Economic News

By Geoffrey Smith Investing.com -- The Federal Reserve has to decide between price stability and financial stability. Bank stocks recover after Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen's...

By Geoffrey Smith  Investing.com -- Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen is set to bolster hopes of more official support for U.S. banks later, in a speech that talks up the importance...

By Geoffrey Smith  Investing.com -- The Federal Reserve starts a two-day meeting at which it will have to decide whether financial stability risks trump inflation risks. Bank...

By Ambar Warrick Investing.com -- U.S. officials are considering ways to temporarily expand Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation coverage to cover all bank deposits, Bloomberg...

By Yasin Ebrahim Investing.com -- The Federal Reserve is expected to opt for the "safest" path and meet the market expectations of a quarter-point hike later this week as the risk...

(Bloomberg) -- For all the focus on whether the Federal Reserve is about to pause its interest-rate hikes, there’s another critical policy decision sure to draw plenty of attention...

By Scott Kanowsky  Investing.com -- European Central Bank president Christine Lagarde defended the ECB's decision last week to raise interest rates but refrain from making...

By Scott Kanowsky  Investing.com -- The German economy is anticipated to shrink in the first quarter of 2023, the country's central bank, the Bundesbank, said in a monthly report...

By Geoffrey Smith  Investing.com -- Credit Suisse collapses into the arms of local rival UBS in a $3 billion deal that rattles bondholders by wiping out $17B in junior debt,...

By Ambar Warrick Investing.com -- China’s central bank held its key loan prime rate (LPR) at record lows on Monday, keeping monetary conditions largely accommodative as the country...

(Bloomberg) -- US short-term inflation expectations fell in early March to the lowest level in nearly two years and long-run views also eased, but consumer sentiment still fell due...

By Scott Kanowsky  Investing.com -- Inflationary pressures will require many central banks around the world to keep interest rates higher well into next year, according to a report...

By Geoffrey Smith  Investing.com -- Eurozone banks continued to run down their loans from the European Central Bank on Friday, extending a gradual reduction of the ECB's balance...

By Geoffrey Smith  Investing.com -- The Chinese central bank loosened a key instrument in its monetary policy Friday, aiming to support an economy facing challenges from a slowdown...

By Geoffrey Smith  Investing.com -- Don’t be fooled. This is not 2008. Heck, it probably isn’t even 2007. That’s the good news. The bad news is - that doesn’t mean there won’t be a...

(Bloomberg) -- Fears that anything but a half-point hike would trigger panic among investors helped settle the European Central Bank’s interest-rate decision on Thursday, according...

By Geoffrey Smith Investing.com -- The European Central Bank emerged intact on Thursday from what some fear could be the first salvoes of a new financial crisis. At her regular...

By Geoffrey Smith Investing.com -- The European Central Bank raised its key interest rates by 50 basis points on Thursday, pressing on with its fight to tame inflation despite...

By Geoffrey Smith  Investing.com -- The Swiss National Bank hands Credit Suisse a $54 billion lifeline, causing a sharp rebound in its stock and bonds, and bringing forth a sigh...

By Senad Karaahmetovic Morgan Stanley economists believe the Fed will decide to increase its benchmark rate by 25 basis points next Wednesday as it continues to fight consistent...

By Geoffrey Smith Investing.com -- The bond market swings back to expecting a 25 basis point hike from the Federal Reserve next week as the kneejerk reaction to last week's bank...

(Bloomberg) -- Wall Street may be grappling with financial fallout from a new banking crisis, but the beast of persistent and elevated US inflation is proving tough to...

By Senad Karaahmetovic Prices rose 0.4% in February and 6% from a year-ago period, in line with economists’ expectations, today’s inflation figures released by BLS showed. Core CPI...

Investing.com Staff Vital Knowledge analysts' latest thoughts on the Fed and in the aftermath of today's in-line CPI report. "Like the jobs report on Friday, this CPI release isn’t...

By Geoffrey Smith Investing.com -- Just in case there's not enough volatility in your life, the U.S. releases consumer inflation data at 08:30 ET (12:30 GMT). Whether it will...

By Geoffrey Smith  Investing.com -- The collapse of three U.S. banks over the last week may deliver the long-awaited 'pivot' from the Federal Reserve as early as next week,...

By Yasin Ebrahim Investing.com -- The Federal Reserve could cut rates at its meeting next week and suspend its quantitative tightening program as the market selloff suggests the...

(Bloomberg) -- Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell’s strategy to speed up the central bank’s inflation-fighting efforts is unraveling in the wake of Silicon Valley Bank’s...

By Geoffrey Smith  Investing.com -- Bond yields in the U.S. and Europe plunged on Monday as markets abruptly reassessed the outlook for central bank action in the wake of weekend...

By Geoffrey Smith  Investing.com -- Bailouts are back. Tech bros and crypto firms breathe a sigh of relief as the Feds step in to guarantee all of the deposits at Silicon Valley...

By Noreen Burke Investing.com – Amid the fallout from the biggest bank failure since the 2008 financial crisis investors will be focusing on U.S. inflation data in the coming week...

By Yasin Ebrahim Investing.com -- The Federal Reserve’s fingerprints are all over the dramatic collapse of Silicon Valley Bank, and some are calling on the central bank to put...

(Bloomberg) -- The US federal government’s budget deficit widened in February by $262 billion, bringing the gap for the first five months of the fiscal year to $723 billion. The...

(Bloomberg) -- The US labor market continued to surprise with another month of robust job creation in February. But under the surface, the details were a bit more mixed. The good...

By Scott Kanowsky  Investing.com -- Investor expectations for a return to aggressive half-point interest rate hikes by the Federal Reserve fell on Friday, data from derivatives...