W hen the Federal Reserve decides what to do with interest rates to manage the economy, the data usually speaks for itself.

U.S. job growth slowed marginally in April and employers continued to hoard workers, but the outlook for the labor market is ...

The US economy added a surprisingly strong 177,000 jobs in April, a slight slowdown from March’s downwardly revised 185,000 ...

The U.S. economy is showing troubling signs, with consumer spending and business investments slowing amid a trade war and ...

U.S. manufacturing contracted for a second straight month in April as tariffs on imported goods strained supply chains, ...

The U.S. economy contracted for the first time in three years in the first quarter, swamped by a flood of imports as ...

A car-buying frenzy, stoked by tariff fears, drove US consumer spending in March to its biggest monthly gain in more than two ...

Consumer spending leapt 0.7% from February, according to a Commerce Department report released Wednesday that showed ...

President Trump has made a series of false or misleading statements about consumer prices, while shoppers are seeing some ...

The U.S. trade deficit in goods widened to a record high in March as businesses ramped up efforts to bring in merchandise ...

Sentiment has fallen well below what the economic data shows, indicating growing pessimism over tariffs and the labor market.

How this gloomy mood translates into spending, hiring and growth will become clearer in the coming days and weeks.