Jan 28, 2023 Fed Set to Shrink Rate Hikes Again as Inflation Slows Kate Davidson and Craig Stirling, Bloomberg News Jerome Powell, chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve, speaks during a news conference following a Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting in Washington, D.C., US, on Wednesday, July 27, 2022. Powell said while some commodity […]
By Jeff Cox via CNBC Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell emphasized his resolve to get inflation down, saying Tuesday he will back interest rate increases until prices start falling back toward a healthy level. “If that involves moving past broadly understood levels of neutral we won’t hesitate to do that,” the central bank leader told The Wall […]
Via The New York Times U.S. added 428,000 jobs in April as the labor market remained vibrant. April produced another solid month of job growth, the Labor Department reported Friday, reflecting the economy’s resilient rebound from the pandemic’s devastation. U.S. employers added 428,000 jobs, the department said, the same as the revised figure for March. […]
By Jon Worth and Nicole Funari via Nareit The Bureau of Labor Statistics’ March Job Openings and Labor Turnover (JOLTs) report highlights the health of the labor market. March marked 23 straight months with hires greater than separations and the March JOLTs report showed private job openings are in excess of 10.5 million, the […]
