Economic News

By Geoffrey Smith  Investing.com -- The U.S. releases its official labor market report for December, and the risks appear to be for an upside surprise to the consensus forecast of...

(Reuters) - Russia's rouble rose against the dollar and euro on Friday, as oil prices lifted during thin holiday trading. The rouble gained 0.55% against the dollar to 71.79 ​​by...

LONDON (Reuters) - A potential shift by the world's most dovish major central bank, inflation pressures abating, a turn in the economic outlook and oil markets suffering their...

By Geoffrey Smith  Investing.com -- China’s dash for herd immunity from COVID-19 may not be the miracle cure for its economic ills that markets seem to think. Global markets have...

By Hari Kishan BENGALURU (Reuters) - The dollar's vice grip on FX markets will loosen a bit this year, according to analysts in a Reuters poll who expect most currencies to post...

By Koh Gui Qing NEW YORK (Reuters) -U.S. stocks sank on Thursday and brought to a halt a rally in global stocks, as upbeat American jobs data after the Federal Reserve's firm...

By Karen Brettell NEW YORK (Reuters) - The dollar index hit a four-week high on Thursday after data pointed to a strong jobs market, supporting the prospect that the Federal...

(Bloomberg) -- More than half of US renters say their annual bill climbed by at least $1,200 over the past year amid a housing-market squeeze, according to the Census Bureau. About...

(Bloomberg) -- Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis President James Bullard said interest rates are getting closer to a high enough level to bring down inflation, suggesting he’s...

By Geoffrey Smith  Investing.com -- Amazon and Salesforce both announce big job cuts, deepening the retrenchment of Big Tech as the pandemic boom fades. ADP (NASDAQ:ADP) will...

By Koh Gui Qing NEW YORK (Reuters) -Global stocks and bonds closed higher on Wednesday on cautious optimism about the new year after a brutal 2022, although U.S. stocks eased off...

By Liz Moyer Investing.com -- Stocks rallied on Wednesday, taking back earlier losses as investors got to pore over the Federal Reserve's meeting minutes from December. Fed...

By Yasin Ebrahim Investing.com – Federal Reserve policymakers agreed that a sustained period of restrictive policy would be needed to cool "unacceptably high" inflation, according...

(Bloomberg) -- US job openings remained elevated in November, highlighting how a resilient labor market is likely to keep the Federal Reserve tilted toward more restrictive policy...

By Geoffrey Smith  Investing.com -- Inflation will come down by half and the British economy will grow this year, Rishi Sunak said on Wednesday in his first keynote policy speech...

(Bloomberg) -- Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis President Neel Kashkari said the US central bank has at least another percentage point of interest-rate increases to do in 2023...

By Geoffrey Smith  Investing.com -- The Federal Reserve will publish minutes of its last policy meeting in December, while we will also get the first big U.S. data releases of the...