The Federal Reserve is an independent organization, meant to be insulated from politics, and the Supreme Court suggested this ...

Mortgage rates rose again this week, indicating that last week's rise — after five straight weeks of decline — may have signaled a turning point. The average rate on a 30-year fixed-rate mortgage rose ...

Just as baseball teams decide to be "buyers" or "sellers" at midseason, households and businesses should assess their economic outlook to determine whether to spend and invest or save resources.

Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco President Mary Daly said she still thinks it’s reasonable for policymakers to plan on ...

Emerging markets debt outlook called for steady growth, manageable inflation, and resilience in the face of geopolitical ...

Former Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers warned that President Donald Trump’s bid to assert control over the Federal ...

The Federal Reserve's] hesitancy to cut rates, I think, is actually … quite a mark against them,” former Fed governor Kevin Warsh said.

Wall Street is hanging near its records following some better-than-expected updates on the economy and a mixed set of profit ...

President Donald Trump may ultimately get his wish for lower interest rates, but it isn’t likely to be the result of his ...

The independence of central banks, which allows policymakers to operate free from political meddling, is considered ...

Monetary policymakers have held off on lower interest rates for months, citing the risk of tariff-induced inflation. Several ...

Businesses across the economy are passing increased input costs from tariffs along to consumers in the form of higher prices, the Federal Reserve’s latest anecdotal survey of domestic economic ...