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The Federal Reserve’s favored inflation gauge accelerated slightly in August from a year earlier. The...

Alan Greenspan, Ben Bernanke, Janet Yellen and other former top economic officials appointed by...

An uptick in consumer spending helped the U.S. economy expand at a surprising 3.8%...

In a rural corner of Louisiana, Meta is building one of the world’s largest...

The number of Americans applying for jobless benefits retreated significantly last week after surging...

The Federal Reserve cut its key interest rate by a quarter-point Wednesday and projected...

President Donald Trump wants to do away with the quarterly earnings report. In a post...

Inflation rose last month as the price of gas, groceries, hotel rooms and airfares...

Fifty-five heat waves over the past quarter-century would not have happened without human-caused climate...

U.S. producer prices fell unexpectedly last month, dropping 0.1% from July. The Labor Department reported...