Stocks rose higher so far this week amid signs fearful inflation expectations are dropping. Traders are also overcoming their initial bearish reaction to the oil cartel’s plan and are now betting higher crude prices won’t lead to the Federal Reserve speeding up the pace of interest-rate hikes.

Starbucks, also, fired Alexis Rizzo, one of the key people behind the organized labor push at the coffee giant, triggering backlash from the Starbucks Workers United union. Her termination came a couple days after Howard Schultz, the three-time former CEO of Starbucks, defended the company’s labor practices in a Senate hearing led by pro-union Sen. Bernie Sanders, an independent from Vermont.