The Federal Reserve did what many thought it couldn’t achieve in 2024, and yet in one respect it still ended the year the way it started — worried about stubborn price pressures.
American consumers are feeling less confident in December, a business research group says. The Conference Board said Monday ...
We live in a generation filled with Ebenezer Scrooges, the leading character of Charles Dickens’s classic, A Christmas Carol.
Having successfully steered inflation lower while avoiding a hard landing, most developed-market central banks are now ...
The Conference Board's Expectations Index dropped to a five-month low in December, nearing a threshold that typically signals ...
Despite the highly anticipated 25 basis point (0.25 percentage point) reduction in the Fed Funds Rate announced by the Fed on Wednesday, financial markets tanked.
Stress tests are intended to ensure banks have enough capital to withstand financial or economic downturns that might otherwise threaten their solvency. The Fed said that the current iteration of ...
Apollo Management dropped its 2025 market risk report, and it’s not looking pretty. Fed rate hikes are back on the table, ...
The December FOMC Statement and "dot plot" signaled that the Fed is pivoting from focusing on unemployment back to controlling inflation. The signals point to the Fed pausing after two more rate cuts ...
Nearly 50% of consumers also thought new tariffs threatened by President-elect Donald Trump would raise their cost of living next year. The good news? Consumers expect inflation in the year ahead to ...
Perhaps the biggest risk to the stock market in 2025, Torsten Sløk says, is that a rebound in inflation will spark the Fed to ...