By Howard Schneider COLUMBIA, South Carolina, Feb 3 (Reuters) - Rising productivity is helping businesses ease cost pressures, aiding the U.S. central bank's inflation fight, but it is difficult to ...

Richmond Fed President Thomas Barkin said the Fed still has “some distance to travel” before both parts of its dual mandate of maximum employment and price stability are in balance.

Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond President Tom Barkin. Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond President Tom Barkin struck a cautiously optimistic tone on the economy Tuesday, saying progress on inflation ...

Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond President Thomas Barkin said on Thursday that tariffs are very likely to push inflation up over coming months, in remarks that said U.S. central bank policy is where ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Richmond Federal Reserve President Thomas Barkin said Friday he sees limited risks of a big rise in either unemployment or inflation, letting the Fed balance its two goals as it ...

LEXINGTON, Virginia, March 27 (Reuters) - The Federal Reserve's current "moderately restrictive" monetary policy is right for an environment with an abnormal amount of uncertainty and fast changes ...

Good morning. President Trump announced on Wednesday a 90-day pause on the “reciprocal” tariffs announced last week. During the time-out, a 10% universal tariff will be in effect. However, tariffs on ...

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Richmond Federal Reserve President Tom Barkin downplayed Wednesday's weak ADP jobs report and said he would instead focus on the unemployment rate in the June job report, due out Thursday morning, to ...