Economic Trends: Janet Yellen and the Case of the Missing Inflation

Economic Trends By NEIL IRWIN June 14, 2017 Inflation has stubbornly stayed lower than the Federal Reserve has desired for the past eight years, and it has been falling in the last few months. In a move that could well define her chairmanship of the central...

Fallout from the Fed and a hefty calendar of data could drive Thursday’s markets

Markets could give extra weight to Thursday’s economic data, after the Fed said it would proceed with interest rate hikes despite softish inflation data. Stocks floundered after the Fed raised interest rates by a quarter point as expected Wednesday, though the...