For 20-plus years now, U.S. officials have been prodding Japan to engineer a stronger yen. It never occurred to Tokyo, though, that Washington might be willing to crash the dollar to do it.

President Donald Trump repeated his attacks Monday against the chair of the Federal Reserve, demanding that the central bank lower its key interest rate to boost the economy. Trump called Powell “a ...

President Trump said Tuesday he has "no intention of firing" Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell, one day after the president called Powell a "major loser" and publicly lobbied the central bank ...

Yesterday’s edition of this newsletter cautioned that U.S. President Donald Trump’s desire to intervene in the Federal ...

US markets slumped on Monday (April 21) amid renewed political pressure on the Federal Reserve and a lack of progress in ...

When Japanese Finance Minister Katsunobu Kato meets his U.S. counterpart Scott Bessent in Washington this week, the yen is ...

A top Federal Reserve official defended the independence of the central bank on April 20, responding to President Donald Trump’s steady drumbeat of political pressure on the agency. An ...

The US dollar continues to see a bit of pressure on Thursday morning, as the markets continue to trade based on the idea of a ...

[WASHINGTON] Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago president Austan Goolsbee warned against efforts to curtail the US central bank’s independence, days after President Donald Trump expressed his displeasure ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump repeated his attacks Monday against the chair of the Federal Reserve, demanding that the central bank lower its key interest rate to boost the economy.

Shares finish flat; major banks, gold stocks surge; Macquarie’s Nomura tie-up; $A tops US64¢; Wall Street sinks on Trump’s ...