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The numbers: Commercial and industrial loans — a key economic driver — rebounded by a seasonally adjusted $6.9 billion to $2.76 trillion in the week ending…

By Gertrude Chavez-Dreyfuss and Samuel Indyk NEW YORK/LONDON (Reuters) – The dollar was little changed on Friday, consolidating gains amassed during the week on better-than-expected U.S.…

By Caroline Valetkevitch NEW YORK (Reuters) – The registered an eighth straight week of gains on Friday while global stock indexes ended slightly higher on the…

New York Fed President John Williams on Thursday sounded content with the current level of interest rates, but said he will be watching data closely to…

(Reuters) – Large swaths of the U.S. government could temporarily close on Oct. 1 if Congress does not approve spending bills due to a dispute between…

Chicago Fed President Austan Goolsbee on Thursday suggested the Fed is almost done raising interest rates. “We are very rapidly approaching the time when our argument…

By Sinéad Carew, Shristi Achar A and Amruta Khandekar (Reuters) – The closed slightly higher on Friday but well below its session high and all three…

Wholesale inventories in the U.S. fell 0.2% in July, the Commerce Department said Friday. It is the second straight monthly decline. Economists polled by the Wall Street…

By Leika Kihara TOKYO (Reuters) -Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda said the central bank could end its negative interest rate policy when achievement of its…

The U.S. economy could expand at about a 2.2% annual rate in the current quarter, according to a revamped real-time estimate from the New York Federal…