A strong economy is giving Federal Reserve officials room to move “carefully” as they lower interest rates, the central bank ...
Inflation has cooled notably, but a pickup in annual price increases underscores that it is not fully back to normal.
Fed boss Jerome Powell didn't give much away in a keenly-watched set-piece speech on Thursday, but made it clear that the ...
The benign reading from the Federal Reserve’s “beige book” – a compendium of economic reports from the Fed’s regional banks around the country – released Wednesday largely matches the ...
The Federal Reserve has plenty of reasons to deliver a widely expected interest rate cut on Thursday, including a decline in inflation and a cooling in labor markets that makes it harder for Americans ...
Stocks finished lower on Thursday, with another afternoon selloff tied to a jump in Treasury bond yields, this time linked to ...
Inflation data has long been a precursor of Fed policy changes because of the ... not an academic research paper. In 1988, New Zealand was grappling with two decades of double-digit inflation.
As the table below shows, the Fed’s paper or unrealized losses were much higher at $1.1 trillion as of the end of the second quarter. But those $203B are realized losses, and it's very important ...
Federal Reserve officials, following their internal guidelines, have gone silent to prepare for their interest-rate policy meeting on Nov. 7. Based on the speeches from Fed officials over the past ...
"The (Fed) has gained greater confidence that inflation is moving sustainably toward 2%, and judges that the risks to achieving its employment and inflation goals are roughly in balance,” the ...
Fed officials penciled a median estimate of two more smaller rate cuts for the remainder of this year. Fed officials will meet again on Nov. 6-7, and traders are currently betting on a 25 basis ...