Economy

By Pedro da Costa and Alister Bull WASHINGTON, May 22 (Reuters) - The Federal Reserve's monetary stimulus is helping the U.S. economy recover but the central bank needs to see further signs of traction before taking its foot off the gas, Fed Chairman Ben...

FRANKFURT (Reuters) - A top Federal Reserve official urged the European Central Bank on Tuesday to consider employing a U.S.-style quantitative easing program to counter slowing inflation and recession in the euro zone. The ECB has engaged in bond...

(James Saft is a Reuters columnist. The opinions expressed are his own) By James Saft May 21 (Reuters) - Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke is an optimist about economic growth in the coming decades, rejecting "depressing" views about a slowdown to...

(Updates with more market reaction) * New York Fed's Dudley says bond buying could increase or decrease * St. Louis Fed's Bullard says inflation too low to taper bond buying By Jonathan Spicer and Paul Carrel NEW YORK/FRANKFURT, May 21 (Reuters) - Two...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's exports rose less than expected in April from a year earlier due to weak demand from Europe and China, highlighting the challenges confronting the world's third-biggest economy as policymakers try to engineer a sustained revival....

WARSAW (Reuters) - Poland has turned its back on policies that once made it Europe's growth leader and is flirting with the recession that it alone among its emerging European Union peers has evaded through years of crisis. It weathered the global...

TOKYO (Reuters) - The Japanese government upgraded its assessment of the economy on Monday, as emerging signs of an upturn in exports and factory output added to growing evidence that Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's aggressive polices are beginning to...

SYDNEY, May 14 (Reuters) - Australia's minority government released its 2013/14 budget bill on Tuesday, which showed a widely-flagged deficit in the new fiscal year. *************************************************************** KEY POINTS: 2013/14...

An economic forum for Lehigh County executive candidates Monday cast Republican Dean Browning and Democrat Tom Muller as two of a kind, and Republican Scott Ott as taking a different path. The forum, hosted by the Lehigh Valley Economic Development Corp....

SOUTH BEND -- For the fourth year in a row, the St. Joseph High School Fed Challenge Team used its expertise and won the regional competition at the Chicago Federal Reserve Bank last month. The winning team — Nick Wawrykow, Graham Murphy, Robert...

(Anatole Kaletsky is a Reuters columnist but his opinions are his own.) By Anatole Kaletsky May 17 (Reuters) - The 3.5 percent gross domestic product growth announced by Tokyo on Wednesday suggests that Japan may be the fastest-growing economy in the...

By Ann Saphir PORTLAND, Ore, May 16 (Reuters) - The U.S. Federal Reserve could begin easing up on the monetary gas pedal this summer and end its bond buys late this year, a top Fed official said Thursday, citing "good news" on the outlook for jobs....