The International Monetary Fund said protectionism and new trade wars could weigh on growth. By Alan Rappeport Reporting from Washington The global economy has managed to avoid falling into a ...

The new year may be off to a good start for the U.S. economy, but Federal Reserve officials aren’t yet celebrating their record on inflation. “We are fully aware that we’re not there yet,” Federal ...

The latest reading of the Federal Reserve’s preferred inflation measure should confirm that price growth remained stubbornly above the central bank’s annual target. The last round of the Fed’s ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — With its larger-than-usual half-point cut to its key interest rate last week, the Federal Reserve underscored its belief that it’s all but conquered inflation after three long years.

Over the past year, Americans saw inflation rates considerably lower than what we saw just a couple of years earlier. And while the inflation rate generally remains low, it saw a slight uptick in ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Reserve on Wednesday cut its benchmark interest rate by an unusually large half-point, a dramatic shift after more than two years of high rates that helped tame inflation ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. WASHINGTON (AP) — With its larger-than-usual ...

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