At the start of the month, a significantly weaker than expected July nonfarm payrolls report along with one of the biggest two-month revisions in decades to job growth all but convinced market participants that the data would be enough to finally get the Federal Reserve to cut interest rates.

The July inflation report keeps an interest-rate cut firmly on the table after the Federal Reserve’s meeting next month. The lack o

Wall Street's main indexes declined on Thursday, after a hotter-than-expected producer prices report dampened investor expectations of potential interest-rate cuts by the Federal Reserve this year.