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This isn't the first time the Fed has struggled for independenceAs the Federal Reserve navigates potential leadership changes and ongoing political pressures, its hard-won independence faces a critical t...
Decision Day Guide: Fed set to cut rates, but unlikely to give added signalThe Federal Reserve is expected to cut interest rates by 25 basis points this week amid internal divisions over inflation and growth risks....
How immigration could muddy the job numbers in USThe Federal Reserve faces a complex challenge as it considers interest rate cuts amid a potentially weakening labor market. Trump's immigra...
Brace yourself: Why this could be the summer of economic hell for millions of AmericansThe US economy, despite global headwinds, faces a potential turning point as US president Donald Trump's tariff pause is set to expire on J...
Jerome Powell may use Jackson Hole speech to hint at how fast and how far the Fed could cut ratesFederal Reserve officials believed they were close to achieving their inflation target. With interest rates scheduled for a potential cut n...
Federal Reserve is likely to scale back plans for rate cuts because of persistent inflationThe Fed's rate policies typically have a significant impact on the costs of mortgages, auto loans, credit card rates and other forms of con...
Driven by consumers, US inflation grows more persistentPrices are no longer rising because a few categories have skyrocketed in cost. Instead, inflation has now spread more widely through the ec...
Global central banks ramp up inflation fightInflation has surged across many advanced and developing economies since early 2021 as strong demand for goods collided with shortages brou...
Here’s what you need to know about America’s super-hot inflationAmericans are confronting more expensive food, fuel and housing, and some are grasping for answers about what's causing the price burst, ho...
Global economy sinks deeper into turmoil as Fed prepares to raise ratesFed officials have held interest rates near zero since March 2020 and are expected to raise them for the first time since 2018 on Wednesday.
Fed expected to signal start of monetary policy shift debateUS job growth has been weaker than expected in the intervening weeks, but inflation has run hotter - a worst-of-both-worlds outcome that ha...
Fed mulls shift in bond buying program: FOMC decision-day guideEconomists say the Fed may deliver fresh guidance on its asset purchases, now $120 billion a month, tying how long the buying will continue...
Whether Trump wins or Biden does, the next American President faces a troubled economyAnd the coronavirus is still surging across most of the United States. Nearly 6,000 people died last week, and there's growing concern that...
Oil slump worsens lowflation risks central banks can’t ignoreThe question now is whether they have the capacity to respond as strongly as needed.
Fed likely to defy history with rates steady through electionsFed has changed policy in one direction or another in each of the last 10 presidential polling years.
Fed leaves October cut on table, and questions about what’s nextLast time the Fed reduced rates three times while the economy was growing was in 1998.
Geopolitical risks, not local issues, put US in a limboPowell is expected to deliver his latest thinking on the outlook when he speaks to the National Association for Business Economics in Denve...