Economic Indicators

Most Federal Reserve officials agreed last month they could begin slowing their aggressive bond-buying program as soon as November, the first step that policymakers will take to dialing back pandemic-era support for the U.S. economy.

U.S. inflation accelerated last month and remained at its highest rate in over a decade, with price increases from pandemic-related labor and materials shortages rippling through the economy.

Millions of retirees and other Americans receiving Social Security benefits in 2022 are set to receive the biggest payment increase in four decades, following a pandemic-driven inflation spike.

Surging inflation and supply chain disruptions are hampering the global economic recovery from the coronavirus pandemic, the International Monetary Fund warned on Tuesday.

The U.S. economy appears to be sliding into another recession based on declining consumer sentiment – even though employment and wage growth suggest otherwise, according to two academic economists.

Forbes has released its 40th annual list of the 400 wealthiest people across the world and the majority are Americans.

The August jobs report shows the U.S. added 194,000 jobs. Here's why economists were disappointed, and what that means for interest rates.

America’s employers added just 194,000 jobs in September, the second straight month of disappointing payroll growth as the spread of COVID-19 continued to dampen the labor market's recovery from the pandemic.

United Airlines announced Thursday that it would fly its biggest domestic schedule since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said he would press ahead with his government’s pledge to end the influx of low-paid migrant workers despite the country’s labor shortages, describing it as a radical change for the British economy.

New Zealand largely kept out COVID-19 by closing to the outside world, a policy accompanied by stimulus to keep the economy moving. Now the resulting labor shortages and surging demand, notably for housing, have led it to become one of the first developed economies to raise interest rates since the pandemic began.

It reportedly took oil workers more than three hours to shut down the pipeline that spilled as many as 144,000 gallons of crude oil off the coast of Huntington Beach, California over the weekend.

Rows of residential towers, some 26 stories high, stand unfinished in this provincial city about 350 miles west of Shanghai, their plastic tarps flapping in the wind. Places like Lu'an are monuments to the once-grand ambitions of China Evergrande Group.

The cost of similar Covid-19 treatments can vary by tens of thousands of dollars a patient, even within the same hospital, according to a Wall Street Journal analysis of pricing data that indicates pandemic care hasn’t escaped the complex economics of the U.S. health system.

Millions of acres have been burned this year as wildfires tore through the U.S. West, setting hundreds of structures ablaze and forcing evacuations.

Forecasters expect that September sales fell around 25% from last year as chip shortages and other parts-supply disruptions cut into the selection on dealer lots and raised prices once again to record levels. That sent many frustrated consumers to the sidelines to wait out a shortage that has hobbled the industry since late last year.

Mortgage applications turned lower last week as Treasury yields spiked following last week’s FOMC meeting.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer says Democrats are prepared to raise the debt ceiling on their own if they can do so with a simple majority.

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen told Congress that the Treasury would be unable to pay all of the government’s bills if lawmakers don’t raise the federal borrowing limit by Oct. 18.

Orders for big-ticket items jumped last month as manufacturers continued to navigate the supply-chain disruptions caused by COVID-19.