By Keith Fitz-Gerald Contributing Editor In a column just a few weeks ago, I wrote to you and explained that I thought the odds were high that Fed...
By Jason Simpkins Staff Writer Hoping to tighten the belt on its rapidly bloating economy, the People's Bank of China on Friday raised interest rates...
Staff Reports July was a good month for U.S. exports. According to Tuesday’s report from the Commerce Department, the exportation of U.S. good...
In several of my economic-analysis reports leading up to - and immediately following - the address that U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke...
During a widely anticipated speech in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, last Friday, U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke acknowledged the ongoing...
When Fed Chairman Ben S. Bernanke addresses the Kansas City Fed's annual economic symposium in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, today (Friday), he’ll have to...
By Jason Simpkins The U.S. Federal Reserve cut the discount rate to 5.75% Friday, and in a statement indicated that it is "prepared to act as needed...
Global investors should take heed: Japan's economy continues to be much stronger than it...
By Keith Fitz-GeraldContributing Editor “Will it be enough?” That’s not a question. That’s the question. And it was being asked all around...
President George Bush last week predicted that robust tax collections would cause the U.S. budget deficit to shrink to $205 billion this year, the...
there are some problems within the U.S. economy and its accompanying financial system that are serious enough to merit ongoing vigilance - and that...
Though prognostications about the overall health of the U.S. housing market remain bleak, and interest rates have hit their highest level in nearly a...
Despite an abysmal housing market and a timid stock market, inflation remains the chief concern of Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S....
Bond guru William H. Gross believes the fallout from the subprime mortgage crisis will spread beyond the housing sector, inducing the Fed to cut...
China is moving to tame its out-of-control trade surplus - China could end up with U.S. investors facing higher interest rates, those Fed-engineered...
