Economy

The Federal Reserve spent much of 2022 and 2023 narrowly focusing on inflation as policymakers set interest rates: Prices were...

Scott Kidd didn’t expect a terribly busy job when he became the town manager of Liberty, N.C., a onetime furniture...

Ben Houchen, a regional mayor in the north of England, faces a close re-election race, partly thanks to the broader...

Federal Reserve officials left interest rates unchanged and signaled that they were wary about how stubborn inflation was proving, paving...

Federal Reserve officials left interest rates unchanged and signaled that they are wary about how stubborn inflation is proving, paving...

The red-hot labor market cooled somewhat in March, government data showed on Wednesday.Employers had 8.5 million unfilled job openings on...

Federal Reserve officials are fiercely protective of their separation from politics, but the presidential election is putting the institution on...

When prices for grocery staples surged in 2021 and 2022, some Americans who had not regularly shopped at Walmart increasingly...

More than two years after the Federal Reserve started lifting interest rates to restrain growth and weigh on inflation, businesses...

A crucial question is hanging over the American economy and the fall presidential election: Why are consumer prices still growing...