Data showing temperate consumer inflation in April does not necessarily reflect the impact of rising U.S. import tariffs, ...

making data dependency more dangerous.” For now, however, Powell thinks key measures of economic conditions have bought the Fed valuable time. The jobs report for April came in stronger than ...

The US Federal Reserve is expected to keep interest rates unchanged in its meeting today, May 7, amid mounting pressure ...

The Fed has emphasized the need to wait and see if the weakness in soft data translates into weakness in hard data. Investors should prepare for a higher-volatility environment marked by fragile ...

is creating challenges and generating data confusion among market participants and Federal Reserve officials. Even as households and firms turn increasingly pessimistic, the economic slowdown they ...

"There's not a lot of data between now and June," when the Fed next meets to set interest rates, she said in an interview on the sidelines of a monetary policy conference at Stanford University's ...

"We’re always going to consider only the economic data, the outlook, the balance of risks – and that’s it." The move marked the Fed's second consecutive decision to maintain the current ...

The ‘passthrough’ of tariffs to consumer prices is a key parameter that soft data can help shed light on. The Atlanta Fed’s Business Inflation Expectations Survey in April asked how much of ...

The Federal Reserve has yet to cut interest rates in 2025 as it seeks greater clarity on the eventual effects of President ...