The slowing growth and stubborn inflation picture emerging in the U.S. economy may not be quite a nightmare scenario for the Federal Reserve, but it at least could make for some restless sleep. First-quarter results released Thursday showed the U.S. economy slugging along at a 1.6% annualized pace, the...
U.S. economic growth was much weaker than expected to start the year and prices rose at a faster pace, the Commerce Department reported Thursday.Gross domestic product, a broad measure of goods and services produced in the January-through-March period, increased at a 1.6% annualized pace when adjusted for seasonality and...
The U.S. economy likely expanded at a solid pace in the first three months of the year and perhaps even better than Wall Street expects, while still below the robust level that closed 2023. Gross domestic product, the sum of all goods and services produced across the sprawling domestic...
US Federal Reserve Board Chairman Jerome Powell arrives to testify at a House Financial Services Committee hearing on the "Federal Reserve's Semi-Annual Monetary Policy Report," on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, March 6, 2024. Mandel Ngan | Afp | Getty ImagesWith the economy humming along and the stock market, despite...
Xinhua News Agency | Xinhua News Agency | Getty ImagesCalling the state of the U.S. jobs market these days stable seems like an understatement considering the latest data coming out of the Labor Department.That's because most of the past several weeks have shown that first-time claims for unemployment benefits...
One of the International Monetary Fund's top economists signals little risk of a global recession, despite the ongoing rumblings of geopolitical uncertainty.The Washington DC-based institute this week nudged its global growth outlook slightly higher to 3.2% in 2024 and projects the same rate in 2025."When we do the risk...
Financial Counsellor and Director of the Monetary and Capital Markets Department Tobias Adrian hold the press briefing of the Global Financial Stability Report at the International Monetary Fund during the 2024 Spring Meetings of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank Group in Washington DC, United States...
Inflation in the U.K. eased to 3.2% in March, the Office for National Statistics said on Wednesday.That was slightly higher than the forecast from economists polled by Reuters of 3.1%, but was down from 3.4% in February.Food prices provided the biggest downward drag on the headline rate, the ONS...
Crowds walk below neon signs on Nanjing Road. The street is the main shopping district of the city and one of the world's busiest shopping districts.Nikada | E+ | Getty ImagesThe International Monetary Fund on Tuesday slightly raised its global growth forecast, saying the economy had proven "surprisingly resilient"...
U.S. Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell holds a press conference following a two-day meeting of the Federal Open Market Committee on interest rate policy in Washington, U.S., March 20, 2024.Elizabeth Frantz | ReutersThe U.S. economy could be headed for stormy waters in 2025 if the Federal Reserve does not...