Since officials first cut rates in September, inflation has made uneven progress back down toward the central bank’s target.
Rising food and housing costs have hit the lowest-income Americans the hardest in recent years.
Some statistics illustrate why Americans still feel crunched even though traditional metrics make economic conditions seem ...
In this post, I will begin by looking at movements in treasury rates, across maturities, during 2024, and the resultant ...
Entering 2025, models from forecasting companies like Trading Economics anticipate inflation rates between 2.4% and 2.9% ...
The Federal Reserve left interest rates unchanged on Wednesday at a target range of 4.25% - 4.50%. This was widely expected, but the central bank also took a more hawkish stance on future rate cuts, ...
raising the perception that the Fed will need to hold rates at higher levels in order to combat sticky inflation. To underline the point, the chart below outlines changes in the Fed's projections ...
Concerns about inflation have been pegged as a major catalyst for big swings in longer Treasury yields in recent months. The ...
The Fed is expected to cut interest rates in 2025, perhaps two or three times, with greater uncertainty for the second half ...
The Bank of England must contend with a slowdown in Britain's economy but also stubborn inflation pressures when it considers ...
The latest survey on consumer sentiment from the University of Michigan suggests long-term inflation expectations are anchored ahead of the Federal Reserve’s policy meeting next week, according to LPL ...