Fed-funds futures traders were pulling back Tuesday on the possibility of any rate cut from the Federal Reserve during the first half of the year and pricing in a more than 50% chance of no action.

Making a chart of the federal funds rate in 2025 might turn out to be the easiest job in finance. As inflation stays stubbornly high and jobs hold steady, the financial markets are pricing in a good ...

Such talk seriously influences the direction of stock prices. Catering to the stock market, instead of pursuing its stated goal of getting inflation to 2%, is not what the Fed sho ...

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell will tell the Senate banking committee the Fed isn't "in a hurry" to resume its interest ...

Powell's testimony to US Congress last week emphasized that the central bank is not rushing to lower interest rates.

Federal Reserve policymakers have warned against moving too soon with an interest rate cut despite pressure from President ...

The Federal Reserve has a number of functions to help the U.S. economy operate efficiently. One of the most visible functions ...

Things aren‘t going as planned. Inflation just rose to an 18-month high, and the Fed has stopped saying that it‘s making “progress toward the 2 percent ...

This week’s forthcoming Consumer Price Index report could show easing year-on-year inflation, increasing the potential for ...

Fed-funds futures traders were reacting to Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell's first day of testimony by factoring in a slightly greater chance of no action or only one rate cut by year-end. They ...

A Fed interest rate cut won’t be coming until at least September, if at all this year, following a troubling inflation report ...