The federal funds rate is the main lever the Federal Reserve uses to manage the economy. In keeping with its mandate, the Fed prefers inflation to rise by 2% and for the labor market to be as ...

Officials are debating when to restart interest rate cuts, as high prices linger and Trump’s policies add to economic ...

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 ...

There is a very clear correlation between the 2-year Treasury and the Fed funds rate, as this chart below shows ... as they await future economic and inflation data, leaving rates between 4. ...

Coming into 2024, interest rates had taken a rollicking ride, surging in 2022, as inflation ... the three Fed rate actions, all cuts to the Fed Funds rate, on the chart, and while I will come ...

The trade war touched off during President Donald Trump's first term eventually prompted the Fed to lower interest rates because, rather than feeding inflation, the global and U.S. growth ...