The Federal Reserve Board on Wednesday signaled its three-year-drive to tighten monetary policy may be at an end amid a suddenly cloudy outlook for the U.S. economy due to global headwinds and impasses over...
The month-long government shutdown cost the U.S. economy $6 billion, according to Friday estimates by S&P Global Ratings. That’s $300 million more than Trump’s demand for $5.7 billion to build the southern border wall. Morgan...
Existing-home sales ran at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 4.99 million in December, the National Association of Realtors said Tuesday, the lowest since November 2015. Sales were down 6.4 percent for the month, and 10.3...
China announced Monday that its official economic growth came in at 6.6 percent in 2018, the slowest pace since 1990. Huileng Tan of CNBC.com had the news: That announcement was highly anticipated by many around the...
St. Louis Public Radio, an NPR affiliate, is seeking a reporter to cover efforts throughout the region to expand the economy and grow more jobs. This position will delve into what government, university and...
Federal Reserve reporter Craig Torres of Bloomberg News spoke with the David Beckworth of the Macro Musings podcast to discuss how he visits factories to understand what is going on in the economy and labor. Here is an...
The Economic Policy Institute has hired economics journalist Pedro Nicolai da Costa as the institute’s new communications director. Da Costa has been writing about economics and financial markets since 2001, at Reuters, the Wall Street Journal, and Business...
Jerome H. Powell, the Federal Reserve chairman, reiterated Thursday that the Fed plans to evaluate the health of the economy before moving ahead with any new interest rate increases. Binyamin Appelbaum of The New York Times had...
U.S. employers hired the most workers in 10 months in December while boosting wages, pointing to sustained strength in the economy that could ease fears of a sharp slowdown in growth. Lucia Mutikani of Reuters...
The Gazette, based in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, is seeking a business reporter to join our news reporting team. This reporter won’t be focused on earnings reports, but will instead focus on context-based reporting about...
