Personal Finance

NEW DELHI, July 16 — The Employees’ Provident Fund Organisation has credited 8.25 per cent interest for the financial year 2025-26 to…

ISLAMABAD, July 16 — The government has formally ratified the 8.25 per cent interest rate on provident fund deposits for the financial…

ISLAMABAD, July 16 — The Employees’ Provident Fund Organisation has started crediting interest at a rate of 8.25 per cent for the…

LONDON, July 14 — There is a quiet, almost invisible machine at the heart of global finance, and for nearly eighty years…

VALLEY FORGE, Pa., July 14 — John Bogle built his revolution on a single, stubborn idea: that the average investor did not…

BEIJING, July 14 — The 1974 agreement between the United States and Saudi Arabia to price oil exclusively in dollars remains the…

WASHINGTON — The Congressional Budget Office’s long-term budget outlook, released in February 2024, painted a stark picture of the nation’s fiscal trajectory.…

WASHINGTON, July 11 — For sixteen months, the Federal Reserve steadily tightened the screws on the American economy. Starting from near zero…

WASHINGTON, July 11 — The U.S. Treasury borrowed $776 billion in the first quarter of fiscal year 2024, a figure that underscores…

FRANKFURT, July 10 — Christine Lagarde, President of the European Central Bank, has spent the past years steering the institution through a…

LONDON, July 10 — The story of money is, at its heart, a story about trust. For those involved in the long…

NEW YORK, July 10 — The technical reality of crushing double-digit inflation is that the usual tools often fail. Paul Volcker, who…

WASHINGTON, July 8 — Jerome Powell’s tenure as chair of the Federal Reserve enters its final months, and the strategic calculus surrounding…

WASHINGTON, July 8 — On the streets of the capital this afternoon, the gold standard is a ghost that still haunts the…

STOCKHOLM, July 8 — The shift away from physical cash is no longer a future prediction; it is a documented, accelerating trend…

WASHINGTON, July 8 — The Federal Reserve System, now more than a century old, stands as a testament to how financial panics…

WASHINGTON, July 8 — The Federal Open Market Committee’s target range for the federal funds rate stands as the central lever of…

WASHINGTON, July 6 — The Office of Financial Research has about 300 analysts and economists watching for the next threat to the…

NEW YORK, July 6 — Shaquille O’Neal found himself in an unexpected standoff at a Walmart checkout line this week. His American…

CHICAGO, July 5 — A personal finance expert is warning travelers that a common habit at the airport is costing them money,…

NEW YORK, July 5 — The figure that matters: Andrew Tobias is a New York City millionaire, and he will happily pay…

WASHINGTON, July 5 — The figure that matters for millions of American households: real average hourly earnings, adjusted for inflation, grew by…

WASHINGTON, July 5 — The Federal Reserve finds itself in a holding pattern, with interest rates steady and the central bank’s leadership…