JEANNA SMIALEK

The Employment Cost Index, which Federal Reserve officials watch closely as a gauge of pay trends, has come down since last year.

Central bankers are expected to leave interest rates steady at a 22-year high of 5.25 to 5.5 percent. Investors are looking for hints at what’s...

Overall inflation stayed at 3.4 percent in September, down from a peak of around 7 percent.

Economists first underestimated inflation, then underestimated consumers and the labor market. The key question is why.

The Federal Reserve may need to do more if growth remains hot or if the labor market stops cooling, Jerome H. Powell said in a...

Prices are rising at a pace that is much less rapid than in 2022, but signs of stalling progress are likely to keep Federal Reserve...

Minutes from their last meeting showed that Fed officials saw risks of doing too much — or too little — to tame inflation.

Her research uncovered the reasons for differences in labor force participation and earnings for women. She is the third woman to win the economics Nobel.

Federal Reserve officials are happy when the labor market looks strong, but they are trying to cool the economy down to fully wrangle inflation.

The Personal Consumption Expenditures Index climbed more slowly, after cutting out food and fuel prices for a sense of the underlying trend.