Data: Bureau of Transportation Statistics, St. Louis Federal Reserve; Chart: Axios Visuals Traffic fatalities continue to increase and distracted driving is one of the main reasons, according to the ...

Behind the gradual and relatively small rise in the U.S. unemployment rate in recent years are a couple of less-closely followed labor market indicators that are flashing yellow for recession risk, ...

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Wall Street’s bulls and bears experienced one of the more turbulent weeks for the U.S. stock market for quite some time. However, by the end of the week, the S&P 500 ( SPX) closed at 5,371.96, up ...

Officials at the Federal Reserve said this week that the U.S. economy is in for higher inflation and slower growth as ...

A new survey from the University of Michigan shows consumers souring sharply on the economic outlook as the trade war heats ...

St. Louis Federal Reserve President Alberto Musalem said on Friday he's closely watching whether a rise in short-term ...

-- Unemployment of 4.5% to 5%, up from 4.2% in March.

The consumer price index fell in March, but President Donald Trump’s tariff agenda and the specter of a global trade war threaten to reverse progress.

The Fed responded in kind over 2022-23 by delivering the largest rate hike since 1980, increasing the federal-funds rate by 5 percentage points. From July 2023 to September 2024, the Fed held the ...

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The inflation surge in 2022 is a good example of this policy in action; the CPI hit a 40-year high of 8% that year, prompting an aggressive federal funds rate hike. The Fed started reversing that ...