Wall Street reacted Thursday to this week's Fed meeting, with forecasts scattered across a range of outcomes for where monetary policy heads next. Most economists for the biggest forecasting firms expect the central bank to lower benchmark interest rates sometime later this year. But the outlooks ranged from one...
People walk in the rain over London Bridge in central London. Picture date: Tuesday March 12, 2024.Lucy North - Pa Images | Pa Images | Getty ImagesThe U.K.'s "sluggish" growth prospects have put it on course to be the worst-performing economy of all advanced nations next year, according to...
The BlackRock logo is displayed at the company's headquarters in New York City on Nov. 14, 2022.Leonardo Munoz | Getty ImagesAsset manager BlackRock will launch an investment platform in Riyadh with the help of a $5 billion anchor investment from Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund, the kingdom's sovereign wealth...
A job seeker attends a Veteran Employment and Resource Fair in Long Beach, California, US, on Tuesday, Jan. 9, 2024. The Department of Labor is scheduled to release initial jobless claims figures on January 11. Eric Thayer | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesPrivate payrolls increased at a faster than expected pace...
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell prepares to testify before the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee on March, 7 2024. Kent Nishimura | Getty Images News | Getty ImagesFaced with stubborn inflation that has raised concerns about where policy is headed, the Federal Reserve has been ensnared in a...
McDonald's employee giving change to a customer.Jeffrey Greenberg | UIG | Getty ImagesSome of America's best-known corporations are saying their consumers are being pinched by inflation as prices continue rising.Inflation has dominated corporate America's discourse over the past three years following the pandemic-induced easing of monetary policy and trillions...
Grace Cary | Moment | Getty ImagesEmployee compensation costs jumped more than expected to start the year, providing another danger sign about persistent inflation.The employment cost index, which measures worker salaries and benefits, gained 1.2% in the first quarter, the Labor Department reported Tuesday. That was higher than 0.9%...
People walking in the streets of Montmartre, Paris, France, on April 23, 2024. Nurphoto | Nurphoto | Getty ImagesPrice rises in the euro area held steady at 2.4% in April, while the economy returned to growth in the first quarter, according to flash figures published Tuesday.Headline inflation of 2.4% was...
International Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva speaks during a briefing on the Global Policy Agenda at IMF headquarters during the IMF/World Bank Spring Meetings in Washington, DC on April 18, 2024.Mandel Ngan | Afp | Getty ImagesKristalina Georgieva, the managing director of the International Monetary Fund, played...
Saudi Arabia's economy minister rejected recent reports that the kingdom's $1.5 trillion NEOM megaproject, a futuristic desert development on the Red Sea coast, is scaling back some of its plans."All projects are moving full steam ahead," Faisal Al Ibrahim told CNBC's Dan Murphy on Monday at the World Economic...