President Donald Trump will tap his top economic advisor Kevin Hassett to be the next Fed chair, according to respondents to ...

U.S. crude oil refinery inputs averaged 17.2 million barrels per day during the week ending August 15, 2025, which was 28 ...

The director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency is urging Attorney General Pam Bondi to investigate Federal Reserve ...

I am glad that I looked at things in an optimistic light yesterday because the news from the UK this morning heads towards the other end of the spectrum. The Consumer Prices Index (CPI) rose by 3.8% ...

New Zealand’s central bank (RBNZ) cut its Official Cash Rate (OCR) as expected by 25 basis points (bps) to a three-year low of 3% today. The major surprise was the RBNZ’s monetary policy guidance that ...

We're writing this note two days ahead of the Jackson Hole Symposium, which we generally see as a neutral/dovish event risk ...

Leaving aside the New Zealand dollar, which has been tagged for more than 1% after the dovish forward guidance following the central bank's well-telegraphed rate cut, and the Australian dollar, which ...

ECB's President Lagarde: Trade deals haven't eliminated uncertainty. Markets opened Wednesday with a sharp focus on the New ...

In September 2024’s release, UK House Price Index (UK HPI) estimates were revised from January 2022 onwards by making use of price data processed outside the UK HPI’s normal 12-month revision period.

The euro area annual inflation rate was 2.0% in July 2025, stable compared to June. A year earlier, the rate was 2.6%.

UK inflation was undoubtedly hot in July, but as ever, the devil lies in the detail. Services inflation – the bit usually ...

If the Fed loses its independence then U.S. bond investors should don protective helmets. Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) S&P Global reaffirmed its AA+ sovereign credit rating for the U.S. in ...