A big website called Benzinga wrote an article about how the money things in the US are doing today. The stocks, which are little parts of companies that people can buy and sell, stopped going up for a bit because some important numbers went down. These important numbers are how much the government pays people to lend them money, and how strong the dollar is compared to other countries' money. Some people thought the government would make it cheaper for people to borrow money soon, but now they don't think that will happen as fast. A big company from China called Alibaba did well today because their stocks went up a lot. Read from source...