Federal Reserve

WASHINGTON—Newly released transcripts show that many Federal Reserve officials had concerns in late 2015 over whether they were making a mistake in raising a key interest rate for the first ...

NEW YORK—The year 2020 was a wild one for Wall Street, bookended by the end of the longest ...

NEW YORK—The U.S. Treasuries market took investors on a bumpy ride in 2020, with yields plunging to historic ...

The Federal Reserve extended the end date for its Main Street Lending Program by eight days to process ...

The U.S. Federal Reserve’s response to the coronavirus pandemic began on Feb. 28 with a 44-word statement of ...

WASHINGTON—In about two weeks, at least 9 million jobless U.S. residents are at risk of losing the unemployment ...

WASHINGTON—The Senate on Thursday narrowly confirmed the nomination of Christopher Waller for the Federal Reserve's Board of Governors, ...

The U.S. Senate on Dec. 3 confirmed Christopher Waller to the Federal Reserve’s Board of Governors, giving him ...

The candidacy of President Donald Trump's nominee to the Federal Reserve, Judy Shelton, suffered a setback after the ...

The U.S. Federal Reserve made key adjustments last week to its Main Street Lending Program, including reducing the ...

Rep. Warren Davidson (R-Ohio), the co-chairman of the Congressional Sound Money Caucus, is warning that the Federal Reserve's ...

American household wealth has hit a historic high, with savings accounts and equity portfolios seeing a big boost ...

The federal reserve promises to keep its rate near zero, even if inflation is over 2 percent. But ...

Commentary Members of the Federal Reserve board and presidents of the Fed’s regional banks collectively let the world ...

Commentary On Sept. 16, at 11:15 am PT/2:15 pm ET, the U.S. central bank is expected to make ...

Commentary The era of federal deficit spending without an inflation spike has come to an end. Given the ...

Commentary The ink had hardly dried on the CARES Act, and already there were calls for new rounds ...

WASHINGTON—The Federal Reserve unveiled on Aug. 27 a major policy change that tolerates higher inflation, a move that ...

Kansas City Federal Reserve President Esther George said in multiple interviews that, despite the risk of a double-dip ...

In Kenosha, Wisconsin, businesses are preparing for another night of riots. We hear from a local non-profit on ...

The U.S. economy continued to expand in July, though at a slower pace than in June, suggesting a ...

Commentary Recently, the price of gold, the price of U.S. Treasury bonds, and the S&P 500 index—which measures the ...

Federal Reserve officials warned of "extremely elevated" levels of uncertainty around the economic outlook and said they expect ...

The Fed seems pessimistic about economic recovery. We have analysis on the July meeting minutes release today. Will ...

Americans are doing more shopping. Retail sales continued to increase last month. Now they're even higher than they ...

Eric Rosengren, president of the Boston Federal Reserve, said Wednesday that insufficient state-level measures to contain COVID-19 not ...

Commentary A former Federal Reserve employee made an astonishing admission in January. Adam Posen—who holds a Harvard University doctorate ...