WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Monetary policy faces "significant limitations" as a tool to counter financial stability risks, Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen said on Wednesday, adding that heading off the ...

According to today’s conventional wisdom, the bubble will only burst when the Federal Reserve starts to tighten monetary policy. Anyone doubting that we have an artificial intelligence-induced stock ...

In early 2006, on the eve of Ben Bernanke replacing Alan Greenspan as Federal Reserve chairman, The Economist ran a cover showing Greenspan and Bernanke running in a relay race. However, instead of ...

The Nature Index 2026 Research Leaders reveal the leading institutions and countries/territories in the natural sciences, health sciences, applied sciences and social sciences, according to their ...

Central banks in late 2021 kicked off the steepest and most coordinated series of interest rate hikes in four decades to contain the postpandemic inflation outbreak (see Chart 1). Many economists ...

The International Monetary Fund and Bank of England have both issued warnings about soaring stock market valuations. As industry spending surges, top financial institutions say a sharp correction ...