The debate over the Federal Reserve's reluctance to lower rates has intensified recently. Those hoping that the Fed would ...

Financial markets are betting the Federal Reserve sticks to its "wait and see" approach to interest rates this summer, but that by September it will have waited and seen enough to start cutting ...

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

Recession worries are building once again, as some consumers fear the prospects of higher prices and continued high interest ...

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

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 ...

A pair of key reports — the monthly jobs report and another on consumer prices — will be critical in determining the central ...

The administration and its supporters are fond of blaming the Fed for economic problems. They should concentrate, instead, on fixing the nation's fiscal problems.

Fed Chair Jerome Powell testified that the U.S. economy is in a "solid position" with unemployment relatively low and ...

Just two months after President Donald Trump began a brief detente with Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell, he’s ramping up his old pressure campaign. Although Trump has stopped short of ...

Each of the rate cuts is forecasted to be a 0.25% cut, which would take the Fed funds rate range down to 3.5% to 3.75% by the ...