The federal funds rate is a benchmark that influences other interest rates throughout the economy. The Federal Reserve doesn't control the federal funds rate directly. Instead, it uses various ...
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Japan's core consumer inflation accelerated for the fourth straight month in August and tracked comfortably above the central ...
"Structural behaviours in UK labour and product markets appear to have systematically embedded inflation," she said in a ...
There was a bit of nervousness ahead of the Bank of Japan's Friday policy decision. It will take investors awhile to forget the day in late July when the central bank's interest-rate hike unwound the ...
The two key equity benchmark indices, BSE Sensex and NSE Nifty50, hit new record highs tracking a rally in global markets ...
But when Stella Bugbee, the editor of the Times’s Styles section, pointed me to data showing a 64 percent surge in elective ...