Data on employment and consumer prices for November will offer some recent insight into the state of the economy.

Current above-target inflation does not reflect underlying supply and demand dynamics that are generating price increases ...

South Africans are showing growing confidence in the Reserve Bank’s ability to manage inflation. South Africans are showing ...

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There’s any number of directions tariff rates could go—a small increase, a big increase, no increase—from here forward. And depending on that, there’s a lot of different directions that monetary ...

Fed officials explained their opposition to the central bank’s decision this week to cut interest rates by a quarter of a ...

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Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell’s comments Wednesday appeared to heighten financial experts’ fears that tariffs on goods imported to the U.S. could bring about an economic condition known as ...

Inflation appeared nearly defeated just a few months ago, but price hikes started accelerating again, led in particular by rising egg prices and fuel costs. A nation that has grown weary of inflation ...

Mexico’s prices rose much less than expected earlier this month while the economy grew modestly in the second quarter according to data published Friday, raising odds of another interest rate cut in ...