Recent indicators suggest that economic activity has continued to expand at a solid pace. The unemployment rate has ...

If it ain't broke, don't fix it. The central bank yet again opted to keep interest rates steady Wednesday as policymakers ...

The Fed is in a bind. The central bank seems to be acknowledging that the fight against inflation isn’t over just yet. At the ...

The uncertainty that has clouded the economic forecasts seems to be lifting—at least according to Fed officials. While ...

The Federal Reserve’s latest dot plot of interest-rate expectations shows a median projection of two rate cuts in 2025, the ...

Federal Reserve officials raised their inflation forecasts in the June Summary of Economic Projections, reflecting a slower ...

Uncertainty about tariffs and inflation appear to be taking their toll on the economy. Members of the Federal Reserve’s ...

Fed officials expect unemployment to tick higher than previously expected by the end of the year and to stay elevated. In the ...

Federal Reserve officials on Wednesday collectively penciled in two quarter-point cuts to interest rates by the end of 2025, ...

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The stock market perked up slightly as Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell began his 2:30 p.m. ET press conference. The S&P 500 was up 0.4%. The Dow was up 160 points, or 0.4%. The Nasdaq Composite ...

More than 700 people were still missing following flash floods that struck central Nigeria's Niger state last month killing at least 200 people, the state government said Wednesday.