September’s jobs report is missing in action because of the federal shutdown, but economists are finding other ways of measuring apparent job losses concentrated in Midwestern states and oil country.

Rate cuts by the Fed can gradually lower borrowing costs for things like mortgages, auto loans, and business loans.

Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago President Austan Goolsbee says he's "a little uneasy" with big interest rate cuts at the moment, ahead of his vote during the Fed's next meeting at the end of the month ...

Stock index futures inched higher on Friday, a day after Wall Street paused its rally as concerns rose about the length of the U.S. government shutdown.

Former President Richard Nixon imposed wage and price controls in 1971 to stabilize a slowing economy. The move helped him ...

To recap, the Nasdaq Composite COMP having already rallied that year, pretty much doubled from early October 1999 to the dotcom bubble peak in March 2000.

The government shutdown continues. Here’s what to watch for Friday: Economic data: Preliminary consumer-sentiment data for October from the University of Michigan, due at 10 a.m. ET. Economists expect ...

The Federal Reserve, in the middle of a highly anticipated series of interest rate cuts, is without its usual roadmap because ...

Most members of the Fed's interest-rate setting committee supported further reductions to its key interest rate this year, ...

The Federal Reserve stepped in last month to safeguard America’s labor market, cutting rates by a quarter point to shore up a ...

Most members of the Federal Reserve's interest-rate setting committee supported further reductions to its key interest rate this year, according to minutes from last month's meeting released Wednesday ...