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Hey, is still rising faster than prices.

I'm Novosafa with the marketplace minute.

The labor department says wages and benefits in the three months ending in September grew by 4.3%

compared to the same period a year ago.

Inflation is at around three and a half percent.

Still, the federal reserve is looking to slow pay increases to meet its inflation target.

Consumers drew less confident about the economy this month, mainly due to rising grocery and gas prices.

The consumer confidence index declined for the third straight month.

But more respondents said their family financial conditions were good.

Home prices increased in August up to and a half percent on an annual basis,

according to the S&P Core Logic Case Shiller National Home Price Index.

The US government is suing solar winds whose IT software Russian hackers penetrated in 2020,

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