Federal Reserve

Monthly job creation has been steadily growing for more than a year, but there's one piece of the employment picture missing: Wage growth.

Former Federal Reserve Chief Ben Bernanke's new blog for the Brookings Institution, the first entry of which was published on Monday, is an exercise in rhetorical balance -- and you can learn a lot, just probably not what you thought you wanted.

Balance will be achieved in the gradual process employed for raising rates once the initial increase is announced later this year.

Opinion: FSOC can’t measure progress and doesn’t know its target, two good reasons that the U.S. may wish it left macroprudential regulation in the land of academic theories.

A modest rebound in gas costs and broad gains in other categories lifted consumer prices for the first time in four months, a sign inflation may be stabilizing.

Influential Federal Reserve Official Stanley Fischer on Monday sent an even louder and clearer message to markets that a rate hike is imminent, "likely" by end of year.  

The Fed-induced energy bubble is bursting, a bubble that helped mask weaknesses in the economic recovery.

The word ‘patient’ may have been removed but the sentiment remains.

The Federal Reserve's policy-setting board starts its two-day meeting Tuesday, and despite all the attention on the looming decision on rate hikes, how they will move higher is far more important than when.

Every investor's eyes will be focused on the Federal Reserve's policy statement and whether the word ‘patient’ stays in or is removed from a statement following a two-day meeting among Federal Open Market Committee members.

To be patient, or not to be patient? Could the word's removal from next week's FOMC statement bring out the Street's 'seven deadly vices?'

Most of the government bureaucrats, the folks ‘giving’ the test, couldn't find their way out of a financial paper bag.

Fed Chair Janet Yellen said Wednesday that any additional oversight by elected officials would leave the Fed – and ultimately monetary policy -- vulnerable to political agendas.

The highlight of next week’s economic calendar will be two days of testimony by Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen before Congress. Housing data and a GDP report are also on tap.

The Federal Reserve on Thursday announced that the results of the latest round of bank stress tests will be released on March 5 at 4:30 p.m.  

The most recent statement from the policy-setting Federal Open Markets Committee was a study in cognitive dissonance.

Despite an historic stimulus program aimed at solving deflation in the eurozone and other global market turbulence, the Federal Reserve is not likely to rock the economic boat with its FOMC statement due out Wednesday.

The Federal Reserve meets next week and the focus will once again be the timing of interest rate hikes. Also out next week is important housing data and a report on GDP.

Despite there being a bigger surplus in 2012 to 2013, the price of oil back then did not plunge as much or as fast as it has since the summer. What gives?

U.S. wholesale prices fell in December by the largest amount in more than three years, reflecting the biggest monthly decline in the cost of gasoline in six years.