The U.S. Federal Reserve has a dual mandate. First, it's tasked with keeping inflation under control, which means ensuring the Consumer Price Index (CPI) increases by around 2% per year. Second, the ...

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 ...

President Donald Trump late Wednesday criticized the Federal Reserve, urging the central bank to reduce interest rates, hours after it chose to leave borrowing rates unchanged. The move marked the ...

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

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.

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

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

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

There was no surprise on Wednesday as the central bank chose to leave the federal funds rate unchanged at a range of 4.25% to 4.5%.

The Fed's own economic projections call for the unemployment rate to rise to 4.4% by the end of 2025, up from 4.1% in February but relatively low by historical ... The Federal Reserve's Interest ...

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 ...