Forbes Advisor has compiled this history as a handy guide to the course of the federal funds rate and the Federal Reserve’s monetary ... when the FOMC changed interest rates, the size of each ...

Fed Chair Jerome Powell cites "high uncertainty" around the impact of Trump administration tariffs on key trading partners.

The central bank penciled in two rate cuts for 2025, but President Trump’s sweeping agenda has injected “remarkably high” ...

Two months into the second Trump administration, the Fed decided to keep the policy interest rate unchanged. That stance will ...

As widely expected, the Federal Reserve held its key interest rate steady. Officials are waiting for the economy to send ...

Even as the economy undergoes what may be wrenching changes, the Federal Reserve on Wednesday is expected to signal it could ...

The Federal Open Market Committee did not cut rates this month, as it waits to see how President Donald Trump's tariffs play ...

Here’s how the central bank’s interest rate stance influences car loans, credit cards, mortgages, savings and student loans.

The Federal Reserve on Wednesday announced that it will leave a key interest rate unchanged for the second consecutive meeting amid persistent inflation and uncertainty about the economy.

Lowering interest rates to soften the negative shock risks embedding higher inflation into the economy.

The Federal Reserve is expected to hold interest rates steady at the end of its two-day meeting next week, despite some encouraging news on inflation. Although inflation receded last month ...

To cool the economy and bring inflation under control, the Fed embarked on an aggressive campaign to raise the federal funds rate during 2022 and 2023. The final hike was in August 2023, with the rate ...