The Fed’s interest-rate decision, July jobs numbers, a key tariffs deadline, fresh inflation data, and earnings from big tech companies highlight a packed economic and corporate calendar this week. Investors will be watching for more trade deals ahead of the Friday deadline for tariffs regarding several leading U.

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell and his colleagues will step into the central bank’s board room on Tuesday to deliberate on interest rates at a time of immense political pressure, evolving trade policy,

After months of criticizing Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, President Donald Trump took the fight to the Fed’s front door on Thursday, publicly scorning the central bank chief over the ballooning costs of a long-planned building project.

A sprawling $2.5 billion project to renovate the central bank’s headquarters in Washington has become the focal point of attacks from the Trump administration.

Intel offers rosy outlook, railroad megamerger talks are on, UnitedHealth suffers another blow, and more news to start your day.

Real estate equities were outperformers this week as earnings season kicked into gear with a solid slate of results from residential, technology, and retail REITs.

For background, contemplate a recent New York Times opinion piece by former Federal Reserve Chairs Ben Bernanke and Janet Yellen. While they’re no longer at the central bank, their ideas about inflation remain. And what they imagine inflation to be speaks to the real problem at the Fed.