Stocks Need A ‘Soft No Landing’

Vladimir Putin's grip on Russia may be loosening, but the US labor market isn't. Or at least not according to the June vintage of the Conference Board's confidence survey, which printed a consensus-topping 109.7 on the headline Tuesday. The labor differential widened, as more Americans viewed jobs as plentiful, while fewer saw them as difficult to get. Taken in conjunction with a blockbuster read on new home sales, Tuesday's data out of the world's largest economy painted a picture of resilien