The Federal Reserve is tightening policy, but M2 money stock is rising, supporting the US economy and stock markets despite ...

Bond yields have already fallen after the Fed’s jumbo rate cut and priced in future reductions, perhaps to excess. Better ...

In September, the U.S. labor market demonstrated resilience with a notable decrease in unemployment, driven by ...

In July, the bull market expanded beyond large-cap companies and technology issues to include small-cap stocks.

Minutes of the Federal Open Market Committee meeting last month reveal significant discussion about how policymakers should respond to a potential trade war between the United States and China.

They were not, though, in a panic or worried about an imminent recession. Instead, they were thinking that the old interest ...

At 8:30 a.m. tomorrow, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics will release its monthly nonfarm payrolls report for September. This occurs on the first Friday of each month, detailing how many jobs the ...

The Federal Open Market Committee on Wednesday cut its short-term interest rate target by 50 basis points, and the question is whether to believe what Chairman Jerome Powell says or what he does.

"On the face of this the Fed should be hiking rates with these sorts of figures, not cutting rates," Economist James ...

The Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) is the monetary policy-setting body of the U.S. central bank. It meets eight times ...

You can thank, at least in part, a group of policymakers at the U.S. central bank known as the Federal Open Market Committee (or FOMC for short). This committee’s decisions affect everything ...