Economic Policies

U.S. bond funds posted a net outflow in the week to Nov. 24 as investors raised bets that the Federal Reserve would become more aggressive in normalizing monetary policy to ...

GENEVA—The World Trade Organization (WTO) became the first major diplomatic casualty of the new coronavirus variant on Friday ...

Atlanta Federal Reserve President Raphael Bostic said on Friday he is hopeful that the momentum of the U.S. ...

WASHINGTON/LONDON—Shares tumbled on Wall Street on Friday as they reopened after Thanksgiving, while European stocks saw their biggest ...

LONDON—Euro zone money markets on Friday scaled back bets on a rate hike from the European Central Bank ...

TOKYO—Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida on Friday urged companies whose earnings have recovered to pre-pandemic levels to raise ...

FRANKFURT—The European Central Bank must keep its policy options open beyond a crucial meeting in December as uncertainty ...

LONDON—The U.S. Federal Reserve will likely double the pace of tapering its monthly bond purchases from January to ...

FRANKFURT—Germany's banks are increasingly vulnerable to an overvalued property market and finance authorities should force lenders to build ...

Goldman Sachs strategists predicted in a Nov. 25 note that hotter-than-expected inflation will push the Federal Reserve to accelerate ...

LONDON—The European Union set out its third wave of reforms in six years on Thursday to try to ...

ISTANBUL—Turkey's lira was flat on Thursday after a historic slide to record lows this week that was triggered ...

New documents detailing closed-door discussions at the most recent Federal Reserve policy meeting show officials softening their "transitory" ...

The United States will sell 32 million barrels of crude from four Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) sites to ...

TAIPEI—Taiwan is looking at cooperating with three Eastern European countries on semiconductors, a minister said on Thursday, a ...

MELBOURNE/SINGAPORE—Oil prices edged down on Thursday with investors waiting to see how major producers respond to the emergency ...

BEIJING—Global stock markets mostly rose Thursday after Federal Reserve officials indicated they were ready to hike interest rates ...

A growing number of Federal Reserve policymakers indicated they would be open to speeding up the elimination of ...

News Analysis President Joe Biden has nominated current Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell to a second four-year term, ...

Enter financial repression, which generally means ways in which the government effectively gets the private sector to pay ...

Wall Street's main indexes slipped on Tuesday, with the Nasdaq lagging the most as rising Treasury yields weighed ...

TAIPEI—Taiwan and the United States discussed chip shortages and how to respond to China's economic "coercion" during the ...

President Joe Biden on Nov. 23 ordered 50 million barrels of oil released from the nation's strategic petroleum ...

U.S. stock index futures fell on Tuesday as rising Treasury yields weighed on major technology stocks, while bank ...

Fifteen Republican governors, led by Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee, have launched "Operation Open Road," an initiative that seeks ...

LONDON—Euro zone business growth unexpectedly accelerated this month but another wave of coronavirus infections and new restrictions, alongside ...

LONDON—The dollar index held near 16-month highs on Tuesday after Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell was picked for ...