Applications for unemployment benefits for the week ending Aug. 9 fell by 3,000 to 224,000, the Labor Department reported. That’s below the 230,000 new applications that economists had forecast.

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Inflation, as measured by the producer price index, shot up to 3.3% for the year ending in July, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Thursday — the largest 12-month increase since February. On a ...