A strong labor market isn’t enough to win elections. That reality could shape how the government responds to the next ...

Janet L. Yellen, the outgoing Treasury secretary, urged lawmakers to raise the debt limit and protect the full faith and ...

Federal employees and others in the capital have grown attached to work-from-home arrangements. But hybrid work may disappear ...

As the Federal Reserve’s premeeting blackout period begins, it is a good moment for a look at how Fedspeak and economic data ...

Inflation is still there, according to the December Consumer Price Index (CPI) report, with the annual rate marginally ...

On a high note, the U.S. job market ended 2024, adding 256,000 jobs in December and pushing the unemployment rate down to 4.1 ...

Inflation has been around since the days of Alexander the Great and it's not showing any signs of going away. In combating ...

The Federal Reserve said Friday that it is leaving an international grouping of central banks that focused on how the ...

Retail sales in the United States edged higher in December, signaling that consumers remain willing and able to spend despite ...

The U.S. Federal Reserve will hold interest rates steady on Jan. 29 and resume cutting in March, according to a slim majority ...

During the week ended Jan. 15 , investors withdrew a net $8.23 billion from U.S. equity funds, the largest outflow since ...

The central bank’s recent infusion of financial-market brawn includes Beth Hammack, who worked for three decades at Goldman ...