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  • Jerome PowellFinance

    The Fed raises interest rates by one quarter of a percentage point and says there’s more to come

    By The Associated Press and Christopher Rugaber
  • FILE – Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell speaks during a news conference Wednesday, Dec. 14, 2022, at the Federal Reserve Board Building, in Washington, as an aides hand reflects under the podium. On Wednesday, the Federal Reserve closes its two-day meeting where economists expect the central bank to raise its benchmark rate by a quarter of a point as its battle against four-decade high inflation extends into 2023.(AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)Finance

    Fed chair Powell expected to caution investors hoping for interest rate easing that bank’s inflation fight is far from over

    By Christopher Rugaber and The Associated Press
  • Worker at deskFinance

    Your raise is shrinking

    By Christopher Rugaber and The Associated Press
  • A new Jeep is delivered to a dealership in Pittsburgh on Monday, Jan. 23, 2023.Finance

    Americans are spending less and it’s cooling down the economy just as the Fed intended

    By Christopher Rugaber and The Associated Press
  • Lael BrainardFinance

    The Fed’s vice chair says there may be ‘some reassurance that we are not currently experiencing a 1970s-style wage–price spiral’

    By Christopher Rugaber and The Associated Press
  • Fed policymaker Loretta Mester.Finance

    One of the Fed’s most consistent hawks thinks that interest rate hikes are working in the battle against inflation

    By Christopher Rugaber and The Associated Press
  • Gas pricesFinance

    Inflation has now been slowing for 6 straight months—and just saw its first actual decline since May 2020

    By Christopher Rugaber and The Associated Press
  • Jerome PowellFinance

    America is starting to feel pretty, pretty good about avoiding the whole recession thing

    By Christopher Rugaber and The Associated Press
  • David Malpass

    ‘This is going to be a tough year’: The World Bank says we’re ‘perilously close’ to a global recession

    By Christopher Rugaber and The Associated Press
  • Now hiring posterFinance

    American companies just keep hiring, adding another 233,000 jobs in December as unemployment falls to 3.5%

    By Christopher Rugaber and The Associated Press
  • GrinchesPersonal Finance

    Americans feel the Grinch pinch as retail sales fall heading into prime holiday shopping season

    By Christopher Rugaber, Anne D'Innocenzio, and others
  • FILE – A shopper leaves a Walmart after attending a Black Friday sale Friday, Nov. 25, 2022, in Shawnee, Kan. The Federal Reserve is set to raise its benchmark short-term rate on Wednesday, Dec. 14, for a seventh time this year, though by a smaller amount than it has recently. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File)Finance

    Fed is expected to end massive interest rate hikes with half-point increase Wednesday

    By Christopher Rugaber and The Associated Press
  • People pushing grocery carts in a parking lot.Finance

    A cooler-than-expected CPI report shows that inflation keeps slowing down

    By The Associated Press and Christopher Rugaber
  • A BMW factory worker inspects equipmentFinance

    The labor force is smaller than you think and that’s making the Fed very nervous

    By Christopher Rugaber and The Associated Press
  • Wholesale food goodsFinance

    Prices for wholesale goods slowed for the fifth straight month in November, another key sign inflation has peaked

    By Christopher Rugaber and The Associated Press