Thursday on the NewsHour, what the Fed’s decision on interest rates means for the economy. Also: highlights from the second Republican debate, General Motors reaches a settlement over faulty ignition switches, making sense of Pope Francis’ capitalism critique, an American-trained…
What the economy needs is not an end to the Federal Reserve’s interest rate policy, but rather an end to the Federal Reserve itself.
How can an interest rate set by the Federal Reserve affect you?…
Though unemployment fell to its best place since early 2008, the number of jobs created in August was quite modest, falling below expectations. Combined with the volatility of the market and worries over sluggish wage growth, how will the Federal…
Will the Federal Reserve raise interest rates next month? It's a much debated question amid some good U.S. economic news, as well as the Chinese market turmoil. As the Fed meets for its annual retreat, Judy Woodruff takes a closer…
In Wednesday’s news wrap, President Obama and top Republicans are attempting to resurrect a trade bill many had thought was dead. Also, the Fed indicates that it may raise interest rates later this year, and AT&T is slapped with a…
WASHINGTON — Finance officials from the world's major economies are searching for the right mix of policies to bolster a still-weak global recovery nearly six years after the Great Recession while confronting a range of new threats from a soaring…
In our news wrap Wednesday, the Federal Reserve said it was open to raising interest rates, but the job market must improve and inflation has to move closer to 2 percent for a rate hike. Also, gunmen attacked Tunisia’s National…
At its March policy meeting, the Federal Open Market Committee refused to lay out a time table for raising interest rates, with Janet Yellen saying that a June rate hike is possible but not definitive. The Fed's economic forecasts, however,…
For months, the thorn in the side of otherwise sunny jobs reports has been sluggish wage growth. As unemployment falls, wages are supposed to rise. Those expectations will likely play a role in the Fed's policy deliberations this week. But…
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