The Federal Reserve is one of many influences on mortgage rates, along with inflation and economic growth. Some or all of the mortgage lenders featured on our site are advertising partners of ...

The Federal Reserve’s preferred inflation gauge showed price pressures cooled last month, rising 2.1% in September from a year earlier. The personal-consumption expenditures price index ...

Commissions do not affect our editors' opinions or evaluations. In a move that was widely anticipated, the Federal Reserve has cut the federal funds rate by 0.25 percentage points, to a new target ...

That’s because, as one former Federal Reserve chair famously said, central bankers’ job is to remove the punchbowl right when the party is just getting started. Said differently, they have to ...

The election isn't the only important US news event this week. On Thursday, the Federal Open Market Committee will announce its next decision on interest rates, and it's likely to be another cut.

The Federal Reserve likely will stick to the business at hand when it wraps up its meeting Thursday with another interest rate cut. Market attention probably will turn to what Chair Jerome Powell ...

Though President Biden quickly rescinded Schedule F when he took office in 2021—before any positions could be converted out of the federal government’s competitive service—that hasn’t ...

Additionally, Trump’s second term is almost certain to mean changes at regulatory agencies. The Federal Reserve, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, the ...

Interest rates are on the decline. Or at least the federal funds rate is. That seems to be the confusing but somewhat accurate interpretation in recent weeks after the Federal Reserve issued its ...

After slashing its key interest rate by a hefty half percentage point in September, the Federal Reserve is expected to lower rates by a more measured quarter point Thursday and several times next ...

Stocks have already been going "nowhere fast" since the Fed issued a jumbo-sized rate cut in September, Yardeni said. The S&P 500 has climbed 2% since the Fed's last policy meeting, while the S&P ...