Investors debating the Federal Reserve's next rate move get to hear from Chair Jerome Powell himself Monday afternoon, when ...

No wonder many have characterised the Fed’s interest rate stance as an “insurance policy”. Its beneficial impact comes with ...

Usually, the Federal Open Market Committee makes decisions on adjusting its federal funds rate in unison. But not this time.

The federal funds rate was cut to 5% from 5.5%. It could lower mortgage rates and stimulate consumer spending in Houston, ...

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

The Federal Reserve's much-anticipated interest rate-cutting campaign started with a bang after Jerome Powell and the Federal ...

Fed Governor Bowman warns against interpreting rate cuts as signs of economic weakness, stressing the risks of stoking ...

U.S. equities are on pace for their first weekly loss in about a month as investors are less willing to take new risk in the face of a wall of uncertainty. The Dow Jones Industrial Average, the S&P ...

A handful of Federal Reserve officials on Monday left open the door to additional large interest-rate cuts, noting that ...

Usually, the Federal Open Market Committee makes decisions on adjusting its federal funds rate in unison. But not this time. The Federal Reserve recently lowered the target range of its benchmark ...

You can thank, at least in part, a group of policymakers at the U.S. central bank known as the Federal Open Market Committee (or FOMC for short). This committee’s decisions affect everything ...

Minutes of the Federal Open Market Committee meeting last month reveal significant discussion about how policymakers should respond to a potential trade war between the United States and China.