Christine Cooper

Consumer sentiment soured in March as higher gas prices and heightened uncertainty took hold.

With the Strait of Hormuz effectively shut down for now, disrupting oil supplies and sending crude oil and other product prices soaring, the economy faces a risk of a slowdown in economic growth and ...

Economic data paints an increasingly complex picture.

A softer-than-expected employment report for February confirmed a deteriorating job market. At the same time, the threat of rising oil prices as the military conflict in Iran drags on, combined with ...

The first year of the second Trump administration presented numerous opportunities for economists to predict whether the economy would surge, sputter or sail through.

The federal government shutdown occurred just days before the September jobs report was due to be released, but most of the data collection had already been completed. So when the government reopened ...

Last week’s news that inflation rose less than anticipated cheered market participants who had expected consumer and producer price hikes in reaction to the recent imposition of tariffs on most ...

The economic outlook has substantially changed over the past year. In its most recent release, the forecasting firm Oxford Economics suggests growth of 2.5% in the fourth quarter, a far cry from its ...

The Federal Reserve's policymaking committee ended its eight-meeting pause last week and finally cut its target short-term interest rate, choosing a 50-basis-point cut.

After a dismal spring and early-summer selling season, housing sales increased in July for the first time in five months.

The University of Michigan’s index of consumer sentiment brightened in early August, rising from an eight-month low of 66.4 to 67.8. But the news might not be as positive as the headline would ...

The combination of the Bank of Japan raising its policy interest rate, a weak U.S. jobs report showing higher unemployment and a downturn in a widely followed manufacturing survey spooked investors ...

Financial markets began tumbling last week and continued their fall early this week after the release of the July jobs report.

Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell said policymakers are getting closer to lowering interest rates, possibly as soon as September, if conditions warrant as policymakers wrapped up a two-day ...

The economy grew at a robust rate in the second quarter, defying predictions that growth would slow as the Federal Reserve keeps interest rates in restrictive territory. The surprise showing should ...

Consumer resilience continues to play a large part in buoying the optimism of economists and their forecasts of the economy’s growth path.

With the national political conventions underway or coming in a few weeks, some efforts have been made to understand how the policies promoted or planned by each party might affect the outlook for ...

The June employment report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics confirmed what is widely expected — a slowing labor market after two years of pandemic-related disruption.

The Federal Reserve left its overnight lending rate unchanged yet again at its meeting this week, its seventh consecutive meeting of doing so. The decision maintains the overnight lending target rate ...

Employment growth was surprisingly strong in May, as employers added 272,000 jobs, according to the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics. This was far above consensus expectations of 180,000 in a ...