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 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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...