Britain’s inflation rate unexpectedly rose last month, reversing its recent downward trend and potentially undermining expectations that the Bank of England was close to halting interest rate increases.Consumer prices in […]
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Back to news homeStock Investors Trade Cautiously Ahead of Fed’s Rate Decision
Reeling from a series of bank collapses that prompted intervention from authorities around the world and generated violent swings in financial markets, investors, analysts and economists are sure of nothing […]
Fed Meets as Bank Chaos Collides With Inflation
The Federal Reserve entered 2023 focused on a central goal: wrestling down the rapid inflation that has plagued American consumers since 2021. But over the past two weeks, that job […]
Before Collapse of Silicon Valley Bank, the Fed Spotted Big Problems
WASHINGTON — Silicon Valley Bank’s risky practices were on the Federal Reserve’s radar for more than a year — an awareness that proved insufficient to stop the bank’s demise.The Fed […]
Banking Crisis Hangs Over Economy, Rekindling Recession Fear
The U.S. economic recovery has repeatedly defied predictions of an impending recession, withstanding supply-chain backlogs, labor shortages, global conflicts and the fastest increase in interest rates in decades.That resilience now […]
What Are Markets Saying About the World?
It was a week of market turmoil that began with the collapse of a small bank in the United States, spiraled into a panic about the global financial system and […]
Low Rates Were Meant to Last. Without Them, Finance Is In for a Rough Ride.
WASHINGTON — If a number defined the 2010s, it was 2 percent. Inflation, annual economic growth, and interest rates at their highest all hovered around that level — so persistently […]
How Washington Decided to Rescue Silicon Valley Bank’s Depositors
WASHINGTON — On Friday afternoon, the deputy Treasury secretary, Wally Adeyemo, met with Jamie Dimon, the chief executive of JPMorgan Chase & Company, at Mr. Dimon’s office in New York.The […]
SVB Collapse Upsets Expectations for Federal Reserve’s Rate Decision
The Federal Reserve’s hotly-anticipated March 22 interest rate decision is just a week and a half away, and the drama that swept the banking and financial sector over the weekend […]
Silicon Valley Bank Fails After Run on Deposits
One of the most prominent lenders in the world of technology start-ups, struggling under the weight of ill-fated decisions and panicked customers, collapsed on Friday, forcing the federal government to […]