Friday's bigger-than-expected drop in retail sales for January has prompted traders to nudge up their expectations for 2025 rate cuts by the Federal Reserve to as many as two. After the retail-sales ...

The Federal Reserve will likely wait until September before cutting its policy rate, traders bet on Thursday, as data kept ...

Traders in the federal-funds futures market on Wednesday morning pushed back their expectations for the Federal Reserve to cut its benchmark interest rate to the fourth quarter of 2025, after weighing ...

Consumer price inflation reared its ugly head to start the year, dashing hopes for the Fed to lower borrowing costs anytime soon.

Because the economy is doing well, the Fed can take its time to decide when and whether to lower interest rates.

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell will tell the Senate banking committee the Fed isn't "in a hurry" to resume its interest rate cutting campaign.

Hedge funds started 2025 buoyed by choppier markets driven by uncertainty over new U.S. President Donald Trump's policies and ...

The European Central Bank (ECB) cut rates on Jan 30, the Bank of Canada did as well on Jan 29 and the Bank of England (BOE) is likely to do so next week – steps that, with the Fed in a holding ...

President Donald Trump has called for interest rates to come down and escalated his criticism of the Federal Reserve chair, Jerome Powell, after this week's policy meeting. But the president ...

The Federal Reserve held the fed funds rate steady this week, keeping upward pressure on borrowing costs for all kinds of loans, partly because of the recent lack of progress against inflation.

The FOMC maintained the Fed Funds Rate at 4.25-4.50% and will continue reducing Treasury and Mortgage-Backed Securities holdings. Chair Powell emphasized the Fed's commitment to a 2% inflation ...

the Fed on Wednesday left its benchmark short-term interest rate unchanged. The so-called fed-funds rate influences other interest rates in the economy that affect households and businesses.