Tag: Janet Yellen
U.S. jobless filings at three-week low amid strong labor market
NEW YORK - The United States job market continues to show signs of strength, as the number of Americans filing for unemployment benefits fell...
As Fed readies rate rise, inflation slips further from goal
NEW YORK - The worst of the price war in the U.S. mobile-phone market may be over. But the lurch down in inflation it...
Analysis: Fed plan for gradual rate hikes is starting to look...
NEW YORK - Investors and the Federal Reserve may have grown too comfortable with gradualism - raising interest rates at a pace that is...
Fed keeps rates on hold as slowdown in growth deemed temporary
WASHINGTON - Federal Reserve officials left interest rates unchanged while signaling they’ll look past a recent deceleration in U.S. economic growth and stay on...
Yellen may see inflation risk in deficit-busting Trump tax cuts
WASHINGTON - What President Donald Trump giveth to the economy with massive tax cuts, Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen may be tempted to taketh...
Here’s why robust U.S. job market isn’t producing better pay
WASHINGTON - Growth in Americans’ wages has been leveling off lately, contrary to expectations that a steadily falling jobless rate will quickly lead to...
Yellen says Fed’s focus has shifted to holding growth gains
WASHINGTON - Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen said the U.S. central bank’s task has shifted from a post-crisis exercise of healing the economy to...
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