FEDERAL RESERVE

Americans with student-loan debt used to be more likely to own their homes by age 30 than others. Not any more.

Information technology and residential construction emerge as the economy's leading sectors, in the latest Beige Book.

Student loans have soared in popularity over the past decade, with the aggregate student loan balance reaching $966 billion at the end of 2012.

The Fed contacted the SEC and CFTC to see if there was any trading tied to Tuesday's early release of minutes.

If unemployment data continues to improve, the head of the Atlanta Fed said he may support cutting back on quantitative easing.

Ben Bernanke dismissed worries that the Federal Reserve’s money printing is raising the likelihood of a global currency war.

N.Y. Federal Reserve head William Dudley points to Washington's partisan division as the reason for the Fed's asset purchases.

On Wed, the Fed kept its quantitative easing program intact, saying it expects moderate GDP growth in 2013. The vote was 11-1.

U.S. stock index futures point to a higher open Wednesday ahead of the conclusion of the Federal Reserve's policy meeting.

Recent U.S. data should convince the Fed that the economy has resumed growing after a temporary pause.

However, unlike the sharply higher manufacturing data in the previous report, the March figures show little difference.

Here’s a rundown of some nuggets from Wednesday’s Beige Book, which can be used to get a feel for the direction of the U.S. economy.

U.S. stock index futures pointed to a slightly higher open Wednesday ahead of the Census Bureau’s latest data on housing starts and building permits and the Federal Reserve's Federal Open Market Committee's meeting minutes.

The Fed Wednesday announced a new round of monetary easing and, in a historic turn, tied future actions to a numerical jobless target.

Asian shares rose Wednesday as strong overnight performances in global equities and firmer economic sentiment in Germany buoyed sentiment.

A statement following a two-day meeting of the U.S. central bank led to predictably boring results. That did not stop robot stock traders from going berserk at the announcement.

The Federal Reserve on Wednesday stuck to its plan to keep stimulating the U.S. economy until the job market improves and repeated its vow to keep rates near zero until mid-2015.

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, in a speech in Indiana, went back to explaining why the Fed is good for us.

U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke Monday robustly defended the bank's unconventional program to stimulate the U.S. economy, quantitative easing.

Applications for U.S. home mortgages rose last week as interest rates dropped to record lows in the wake of the Federal Reserve's latest stimulus efforts, data from an industry group showed on Wednesday.

Uncertainty since the start of the 2008 financial crisis may have caused the U.S. unemployment rate to rise.