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Asian stocks were mostly higher Wednesday following overnight gains on Wall Street as investors looked ahead to a likely U.S. interest rate hike.

On the day when Janet Yellen will hold her final news conference as Federal Reserve chair, the Fed has left little doubt what it plans to do Wednesday: Raise its benchmark interest rate for the third time this year.

Wall Street continued to march higher on Tuesday, as bank stocks and Boeing helped push the Dow and S&P 500 to new records.

Shares were mostly lower in Asia on Tuesday as investors stepped back after several days of advances, erasing early gains.

U.S. stock indexes edged higher in early trading Monday as gains in technology and energy companies outweighed losses among makers of packaged foods and other consumer goods.

The latest on developments in financial markets (All times local): 9:35 a.m.

Investors seem certain about this: The Federal Reserve is going to raise interest rates this week for the third time this year.

Incoming Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell appears set to let an expected trillion=dollar tax cut run its course through the economy.

The Federal Reserve is widely expected to deliver its third and final rate increase of 2017 in the coming week and the stock market does not seem to even blink an eye about it.

The Federal Reserve Bank of New York will soon narrow its search for candidates to fill what is considered the Fed’s second-most powerful job after having scouted a diverse field, from a local business school dean to a former Fed governor.

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The Senate Banking Committee has given approval to President Donald Trump's selection of Jerome Powell to be the next chairman of the Federal Reserve.

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The U.S. Federal Reserve’s newly appointed chairman for supervision, Randy Quarles, cautioned business leaders and central banks against adopting new payment system technologies too quickly on Thursday.

Official figures show that the unemployment rate in the 19-country eurozone has fallen to its lowest level since January 2009, further evidence that the buoyant economic recovery across the region is being felt in most corners of the labor market.

South Korea's central bank raises key interest rate to 1.50 percent from record low of 1.25 percent.

While the U.S. economy has experienced a solid recovery since the Great Recession, stagnant wages and low inflation have baffled economists. But according to the Fed’s latest Beige Book, this may be turning around.

Janet Yellen made one of her final appearances on Capitol Hill.

The Latest on Fed Chair Janet Yellen's testimony to the Joint Economic Committee (all times local): ___ 8 a.m.

Jerome Powell, U.S. President Donald Trump's choice to lead the Federal Reserve, told a Senate panel that after years of adding new rules it was time to take a pause and review what has been done.