Economy

By Nicole Goodkind, CNN Economists are growing concerned about the $20 trillion commercial real estate (CRE) industry. After decades of thriving…

By Hanna Ziady, CNN The Bank of England hiked interest rates by a quarter of a percentage point Thursday, extending its long-running fight to rein in…

By Olesya Dmitracova and Hanna Ziady, CNN UK consumer prices jumped by 10.4% in February compared with a year ago, as food inflation hit its highest…

By Alicia Wallace, CNN Last week, the Federal Reserve’s biggest concern was a stubbornly high inflation rate and how much to crank up monetary…

By Nicole Goodkind, CNN Silicon Valley Bank’s collapse last week sent tingles of panic down investors’ spines as it highlighted a larger…

By Anna Cooban and Laura He, CNN Markets in Europe and Asia tumbled Friday following a sharp selloff in banking stocks in the United States as a…

By Alicia Wallace, CNN There’s a slight chill running through the US labor market, but the temperature is still too high for the Federal…

By Anna Cooban, CNN Investors are bucking tradition this year by piling into big bank stocks just as major economies are expected to either slow down…

By Alicia Wallace, CNN Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell was on Capitol Hill Tuesday for the first part of his two-day semiannual monetary…

By Nicole Goodkind, CNN Business Federal Reserve policymakers will need to raise interest rates higher and keep them there longer to tackle the…

By Alicia Wallace, CNN US consumers kept spending last year despite historically high inflation, not only shelling out for necessities but also…

By Julia Horowitz, CNN Inflation in Europe fell again in February, though not as sharply as expected, and national data showed accelerating price…

By Hanna Ziady, CNN UK house prices last month saw their biggest annual decline since November 2012, in the latest sign of the lasting pain that the…

By Paul R. La Monica, CNN So much for that big stock market comeback this year. Sure, it’s only February. But the Dow is now down almost 1%…

By Alicia Wallace, CNN The US economy is confusing: Jobs are surging. Inflation has been cooling but still running relatively hot. Gas prices are on…

By Nicole Goodkind, CNN Analysts have long expected a slowdown in the US labor market, but for the past 10 months, the data has come in better than…

By Anna Bahney, CNN New home sales rose in January from December, as mortgage rates eased off their highs of the past year at the start of 2023.…

By Alicia Wallace, CNN The Federal Reserve’s preferred inflation gauge heated up unexpectedly in January, as did consumer spending, showing the…

By Anna Bahney, CNN Mortgage rates shot up for the third-straight week, as inflation concerns make rates more volatile. The 30-year fixed-rate…

By Anna Bahney, CNN US home sales declined in January for the 12th consecutive month as mortgage rates remained elevated and stubbornly high prices…

By Anna Bahney, CNN US home building fell again in January, marking five straight months of declines, even as mortgage rates moderated and inflation…

By Anna Bahney, CNN Home builder confidence jumped this month by the largest amount in almost 10 years, as falling mortgage rates pulled in more…

By Nicole Goodkind, CNN The labor market ballooned in January when the US economy added an astonishing 517,000 jobs, blowing past Wall Street’s…

By Olesya Dmitracova and Rob North, CNN The UK economy flatlined in the last quarter of 2022, meaning that it just managed to avoid falling into a…

By Nicole Goodkind, CNN Wall Street is baffled by this economy. The labor market is thriving. US unemployment is at its lowest level since 1969. GDP…

By Jordan Valinsky, CNN Business Bed Bath & Beyond has revealed the locations of the 149 stores it’s closing. The new list of closures…

By Nicole Goodkind, CNN Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell threw markets into a tizzy on Tuesday as he spoke about the economy alongside his…

By Nicole Goodkind, CNN Business Investors who believe the bear market is over are “ignorant,” Lisa Shalett, chief investment officer of…