Economy

When Federal Reserve officials meet eight times a year to set interest rate policy, their job, assigned by Congress, is to figure out what is best for the United States economy. Their job isn’t to […]

An indicator of what’s ahead in the third quarter came at the same time Thursday, with U.S. durable goods orders in August jumping 4.5 percent against expectations of just 2 percent. Durables rose 8.6 percent […]

Daniel Acker | Bloomberg | Getty Images A shopper at a Walmart in East Peoria, Illinois. Consumer sentiment was just under expectations in the final reading of September but the index remained near all-time high […]