European stocks held near 15-month highs and the dollar strengthened against other top global currencies on Thursday on growing expectations that the U. S. central bank will raise interest rates...
Asian shares rose on Thursday as investors were encouraged by President Donald Trump's measured tone in his first speech to Congress, which sent Wall Street stocks sharply higher, while growing bets...
Businesses in some parts of the country, while generally upbeat, are concerned about the uncertainty surrounding the impending policies of US President Donald Trump, the Federal Reserve said...
A closely watched measure of US inflation in January hit its fastest monthly pace in nearly four years, the Commerce Department reported Wednesday. The data also showed that the Personal Consumption...
Federal Reserve officials have said they may need to raise interest rates "fairly soon" if the economy stays strong, minutes of their meeting show. The first meeting of the Fed since Donald Trump...
Federal Reserve officials said their outlook for the economy and interest rates had not changed much since December 2016, when they indicated three rate hikes were likely in 2017 US central bankers...
The US central bank chief sparred with legislators Wednesday over its responsibility for the weak economic recovery, bank regulations and its participation in international bodies. In often...
Possible changes in fiscal policy by US President Donald Trump are among the factors adding "uncertainty" to the economic outlook, Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen said Tuesday. She cautioned that...
U. S. Federal Reserve Vice Chair Stanley Fischer said there was significant uncertainty about U.S. fiscal policy under the Trump administration, but the Fed would be strict in meeting targets of...
Wall Street's top banks expect just two rate hikes from the Federal Reserve this year and see only modest risk to the U. S. central bank being pressed into a more aggressive pace of monetary policy...
The US Federal Reserve has raised its benchmark interest rate by 0.25%, only the second increase in a decade. The central bank voted unanimously to raise the key rate to a range of 0.5% to 0.75%,...
The start of the week saw the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of the Bank of Ghana announcing a reduction in the policy rate by 50 basis points to 25.5 per cent. Previously, the rate had held at 26...
Some financial analysts are anticipating that the Bank of Ghana (BoG) will sustain the decision to reduce further, its policy rate to ease access to credit to businesses. According to them,...
The Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of the Bank of Ghana (BoG) has reduced the policy rate by 50 basis point to 25.5 percent after holding it at 26 percent for months. The policy rate, which is the...
There is growing expectation on the Bank of Ghana (BoG) to announce a reduction in the policy rate as the governor prepares to publish results of the Monetary Policy Committee meeting later this...
The President of Ghana John Dramani Mahama has hinted of moves to consider capping interest rates in the country. According to the President the high cost of doing business complained about by...
U. S. officials are striving to put finishing touches on a slew of banking rules before President Barack Obama leaves office and hands regulatory power to Donald Trump who has vowed to rewrite the...
Egypt's pound avoided the sharp drop that many had feared on its first day as a freely traded currency, but bankers said that was because years of dollar shortages had starved the market of...
The left is undertaking an amazing back door plan to dramatically increase its influence over the Fed’s interest-rate-setting Open Market Committee. The key activist group, a division of the Center...
Who will conjure the American Dream back for us? Politics is part prestidigitation, part reality. A great magician distracts her audience’s attention while producing the payoff. Abracadabra! Want...
