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Commentary Recent data indicates that the manufacturing sector is slowing, the service sector is growing slowly, the stock market is tanking, interest rates are falling, and unemployment is at an ...

Should the Federal Reserve hold back on trying to avoid a recession? Bill Dudley, a former Federal Reserve ...

With the Canadian economy in decent shape, the housing market is warming up again, and the recent sharp ...

WASHINGTON—The Federal Reserve cut interest rates on July 31 for the first time since 2008, citing concerns about ...

CHICAGO—An interest rate cut "may be warranted soon" given the rising risk to economic growth posed by global ...

WASHINGTON—The Federal Reserve announced that it had left its benchmark federal-funds rate unchanged, after its two-day policy meeting ...

WASHINGTON—The Federal Reserve is in "no rush to make a judgment" about further changes to interest rates, Fed ...

FRANKFURT, Germany—Multiple threats stalking Europe's economy mean the European Central Bank could keep interest rates at rock-bottom levels ...

WASHINGTON—The Federal Reserve raised benchmark interest rates by 25 basis points after its two-day policy meeting concluded Sept. ...

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina—Argentina's Central Bank on Aug. 30 increased its benchmark interest rate to 60 percent—the world's highest—in ...

As major central banks turn off the Electric Kool-Aid drip of easy money, we will soon find out ...

The U.S. Federal Reserve is poised to raise benchmark interest rates as soon as this week, with wide-ranging ...

The Federal Reserve (Fed) did not raise interest rates at a meeting on July 27, despite solid economic ...

Capitalism for most people means people and corporations make the most money they can and accumulate as much ...

With the global economy faltering, governments and central banks across the world are under growing pressure to change ...

The financial world is awaiting the Federal Reserve's response to a critical question: How stable are the world's ...

Concerns over global growth were at the top of the agenda for the just concluded G-20 meeting in ...

The market couldn't claim it didn't see it coming. The Federal Reserve had been talking about raising rates ...

Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen cautioned Wednesday that global weakness and falling financial markets could depress the U.S. ...

Central banks around the globe responded to the 2007–2008 global debt crisis by reducing interest rates and loosening ...

The U.S. stock market took investors for a wild ride in 2015, but in the end it was ...

For anyone considering whether to buy a home or car, the Federal Reserve's interest rate increase Wednesday shouldn't ...

It's not as easy as pushing a button.

For the first time in seven years, the Federal Reserve has raised its target for the federal funds ...

The Federal Reserve is raising interest rates after seven years of record lows.

There is a very high chance the Federal Reserve will raise interest rates this week. So how will ...

If the Federal Reserve needed any final evidence that the economy is ready for higher interest rates, it ...