Rates and Bonds  

While good for savers, higher interest rates could drag on consumer spending in the year ahead.

Europe's suddenly slowing economy, triggered by trade disputes and limp domestic demand, could complicated the European Central Bank's plans to tighten monetary policy later this year, according to a former German central banker now chairing Switzerland's biggest bank.

Are you ready for more rate hikes?

The DSCR measures how well a company can service its debt with its current revenue. Here's how to calculate it.

The federal government is still partially shut down. There is a debt ceiling out there with our name on it, and a looming expiration date on its suspension.

U.S. bank stocks, hammered last year amid a slowing economy, feeble trading profits and stiff competition for deposits, could fall another 20% if a recession happens, Goldman Sachs analysts estimated.

A government report shows that the economy added 312,000 jobs in December, well above economists' average projection of 180,000.

5 key things investors need to know about their portfolios and how to proceed after the Fed's disappointing announcement.

The Federal Reserve is widely expected to boost the benchmark for short-term borrowing costs at a meeting that concludes Wednesday. Fed officials may also signal that they might pause or halt the rate-hiking campaign early next year.

President Donald Trump's $1.5 trillion of tax cuts, designed to stimulate growth, have decimated government revenue, ballooning the federal budget deficit and forcing Treasury Department officials to cover the gap by borrowing money in ever-growing amounts. Investors face losses in 2019 as yields on Treasury bonds necessarily rise -- to attract enough buyers for the debt.