The U.S. Federal Reserve has a dual mandate. First, it's tasked with keeping inflation under control, which means ensuring the Consumer Price Index (CPI) increases by around 2% per year. Second, the ...

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

Jerome Powell, the Fed chair, said that “further progress may be delayed” on inflation because of tariffs. Officials kept ...

If the Fed doesn't cut rates in May, consider rate cuts essentially done for 2025, Bianco Research's Jim Bianco says. Read ...

Disappointing macroeconomic data releases from the US, combined with US President Donald Trump’s tariff announcements, ...

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 prov ...

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

Therefore, the S&P 500 declined on each occasion because of those economic shocks, not because the Fed was cutting rates. However, the below chart undeniably shows that periods of high interest ...

Bitcoin jumped nearly 8% to $87,470 after the Federal Reserve’s latest policy decision. Here are five key takeaways on how ...

Stocks rose on Wednesday after the Federal Reserve indicated two rate cuts are still in its forecast for 2025.