A Federal Reserve Governor urged policymakers to complicate the relationship between inflation and unemployment in the 2025 Whittington Lecture at the Georgetown University McCourt School of Public ...

The Labor Department says staffing shortages reduced its ability to conduct its massive monthly survey, forcing it to turn to ...

Recent research has identified periods when the Federal Reserve intentionally acted to slow inflation when it exceeded desired levels. The success of these disinflation attempts reveals the extent of ...

The Labor Department has cut back on the inflation data it collects because of the Trump administration’s government hiring ...

The markets have experienced a week filled with cautious observation and data releases that could shape economic decisions in ...

Wall Street will be watching for the latest labor data in Friday's jobs report for the month of May as investors speculate on ...

Inflation and employment data will contribute significantly to whether this happens or not. The next Federal Reserve meeting will offer further insights into the direction of U.S. monetary policy.

The Federal Reserve announced Thursday it was lowering ... In a note to clients, Omair Sharif, president of Inflation Insights, said that may signal a new willingness by the Fed to forgo a widely ...

WASHINGTON— The Federal Reserve kept its key interest rate unchanged again Wednesday and scaled back its forecast from three rate cuts to just one this year after an inflation pickup in early 2024.

The Federal Reserve’s preferred measure of US inflation ... to stand in their way,” Omair Sharif, an economist at Inflation Insights, said in a note on Friday. But Torsten Slok, chief ...

The Federal Reserve said Wednesday it was leaving ... managing director of Inflation Insights consultancy, said in a note to clients following Wednesday’s rate decision. A host of indicators ...

Major U.S. stock indexes were headed mostly lower in Wednesday's final hour of trading after minutes of the Federal Reserve's May 6-7 meeting appeared to emphasize the risks of higher inflation. In an ...