Christopher Rugaber

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  • Gas prices on display at a petrol station in La Puente.Finance

    Gas prices fuel jump in U.S. inflation

    By Christopher Rugaber and The Associated Press
  • (AP Illustration/Peter Hamlin)Finance

    Fed’s Raphael Bostic says interest rates will stay higher for longer than people think

    By Christopher Rugaber and The Associated Press
  • Christine Lagarde, Kazuo Ueda, Jerome PowellFinance

    One of the Fed’s favorite inflation metrics has barely budged for 3 straight months now

    By Christopher Rugaber and The Associated Press
  • File – A worker shovels hot asphalt during a parking lot resurfacing job in Richardson, Texas, on June 20, 2023. The U.S. job market has remained resilient, but Americans are facing higher prices and more expensive credit with the Federal Reserve hiking benchmark interest rates to combat inflation. (AP Photo/LM Otero, File)Finance

    Job openings have plummeted back to 2021 levels and Wall Street is loving it: ‘The Fed’s job is already done’

    By Christopher Rugaber, The Associated Press, and others
  • File – Apple CEO Tim Cook speaks at the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company facility under construction in Phoenix, on Dec. 6, 2022. Multinational corporations are seeking to produce more items – especially semiconductors – in the United States. Apple will use chips made at the facility. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, File)Finance

    Inflation could get even harder to manage thanks to trade barriers, aging populations, and the green transition

    By Christopher Rugaber and The Associated Press
  • Christine Lagarde

    Christine Lagarde vows to keep EU interest rates high ‘as long as necessary’ to slay the beast of inflation

    By Christopher Rugaber and The Associated Press
  • Jerome PowellFinance

    Jerome Powell is still on pins and needles about an economy that ‘may not be cooling as expected’

    By Christopher Rugaber and The Associated Press
  • Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell participates in a meeting of the Financial Stability Oversight CouncilFinance

    The U.S. economy has powered ahead despite Fed hikes. So will Jerome Powell be forced to keep interest rates higher for longer to tame inflation?

    By Christopher Rugaber and The Associated Press
  • U.S. Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell attends a press conference in Washington, D.C., the United States, on July 26, 2023. The U.S. Federal Reserve on Wednesday raised its benchmark interest rates by 25 basis points to the range of 5.25-5.5 percent, the highest level in over two decades, as it continues to ramp up its fight against inflation. (Photo by Aaron Schwartz/Xinhua via Getty Images)Finance

    Fed says more interest rates hikes may be needed to tame inflation, despite ‘tentative signs’ the threat is abating

    By Christopher Rugaber and The Associated Press
  • FILE – The U.S. Capitol Building looms behind flags on the National Mall in Washington Nov. 7, 2022. Fitch Ratings has downgraded the United States government’s credit rating, citing rising debt at the federal, state, and local levels and a “steady deterioration in standards of governance” over the past two decades.(AP Photo/J. David Ake, File)Finance

    Everything you need to know about Fitch’s downgrade of U.S. debt

    By Christopher Rugaber and The Associated Press
  • QAnon ShamanFinance

    One of the reasons Fitch slashed America’s credit rating was the Jan. 6 insurrection over 2 years ago, source says

    By Christopher Rugaber and The Associated Press
  • Jerome PowellFinance

    U.S. job openings drop to lowest point in over 2 years—but still a massive 9.6 million

    By Christopher Rugaber and The Associated Press
  • Jerome PowellFinance

    Federal Reserve raises key interest rate to highest level since 2001

    By Christopher Rugaber and The Associated Press
  • Jerome PowellFinance

    Is the Fed really about to raise rates to the highest level since 2001? Here’s why Jerome Powell is almost definitely prepping another hike

    By Christopher Rugaber and The Associated Press
  • Jerome PowellFinance

    Jerome Powell is gathering the Fed this week with the elusive ‘soft landing’ in sight—here’s how close the economy is to dodging recession

    By Christopher Rugaber and The Associated Press