To help consumers understand the historical significance of the Fed’s rapid rate hikes in the post-pandemic era, Bankrate compiled this guide of the Fed’s previous rate moves from 1981 to the ...

Forbes Advisor has compiled this history as a handy guide to the course of the federal funds rate and the Federal Reserve’s monetary policy decisions since 1990. The federal funds rate is the ...

Prices are now projected to rise faster than expected at least in part and perhaps largely due to Trump's plans to levy ...

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

By law, the U.S. Federal Reserve has two primary mandates. First, it aims to keep the Consumer Price Index (CPI) measure of ...

Later today, after market trajectories have been active for hours, we’ll see the latest monetary policy statement from the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC), which is almost 100% certain to render ...

The Federal Reserve kept its forecast for two rate cuts this year amid Trump's tariffs, which are expected to push up ...

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

The Federal Reserve was widely expected to leave interest rates unchanged on Wednesday, at the conclusion of its March ...

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 why. The federal funds rate is a key tool used by the Federal Reserve to keep the economy running smoothly and manage inflation. Here’s a closer look at the historical Fed interest rate ...

The latest dour projection arrived Tuesday, when Fitch Ratings cut its U.S. growth forecast for this year to 1.7 percent from ...