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All eyes will be on the minutes from the March meeting, set to be released Wednesday at 2 p.m. in Washington, for details about the debate over bank failures and how to respond.

Recent deposit flows raise questions about the Fed's support for these funds through its overnight lending facility, and whether that support is doing more harm than good.

A pending Supreme Court ruling on the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's funding structure could create dangerous regulatory uncertainty. Congress should act first.

Price pressures could keep emanating from a tight labor market, the war in Ukraine and the reopening of China after the pandemic, the Fed governor said. 

Ajay Banga is almost certain to become the next president of the World Bank, replacing David Malpass, who announced plans to step down almost a year early.

Misleading data and hypersensitivity left over from the last financial crisis have us scared of shadows. The U.S. consumer is actually in pretty good shape.

In his new book, "A Monetary and Fiscal History of the United States, 1961-2021," economist and former Federal Reserve vice chair Alan Blinder tells the tale of how economic conventional wisdom has evolved over the last half-century.

Early Warning Services' upcoming bank wallet will go live in June with certain merchants, supported by EWS's seven large-banks owners, representing 150 million Visa and Mastercard accounts.

"Florida will not side with economic central planners; we will not adopt policies that threaten personal economic freedom and security," said Gov. Ron DeSantis.

The recent bank failures have changed market thinking about the Federal Reserve's next move.

The Canadian bank now expects loan growth in the mid-single-digit range this year, down from a high-single-digit forecast three months ago. "We're not slowing, but the economy is," one executive said.

Cleveland Fed president says the central bank is still raising rates to a level that's high enough to bring inflation down to the target.

The markets are looking for a Fed pivot, but central bankers continue to say more hikes are coming and rates will stay higher longer. OANDA's Ed Moya joins us after the meeting to give a comprehensive look at what the Fed signals for the future.

The Philadelphia Fed president was slightly more upbeat about the latest inflation data than some of his counterparts.

The central bank has raised rates aggressively for nearly a year, but experts believe the hiking cycle is nearly over.

Markets are beginning to price in a higher federal funds rate target as Federal Reserve officials hint at more restrictive policies to tamp down inflation.

The Federal Reserve Chair urged Congress to raise the debt ceiling, warning the impacts of not doing so could go beyond the central bank's ability to mitigate.

On Tuesdays, this band of seven Republican senators, which includes some of the chamber's leading obstructionists, meets to plot ways to extract austere spending concessions from Democrats in exchange for their help in averting a catastrophic U.S. payments default.

Ultraconservatives in the House have dominated the public discussion on the U.S. debt ceiling, but Speaker Kevin McCarthy can't afford to ignore GOP centrists if the country is to avoid a catastrophic payments default later this year.

After months of forecasting and bracing for a recession in 2023, the economy seems increasingly durable. But it depends on what you're looking for.