctions on Russia in bid to lower diesel prices

President Trump said in a social-media post on Friday that he made a deal with Russian President Vladimir Putin that will lead to Russia supplying more than 300,000 tons of diesel “to the American...

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Bond yields fall as Treasury market passes a crucial test of investor confidence trib.al/B7HkTkr

Bond yields fall as the Treasury market passes a crucial test of investor confidence

The 30-year Treasury bond still matters, as it can be a measure of trust in the U.S. government.

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Ken Paxton is right. Tax cuts will mean Social Security and Medicare cuts. trib.al/4l7cKwY

Ken Paxton is right. Tax cuts will mean Social Security and Medicare cuts.

It doesn’t matter if you are a Republican or Democrat. Math is math.

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Leslie Albrecht@ReporterLeslieOct 7
More college students have to use credit cards just to cover basic living expenses. Here’s what it’s costing them. marketwatch.com/story/more-c…

College students have to use credit cards just to cover basic living expenses. Here’s what it’s...

Nearly 9 out of every 10 students who use credit cards report doing so to pay for basic living expenses such as food, housing and gas. 

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Does AI have a soul? Pope Leo and Anthropic clash. trib.al/gs5Y32L

Does AI have a soul? Pope Leo and Anthropic clash.

The Vatican has laid a moral blueprint for the technology, with Pope Leo maintaining that “algorithms lack the spark of humanity.”

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Victor Reklaitis@vicrekOct 2
Today's jobs report is making an October rate hike look less likely marketwatch.com/livecoverage…

Today’s payrolls report is making an October interest-rate hike look less likely

This morning's weaker-than-expected jobs report has Polymarket showing an 18% chance of an interest-rate increase at this month's Federal Reserve meeting, down from 25% before the report's release....

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