The Federal Reserve sets the federal funds target rate, also known as the fed funds rate, which is the interest rate at which commercial banks lend to each other overnight. Below, CNBC Select ...

It’s almost certainly the most closely scrutinized scatter chart in financial markets. Every three months since January 2012, ...

Another rate cut may be on the agenda this year, but the Fed is surveying the economy before making its next move. Here's what you need to know about the federal funds rate — and why it matters.

The Fed releases a report called the Summary of Economic Projections (SEP) four times per year, which tells the public where ...

Consumers welcomed this change, as many experts anticipated several rounds of planned interest rate cuts would finally bring ...

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

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

The Federal Reserve has a playbook for fighting inflation, and another for boosting the economy when unemployment is rising.

President Trump is pushing an aggressive policy against America's main trading partners that economists broadly agree will ...

The Fed’s dot plot is a chart that records each Fed official’s projection for the central bank’s key short-term interest rate. The dot plot is updated every three months and is meant to ...