As recently as last June, forecasters expected a flat 2025 for stocks. Instead, the S&P gained more than 16%. What's coming in 2026?

The Federal Reserve is widely expected to halt its interest-rate-cutting cycle this week, as a steadier jobs market restores a degree of consensus at the central bank after months of growing division.

Dropping rates more than conditions warrant would stimulate the economy in the short term but could lead to trouble, our ...

President Donald Trump, confronted with European pushback and a mini-meltdown in financial markets, abandoned plans this week to launch a Greenland takeover and suffocate allies who didn’t support him ...

The Federal Reserve’s preferred gauge for inflation in October and November was released belatedly after the government ...

Vanguard’s short-term TIPS ETF offers low-risk exposure to US Treasury Inflation-Indexed Bonds with maturities under 5 years.

The US government released some long-delayed data Thursday that seemed to prove true the cliché about never betting against ...

Lately, it feels like President Donald Trump’s government is using every trick at his disposal to improve housing ...

US companies are on a borrowing binge, and debt markets don’t seem the slightest bit concerned. Companies issued a collective ...

On the one-year anniversary of his inauguration, President Donald Trump declared in a low-energy press conference that ...

Japan is preparing for a snap lower-house election that could reshape the country’s political balance at a moment of economic ...

Recent inflation data is misleading due to outliers; underlying price growth remains close to 3%. Learn more on my 'higher ...