NEW YORK, July 30 — Wall Street stocks finished sharply lower yesterday after the Federal Reserve kept interest rates unchanged despite lofty US inflation as escalations in the...

The US Federal Reserve's policy meeting has become harder to predict as surging oil prices and renewed geopolitical tensions raise the risk of persistent inflation. While most…

Oil prices are back to jumping as Middle East tensions escalate, while the Federal Reserve kept interest rates on hold, with three of the central bank’s rate-setting committee…