Gold is historically the best inflation hedge, currently in a bull market with strong potential returns, making it a top ...

Friday's bigger-than-expected drop in retail sales for January has prompted traders to nudge up their expectations for 2025 rate cuts by the Federal Reserve to as many as two. After the retail-sales ...

Because the economy is doing well, the Fed can take its time to decide when and whether to lower interest rates.

The Federal Reserve will likely wait until September before cutting its policy rate, traders bet on Thursday, as data kept ...

Traders dialed back bets on interest-rate cuts after Wednesday’s hotter-than-expected inflation report. In recent trading, ...

Traders in the federal-funds futures market on Wednesday morning pushed back their expectations for the Federal Reserve to cut its benchmark interest rate to the fourth quarter of 2025, after weighing ...

Over two days of testimony this week before Congress, Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell indicated there's no imminent ...

Treasury yield is more than 1% below the Fed funds rate, the Fed tends to cut rates soon after. Read what investors need to ...

The agency doesn't actually set the funds rate — banks do that — but "the Fed assumes that banks will use it as a floor in their own lending," Forbes added. Rate changes usually take "at least ...

the Fed on Wednesday left its benchmark short-term interest rate unchanged. The so-called fed-funds rate influences other interest rates in the economy that affect households and businesses.

The Federal Reserve held interest rates steady in January, but it's not uncommon for the federal funds rate and mortgage rates to move in different directions for some time. Mortgage rates will ...

The dollar posted moderate gains Wednesday after the Fed kept interest rates unchanged and removed ... the FOMC voted unanimously to keep the fed funds target range unchanged at 4.25%-4.50% ...