Things continue to look dicey for the U.S. economy and stock market.

The forecast is a sharp step up from the prior projection of 2.8%. Moreover, it is much higher than the 2.7% Fed officials estimated.

The Federal Reserve just raised its 2026 inflation outlook by the largest margin in recent memory. Here's what changed, why ...

The central bank's projection may be devastating to a historically expensive stock market.

For the rest of 2026, models from forecasting companies like Trading Economics anticipate an inflation rate of about 3.5% ...

The central bank's projection is a potential worst-case scenario for Wall Street.

For much of the last seven years, Wall Street's major stock indexes have been powering higher. With the exception of 2022, the benchmark S&P 500 (SNPINDEX: ^GSPC) has gained at least 16% each year ...

The Federal Reserve was widely expected to begin cutting interest rates in 2026, offering some long-awaited relief to borrowers after years of elevated costs. But one inflation forecast is now moving ...

There’s a reason lawmakers voted years ago to make Social Security’s cost-of-living adjustments, or COLAs, automatic. Without ...

Qatar National Bank (QNB) projects global headline inflation to rise to 4.4% amid an energy shock triggered by escalating military tensions in the Middle Ea ...