U.S. President Donald Trump said Wednesday he is not planning to fire Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell even as he unleashed a fresh round of criticism against the central bank chief for not ...

Ajay Banga, the new president of the World Bank, poses in his office at World Bank headquarters in D.C. on Nov. 7. (Allison Shelley for The Washington Post) By Steven Mufson.

A return-to-office requirement from the World Bank is producing grumbling among its staff, although the development lender is giving employees more money for commuting and childcare.

The latest spat between the Trump administration and the Federal Reserve is sounding more like a home-improvement reality TV ...

Washington makes a turbulent backdrop to the spring meetings of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank, headquartered in the US capital as anchors of America’s economic and financial clout.

The Washington, D.C.-based lender is worried the new administration’s austerity axemen, Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, could have them in their sights.

The U.S. Senate voted on Thursday to confirm Jonathan Gould as head of the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, the ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The World Bank on Tuesday slashed its global growth forecast for 2025 by four-tenths of a percentage point to 2.3%, saying that higher tariffs and heightened uncertainty ...

The World Bank sharply cut its global economic growth projections Tuesday, citing disruption from trade uncertainty in particular. It now expects the global economy to expand by 2.3% in 2025, down ...