US Consumers See Worse Job Market, Muted Inflation in Fed Survey

Americans’ perceptions of the job market worsened in October while their expectations for inflation edged lower, according to ...

NY Fed survey finds less worry about inflation, more about jobs

By Michael S. Derby NEW YORK (Reuters) -Americans last month said that they expected moderating near-term inflation pressures ...

The Fed’s Recent Rate Decisions Have Been Divisive. It Is Likely to Get Worse.

The last three policy votes have featured some form of dissent, as officials grapple with how to weigh a softening labor ...

Is the Fed’s Inflation Target Still 2%?

The Federal Reserve’s policymakers ought to ask why, with inflation stuck at 3%, investors have so confidently priced in at ...

Fed's appetite for further easing, higher inflation in focus

The U.S. Federal Reserve last month signaled that interest rates are likely to stay at zero through 2023, vowing to wait on ...

Inflation Rose 3% in September. What That Means for the Fed.

Consumer inflation picked up less than expected in September, which should help Federal Reserve officials justify interest-rate cuts to help the weakening job market. The consumer price index climbed ...

Fed's Goolsbee Points to a Troublesome Sign in Inflation Data

Before the U.S. government shutdown blacked out federal data about inflation and jobs for more than a month, a couple of readings spooked Austan Goolsbee, the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of ...

Fed 'strongly committed' to bring down inflation 'expeditiously,' Powell says

The Federal Reserve is "strongly committed" to bringing down inflation that is running at a 40-year high and policymakers are acting "expeditiously to do so," U.S. central bank chief Jerome Powell ...