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(Reuters) -Wall Street stocks and the dollar fell on Wednesday, while U.S. Treasury yields eased, amid fresh tension in the Middle East, a lack of detail in a U.S.-China trade deal, and U.S ...
Economists at Goldman Sachs say the Trump administration’s tariff policy will lift prices but not trigger an inflation surge.
The Federal Reserve's current "moderately restrictive" monetary policy is right for an environment with an abnormal amount of uncertainty and fast changes taking place in U.S. government policy ...
Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco President Mary Daly said policy needs to remain restrictive until there’s more progress on inflation, which she expects will continue declining over time.
Critically, the demand-driven contribution isolates the component of inflation that is theoretically more sensitive to monetary policy tightening. Therefore, assessing the supply and demand components ...
Annualized inflation increased to 2.7% in November from 2.6% the previous month, providing further evidence that the economy remains strong despite restrictive monetary policy.
The U.S. experience in the 1980s demonstrated that contractionary monetary policy, represented by raising interest rates to reduce aggregate demand, can effectively curb inflation.
The Federal Reserve uses contractionary monetary policy to slow down the economy and prevent inflation. This can keep inflation from eating into buying power, but it also pushes up the ...
When demand for goods or services rises faster than the supply of those goods and services, the result is demand-pull inflation.
For inflation to climb, the demand curve must shift upwards, due to demand shocks or temporary deviations from the central bank's previous conduct of monetary policy," they say.
The Bank of Japan would consider a policy response if the yen’s weakness causes inflation to rise sharply higher, Gov. Kazuo Ueda said.