The first Black woman to serve on the Federal Reserve board, Ms. Cook has long been a pathbreaker in a field dominated by ...

On Wall Street, stocks of smaller companies led the way. They can benefit more from lower interest rates because of their ...

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell on Friday opened the door ever so slightly to lowering a key interest rate in the coming ...

The Fed chair’s measured approach leans toward cautious easing amid a “curious” labor market, despite inflation perils.

If we are to take the official unemployment rate as the final word on the employment situation, then we’re likely to conclude ...

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell's speech at the annual Jackson Hole Economic Policy Symposium went better than expected.

Now that Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell has signaled that the central bank could soon cut its key interest rate, he ...

The Dow Jones Industrial Average clinched a record high Friday for the first time this year hours after Federal Reserve Chair ...

MSNBC’s Ali Velshi and economist Heather Long break down Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell’s speech indicating conditions ...

Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) stock is leaping higher in Friday's trading thanks to a pair of bullish catalysts. The semiconductor ...