Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell signaled Monday that more interest rate cuts are in the pipeline but suggested they would occur at a measured pace intended to support a still-healthy economy.

After two Fairfield County fintechs became the first to be chartered under Connecticut’s new “innovation bank” charter earlier this year, a third company is planning to take the same leap.

Having all but tamed inflation, the Federal Reserve is poised to do something Wednesday it hasn’t done in more than four years.

With interest rates and mortgage rates on the decline, mortgage refinancing activity has spiked.

Plenty of uncertainty still surrounds this week’s Fed meeting. How much will the policymakers decide to reduce their benchmark rate, now at 5.3 percent? Will it be enough to avert a recession?

Middletown-based Liberty Bank announced Thursday that it’s adding a range of new, artificial intelligence-infused customer engagement tools from tech provider Salesforce.

Hiring by America’s employers picked up a bit in August from July’s tepid pace, and the unemployment rate dipped for the first time since March in a sign that the job market may be cooling but remains sturdy.

Vessel Technologies, the modular housing developer that’s rapidly growing its presence in Connecticut, is seeking to transform a West Hartford nursing home into its next apartment project.

The minutes of the Fed’s July 30-31 meeting, released Wednesday, said the “vast majority” of policymakers “observed that, if the data continued to come in about as expected, it would likely be appropriate to ease policy at the next meeting.”