Tag: price indices

The Bank of England’s decision Wednesday to buy British bonds is being portrayed as a rebuke to new Prime Minister ...

WASHINGTON—The heads of seven of the largest U.S. banks are set to face questions from Congress on hot-button issues including ...

Biden Administration officials have been claiming so confidently that inflation is under control and falling that investors may have believed ...

Janet Yellen is a distinguished economist, but her tenure as Treasury Secretary hasn’t enhanced her reputation. Her lack of influence ...

Prominent economists including Larry Summers predict a recession is coming. Half of Americans think the U.S. is already in one, ...

Markets paid close attention to a meeting of central bankers and economists in Jackson Hole, Wyo., last week for one ...

Updated Aug. 30, 2022 4:26 pm ETListen to article(2 minutes)Investors knew they would get tough anti-inflation talk from Federal Reserve ...

Government-bond yields edged higher on Friday after Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell said that signs of slowing inflation haven’t given ...

Updated Aug. 12, 2022 1:27 pm ETListen to article(2 minutes)LONDON—The U.K. economy contracted in the second quarter as households facing ...

U.S. stocks and government bonds rallied Wednesday after new data raised investors’ hopes that the pandemic era’s stubbornly high inflation might ...