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* Indexes down: Dow 1.99%, S&P 2.14%, Nasdaq 2.67%. NEW YORK, May 12 - Wall Street closed lower on Wednesday with the S&P suffering its biggest $one$-day percentage drop since February, as inflation data fueled concerns over whether interest rate hikes from the Fed could happen sooner than anticipated.All three major U.S. stock indexes ended the session deep in the red following the Labor Department's April consumer prices report, which showed the biggest rise in nearly 12 years.The report was

General Motors(NYSE:GM)surprised Wall Street with a first-quarter net profit of $3 billion, up from

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Electric-car companyTeslahas now produced a profit for seven consecutive quarters. Tesla managed aGAAPnet income of $438 million in the first quarter, up from just $16 million one-year prior. It would appear, at least at first glance, that the electric-vehicle pioneer is on the right track in terms of profitability.The problem is that these profits aren't really coming from the cars that Tesla sells. The company currently generates hundreds of millions of dollars in pure profit each quarter fro

Dallas Federal Reserve Bank President Robert Kaplan on Friday warned of imbalances in U.S. financial