Economy Week Ahead: Inflation, Jobless Claims, Retail Sales
Shipping containers at Tianjin Port in China last month. Photo: Gilles Sabrie/Bloomberg News By WSJ staff Oct. 10, 2021 3:00...
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Powell Says Fed Could Start Scaling Back Stimulus This Year
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell reaffirmed the central bank’s emerging plan to begin reversing its easy-money policies later this year...
White House More Than Doubles Its Inflation Forecast in New Update
WASHINGTON—The White House more than doubled its forecast for annual inflation in new projections released Friday, as supply-chain disruptions stemming...
Economy Week Ahead: Housing, Inflation and the Fed
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell’s remarks at the central bank’s Jackson Hole economic symposium on Friday cap off a full...
Inflation Stayed High in July as Economy Rebounded
Inflation remained elevated in July as the economic recovery continued, but prices showed evidence of cooling amid pandemic-related supply problems...
Fed’s Brainard Says Labor Market Hasn’t Satisfied Goals for Reducing Bond Purchases
The U.S. labor market hasn’t achieved enough progress to justify a pullback in the Federal Reserve’s stimulus program but is...
How China Is Helping to Damp Global Inflation
HONG KONG—As China’s factory-gate prices soared this year, investors worried the country would become a new source of inflation for...
Fed’s Powell Concedes Anxiety About Higher Inflation but Resists Policy Shift
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell said recent inflation was uncomfortably above the levels the central bank seeks, concluding two days...
Powell Says Fed Still Expects Inflation to Ease
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell said the central bank wouldn’t hesitate to raise interest rates to keep inflation under control...
Inflation Accelerates Again in June as Economic Recovery Continues
U.S. consumer prices continued to climb swiftly in June, as the economic recovery gained steam and demand outpaced the supply...
Governments World-Wide Gorge on Record Debt, Testing New Limits
The pandemic has pushed global government debt to the highest level since World War II, surpassing the world’s annual economic...
Economy Week Ahead: U.S. Consumers, Fed Testimony, China GDP
Inflation is the focus this week with a U.S. report on consumer prices and Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell’s testimony...
China Inflation Cools but Beijing Worries Economy Is Losing Heat
HONG KONG—After a yearlong run-up that pushed producer inflation to the highest level in more than a decade, China’s factory-gate...
