Good morning.
Friday in Whitewater will be partly cloudy with a high of 81. Sunrise is 6:31 and sunset is 7:09, for 12 hours, 38 minutes of daytime. The moon is a waning gibbous with 70.7 percent of its visible disk illuminated.
On this day in 490 B.C., on the conventionally accepted date for the Battle of Marathon, the Athenians and their Plataean allies defeat the first Persian invasion force of Greece.
The latest economic news confirms that the economy is moving in the wrong direction:
Prices consumers pay for a variety of goods and services moved higher than expected in August while jobless claims accelerated, providing challenging economic signals for the Federal Reserve before its meeting next week.
The consumer price index posted a seasonally adjusted 0.4% increase for the month, the biggest gain since January, putting the annual inflation rate at 2.9%, up 0.2 percentage point from the prior month and the highest reading since January. Economists surveyed by Dow Jones had been looking for respective readings of 0.3% and 2.9%.
For the vital core reading that excludes food and energy, the August gain was 0.3%, putting the 12-month figure at 3.1%, both as forecast. Fed officials consider core to be a better gauge of long-run trends. The central bank’s inflation target is 2%.
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On employment, the Labor Department reported a surprise increase in weekly unemployment compensation filings to a seasonally adjusted 263,000 for the week ended Sept. 6, higher than the 235,000 estimate and up 27,000 from the prior period’s revised figure. The claims level marked the highest in nearly four years.
See Jeff Cox, Consumer prices rose at annual rate of 2.9% in August, as weekly jobless claims jump, CNBC, September 11, 2025.
Why is this factory breeding a million mosquitoes?: