Fed’s Stockton, Chief U.S. Economic Forecaster, Will Retire

The Federal Reserve Board said David Stockton, its head of U.S. economic research and forecasting since 2000, is retiring Sept. 30 after three decades at the central bank.

Stockton, 57, leads 325 people as director of the Division of Research and Statistics, the Fed said today in a statement in Washington. No successor was named.