SAN FRANCISCO, California, Sept. 11 (TNSLrpt) -- The U.S. Department of Labor Bureau of Labor Statistics - Western Regional Information Office issued the following report: * * * Consumer Price Index, Anchorage area -- August 2025 * The Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) for Urban Alaska increased 0.8 percent for the two months ending in August 2025, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Regional Commissioner Chris Rosenlund noted that the index for all items l  more

SAN FRANCISCO, California, Sept. 11 (TNSLrpt) -- The U.S. Department of Labor Bureau of Labor Statistics - Western Regional Information Office issued the following report: * * * Consumer Price Index, Los Angeles area -- August 2025 * The Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) for Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim increased 0.3 percent in August, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Regional Commissioner Chris Rosenlund noted that the index for all items less food an  more

SAN FRANCISCO, California, Sept. 11 (TNSLrpt) -- The U.S. Department of Labor Bureau of Labor Statistics - Western Regional Information Office issued the following report: * * * Consumer Price Index, Phoenix area -- August 2025 * The Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) for Phoenix-Mesa-Scottsdale increased 0.9 percent for the two months ending in August 2025, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Regional Commissioner Chris Rosenlund noted that the index for al  more

SAN FRANCISCO, California, Sept. 11 (TNSLrpt) -- The U.S. Department of Labor Bureau of Labor Statistics - Western Regional Information Office issued the following report: * * * Consumer Price Index, San Francisco Area -- August 2025 * The Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) for San Francisco-Oakland-Hayward increased 0.4 percent for the two months ending in August 2025, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Regional Commissioner Chris Rosenlund noted that the   more

SAN FRANCISCO, California, Sept. 11 (TNSLrpt) -- The U.S. Department of Labor Bureau of Labor Statistics - Western Regional Information Office issued the following report: * * * Consumer Price Index, Seattle area -- August 2025 * The Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) for Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue increased 0.2 percent for the two months ending in August 2025, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Regional Commissioner Chris Rosenlund noted that the index for al  more

SAN FRANCISCO, California, Sept. 11 (TNSLrpt) -- The U.S. Department of Labor Bureau of Labor Statistics - Western Regional Information Office issued the following report: * * * Consumer Price Index, West Region -- August 2025 * The Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) for the West Region increased 0.3 percent in August, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. The index for all items less food and energy rose 0.3 percent in August. The food index rose 0.1 percent,  more

SAN FRANCISCO, California, Sept. 11 (TNSLrpt) -- The Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco issued the following white paper (No. 2025-15) on August 22, 2025, by Alan Taylor, James Cloyne, Oscar Jorda, and Sanjay Singh entitled "Asset Prices and Credit with Diagnostic Expectations." Here are excerpts: * * * Using long-run cross-country panel data, we document that (i) contemporaneous credit growth strongly predicts contemporaneous equity returns with positive sign, and (ii) lagged credit growt  more

SAN FRANCISCO, California, Sept. 11 (TNSLrpt) -- The Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco issued the following white paper (No. 2025-17) on September 5, 2025, by Brent Bundick, Isabel Cairo, and Nicolas Petrosky-Nadeau entitled "Evaluating Macroeconomic Outcomes Under Asymmetries: Expectations Matter." Here are excerpts: * * * Asymmetries play an important role in many macroeconomic models. We show that assumptions on household and firm expectations play a key role in determining the effects  more

SAN FRANCISCO, California, Sept. 11 (TNSLrpt) -- The Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco issued the following white paper (No. 2025-16) on August 29, 2025, by Ina Hajdini, Adam Shapiro, A. Lee Smith, and Daniel Villar entitled "Inflation Since the Pandemic: Lessons and Challenges." Here are excerpts: * * * This paper reviews the drivers of the post-pandemic U.S. inflation surge and subsequent decline, including the behavior and role of inflation expectations. The sharp rise in inflation ref  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 12 -- The Securities and Exchange Commission issued the following litigation release (No. 8:25-cv-02034; C.D. Cal., filed Sept. 10, 2025): * * * Securities and Exchange Commission v. Parker Terrill Austin and Embarcadero Capital Advisors, Inc., No. 8:25-cv-02034 (C.D. Cal., filed Sept. 10, 2025) On September 10, 2025, the Securities and Exchange Commission charged California resident Parker Terrill Austin and the investment advisory firm he established, Embarcadero Capital A  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 11 -- The U.S. Space Force issued the following news: * * * Space Development Agency completes successful launch of First Tranche 1 satellite * WASHINGTON (AFNS) -- The Space Development Agency has announced the successful launch of the first Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture Tranche 1 (T1) Transport Layer space vehicles (SV) from Vandenberg Space Force Base, California. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket delivered, Sept. 10, on orbit 21 T1 data transport SVs built by York  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 11 -- The U.S. Census Bureau issued the following news release: * * * The Cost of Homeownership Continues to Rise * The median monthly owner costs for U.S. homeowners with a mortgage increased to $2,035 in 2024 from $1,960 (inflation-adjusted) in 2023, according to new American Community Survey (ACS) 1-year estimates released today by the U.S. Census Bureau.  "One way we measure housing affordability is based on how much households spend on selected costs such as mortgage  more

PASADENA, California, Sept. 12 (TNSres) -- NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory issued the following news: * * * U.S.-European Sea Level Satellite Will Help Safeguard Ships at Sea Sea surface height data from the Sentinel-6B satellite, led by NASA and ESA, will help with the development of marine weather forecasts, alerting ships to possible dangers. Because most global trade travels by ship, accurate, timely ocean forecasts are essential. These forecasts provide crucial information about storms,   more