The Fed prioritizes shrinking its balance sheet over rate cuts to fight inflation. See why its disciplined approach supports growth, jobs, and long-term stability.

The latest labor market data reinforces the central bank’s wait-and-see approach to lowering borrowing costs, despite ...

Unexpectedly solid job gains in June bolstered the case for the Federal Reserve to keep interest rates on hold to keep ...

The Fed can’t decree credit easy or tight, and it can’t because there’s no credit by decree in the first place. Credit is ...

At least three Federal Reserve policymakers spoke out this week in favor of holding interest rates steady for the time being, ...

Now, with the most recent CPI reading (for May 2025) coming in at an annualized rate of just 2.4%, the Fed has penciled in ...

The fed funds rate has been up and down in recent years as the central bank has tried to keep the economy on steady footing through the upheavals of the pandemic era. The Fed initially responded ...

Fed Meeting Lowers Estimates, Keeps Rates the Same Today’s anticipated result from the latest Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting of no movement on the 4.25-4.50% Fed funds rate for the ...

Officials at the Federal Reserve left interest rates unchanged, as they brace for the effects of President Trump’s policies on trade, taxes and immigration. 8 Federal funds target rate 6 No ...

The Federal Reserve Board’s Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) voted Wednesday to leave the target range for the federal funds rate unchanged at 4.25% to 4.50%, citing solid economic growth and a ...

Mortgage rates closely follow changes in the federal funds rate. For example, 30-year fixed mortgage rates jumped from 2.68% in late 2020 to over 7% by September 2023 as the Fed raised rates.

The Fed has now held the target federal funds rate at 4.5 percent for six months, and this comes after reducing the target rate by 100 basis points from September 2024 to December 2024.