Wall Street Journal | Cheap Oil Gives Little Help to US Spending Wall Street Journal When oil and gasoline prices began to tumble in mid-2014, experts widely expected it would jolt spending by U.S. consumers and businesses. It hasn't turned out that way. Instead, the pace of business investment has slowed significantly, due to drags ... Dollar Gains Before Fed Meeting as Oil Drop Hurts Energy Stocks Wall St. up, other markets steady ahead of Fed; oil slips Treasury yields fall as stocks, oil turn lower |