Sen. Elizabeth Warren sent letters Thursday to agencies including S&P Global Ratings, Moody's Ratings and Fitch Ratings, asking for information about how they score the riskiness of private-credit ...

Clouds of uncertainty still hang over the dollar though, which has been shaken in recent days and weeks by fiscal worries ...

Former president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland Loretta Mester says it's important that the Fed stays independent and that fiscal politics should not interfere with monetary policy makers ...

The U.S. dollar shuffled between gains and losses amid mixed signals. On the one hand, stronger-than-expected U.S. economic data released overnight could dent rate-cut expectations, thereby supporting ...

The issue is not just with President Donald Trump’s ever-escalating threats to fire Fed chair Jerome Powell; Yarvin also wants Trump to smash the Fed’s independence by putting it under the sway of the ...

Mr Powell maintains that Mr Trump has no authority to fire him – “not permitted under the law”, he said in November – and ...

Politicians around the world have a habit of running big budget deficits to spend money on voters today by borrowing money ...

NEW YORK] Federal Reserve governor Christopher Waller said on Thursday (Jul 17) he continues to believe the US central bank ...

The president may try to terminate the Fed chair’s tenure early. But whether Trump has the ability to do so isn’t clear.

Federal Reserve governor Christopher Waller made his strongest call yet for a rate cut in July as he again argued that any ...

Tensions between governments and central banks are common. Governments often prefer low interest rates for economic growth.