Economy

Skyline view of the City of London financial district. Mike Kemp | In Pictures | Getty Images LONDON — U.K. inflation cooled significantly in June, coming in below consensus expectations at 7.9% annually. Economists polled by Reuters had projected an annual rise in the headline consumer price index of 8.2%, following the hotter-than-expected 8.7% reading

In this article GSBD Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Skyline of lower Manhattan and One World Trade Center in New York City and the Water’s Soul sculpture on July 11, 2023, in Jersey City, New Jersey. (Photo by Gary Hershorn/Getty Images) Gary Hershorn | Corbis News | Getty Images Goldman Sachs revised down the

Michael Barr, vice chair for supervision of the board of governors of the Federal Reserve, testifies during a House Committee on Financial Services hearing on Oversight of Prudential Regulators, on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, on May 16, 2023. Mandel Ngan | AFP | Getty Images The Federal Reserve’s top banking regulator expressed caution Tuesday

A food shopper searches for vegetables July 1, 2023 at the Hannaford supermarket in South Burlington, Vermont.  Robert Nickelsberg | Getty Images Don’t break out the party hats just yet: Despite recent signs that inflation is cooling, the fight to bring down the meteoric price increases of the past three years is far from over.

A Now Hiring sign is seen inside a WholeFoods store in New York City. Adam Jeffery | CNBC The global economy will likely avoid a recession and central banks will need to “change the goalposts” on inflation, according to veteran strategist David Roche. With high inflation proving sticky across many major economies, central banks have

A customer shops in a Kroger grocery store on July 15, 2022 in Houston, Texas.  Brandon Bell | Getty Images The producer price index for June had a smaller than expected increase, the Labor Department reported Thursday, in the latest sign that inflation is calming in the United States. The PPI for final demand rose

Inflation fell to its lowest annual rate in more than two years during June, the product both of some deceleration in costs and easy comparisons against a time when price increases were running at a more than 40-year high. The consumer price index increased 3% from a year ago, which is the lowest level since

The Covid-19 pandemic, rather than Joe Biden’s economic policies and stimulus packages, is the “real cause” of high inflation, according to a member of the U.S. President’s Council of Economic Advisers. In an interview over the weekend, it was put to Heather Boushey that a key criticism against “Bidenomics” and the huge stimulus it had

U.S. Federal Reserve Board Chairman Jerome Powell speaks during a news conference following a meeting of the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) at the headquarters of the Federal Reserve on June 14, 2023 in Washington, DC. Drew Angerer | Getty Images News | Getty Images Central banks are at “the end of the beginning” in

A Now hiring sign at McDonald”u2019s restaurant in Yorba Linda, CA, on Monday, Sept. 13, 2021 offering pay from $15 an hour for new employees as signs around the region are getting the cold shoulder from workers reluctant to resume service-industry jobs.” Jeff Gritchen | Medianews Group | Getty Images The U.S. labor market showed

Filadendron | E+ | Getty Images The overall U.S. unemployment rate declined in June, but a negative trend among Black workers may be emerging, according to the latest nonfarm payrolls report. Overall, the unemployment rate last month was 3.6%, a 0.1 percentage point decrease from May, the U.S. Department of Labor reported Friday. However, Black

Chicago Federal Reserve President Austan Goolsbee said Friday he’s confident inflation can be tamed without a recession, even with additional interest rate increases likely. Speaking to CNBC following the release of the June nonfarm payrolls report, he said the ongoing job growth is part of the Fed’s “golden path” toward restoring price stability without taking

There were about half a million fewer job openings in May than the previous month, providing at least a modest sign that the ultra-tight labor market could be loosening a bit, the Labor Department reported Thursday. The closely watched Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey showed that listings fell to 9.82 million, down 496,000 from

A man walks past a “now hiring” sign posted outside of a restaurant in Arlington, Virginia on June 3, 2022. Olivier Douliery | AFP | Getty Images The U.S. jobs market is still on fire, no matter how much effort policymakers put into cooling it off. Despite a series of interest rate hikes aimed specifically

Sunak has reiterated his “total support” for the Bank of England and under fire Governor Andrew Bailey. STEFAN ROUSSEAU/POOL/AFP via Getty Images LONDON — In January, with one eye on a critical general election in 2024, U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak vowed to halve inflation by the end of the year. At the time, headline

Inflation pressures eased slightly in May as consumer spending slowed considerably, according to a Commerce Department report released Friday. The personal consumption expenditures price index, a number closely watched by the Federal Reserve, increased 0.3% for the month when excluding food and energy, a number that was in line with the Dow Jones estimate. So-called

Pixelcatchers | E+ | Getty Images It’s not an easy time to be a small business in search of financing. For LGBTQ owners, the struggle has been even harder. LGBTQ-owned businesses reported more rejections than non-LGBTQ businesses that applied for funding, according to a 2022 report from Movement Advancement Project, a nonprofit think tank that

David Leal installs a tailpipe on a vehicle at Muffler Pros on April 12, 2023 in Hollywood, Florida. Joe Raedle | Getty Images The U.S. economy showed much stronger-than-expected growth in the first quarter than previously thought, according to a big upward revision Thursday from the Commerce Department. Gross domestic product increased at a 2%