The Fed is set to hold interest rates steady, but with inflation rising amid a slowing economy, it could lower its forecast ...

Fed Chair Jerome Powell, above. Getty Images Yes, tariffs are poor economic policy. But inflation isn’t why. Think of all that inflation we didn’t get with Trump’s first-term tariffs.

The economy usually grows when interest rates are low and money is cheap to borrow, and weakens when central banks reverse this policy to tackle inflation. In certain cases, central banks may be ...

It's not uncommon for the market to decline amid an inflation surge, eating away at the returns investors get from their portfolios. When this happens, gold's relative stability becomes a must ...

The Federal Reserve kept its benchmark interest rate unchanged Wednesday and signaled that it still expects to cut rates ...

There’s no cocktail a central banker hates more than high unemployment mixed with high inflation. That cocktail, also known as stagflation, was in the limelight after the Federal Reserve’s March ...

Jerome Powell, the Fed chair, said that “further progress may be delayed” on inflation because of tariffs. Officials kept ...

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