Nick Timiraos

Forthcoming changes to the Federal Reserve's rate-setting framework are unlikely to influence officials' current decisions. But the expected changes acknowledge that the ‘lower-for-longer' interest-rate era may be over.

| Updated framework for policy will accept that very low rates are no sure thing - By Nick Timiraos

Treasury yields are rising because financial-market participants are concerned that there won’t be any meaningful near-term effort to reduce budget deficits, Federal Reserve governor Christopher Waller said Thursday. Waller was interviewed on the Fox Business Network shortly after the Republican-le

An economy facing possible indigestion from big increases in tariffs now is contending with a second headwind: potential fallout from a rise in

John Rogers voiced admiration for China before U.S. prosecutors accused him of sending secrets to Beijing.

John Rogers voiced admiration for China before U.S. prosecutors accused him of sending secrets to Beijing.

When it comes to judging the impact of tariffs on inflation, standard economic models are straightforward: this should be a one-time increase in prices. But the uncertain and fluid rollout of the Trump administration’s tariffs is making the situation more complex and less clear-cut than textbooks m

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Companies say they are freezing hiring and investment to deal with shifting tariff policies, which is compounding an uneasy equilibrium in the labor market.

Central-bank officials, who meet this week, are in a holding pattern as they wait to see what worsens first: inflation or the labor market.