But let's take a look at interest rates, which have a direct impact on your finances. The Federal Reserve cut interest rates by 0.5% at its last policy meeting and is gearing up for a 0.25% ...

After slashing its key interest rate by a hefty half percentage point in September, the Federal Reserve is expected to lower rates by a more measured quarter point Thursday and several times next ...

The Fed is playing politics and that's the subject of the riff. Almost every new economic number coming out of Washington shows just how political the Fed decision was to launch their 50 basis ...

Investors have once again been head-faked by the Fed. After seven false alarms where markets priced in a dovish pivot by policymakers, the Federal Reserve finally turned dovish in a big way—only ...

According to recent data published by the Fed, the regulator’s cumulative loss has reached $203 billion. First and foremost, as we have already said in our previous articles, the mainstream ...

For all the uncertainty about the Federal Reserve’s interest-rate moves in 2024 and beyond, there’s another major area of ...

Miranda Marquit, MBA, is a freelance contributor to Newsweek’s personal finance team. She has an M.A. in journalism from Syracuse University and has been writing and podcasting about money since ...

Zack has a bachelor's from New York University, Tisch School of the Arts. Delmaine Donson / Getty Images While the Fed rate cuts don’t directly affect mortgage rates, changes to the federal ...

The Federal Reserve and Chairman Jerome Powell have a lot riding on Tuesday's election, even as the central bank has spent 2024 keeping as much distance as it can from politics. The next president ...

For the first time in four years, the Federal Reserve's benchmark, short-term rate was scaled back by a half percentage point. The previous 23-year high remained stagnant since July 2023 until ...

The fed funds rate (also known as the federal funds target rate) is the interest rate at which commercial banks lend to each other overnight. Below, CNBC Select explains how and why the Federal ...

Federal Reserve governor Chris Waller said Monday that the central bank needs to proceed with "more caution" when cutting rates as he absorbs recent data showing a strong job market and hotter ...