So what makes the Beige Book stand out in a deluge of hard economic numbers? “A lot of the data that we get on the economy just lags,” said Bill English, a Yale finance professor and a ...

The U.S. economy remains in an expansion but is experiencing notable signs of a slowdown over the past month with recession concerns rising, according to the Federal Reserve’s “beige book ...

The U.S. economy has contracted over the past six weeks ... In its periodic “Beige Book” summary of conditions, the central bank noted that “economic activity has declined slightly since ...

The survey, known as the Beige Book, said the economy has softened since the previous report at the end of summer. The latest survey covers the period of Oct. 6 to Nov. 17. Jeffry Bartash is a ...

Overall, the economy is still growing but a slowdown is becoming more likely, the report showed. The Federal Reserve's 'Beige Book' report on the economy was shot through with the word ...

The grim nature of the Beige Book reports hasn't been matched by national economic data. For instance, retail sales were stronger than expected in September, and the U.S. economy added 254,000 ...

The U.S. economy got a short-term boost from buyers ... policy was pervasive across reports," the Fed's so-called Beige Book said. The Beige Book is produced eight times a year to help guide ...