They were not, though, in a panic or worried about an imminent recession. Instead, they were thinking that the old interest ...

After the Fed’s pivotal interest rate cut this week, policymakers face the question of how much further to reduce borrowing ...

The Fed made an unexpected half-point rate cut, its first since 2020, as it aims to balance robust employment with its ...

Michelle Bowman said such a big initial rate cut could complicate the Fed's mission of getting inflation back to its 2% ...

The only Federal Reserve official to dissent from the central bank’s aggressive half-point interest-rate cut earlier this ...

A Federal Reserve official predicted quarter point rate cuts if data looked ‘fine’. But he also set out a scenario for a ...

U.S. stocks gained following the release of the statement and updated quarterly economic projections before reversing course ...

Here’s how inflation and the cost of borrowing have changed since the Fed started raising interest rates in March 2022. After ...

The US isn't out of the words with inflation, and one fixed-income strategist thinks the Fed's jumbo rate cut will make ...

But while the Fed’s action will surely have political consequences, it wasn’t a political decision. The straight economic ...

The Fed cut its short term interest rate by 0.50%. How will this affect mortgage rates, auto loans, and credit cards? Does ...

Federal Reserve officials, in their first public comments since the U.S. central bank cut interest rates by half a percentage ...