If the Federal Reserve is politicized and weakened, the winners will be large financial institutions and the losers will be all of us. Unfortunately, that’s already happening before President ...

However, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, speaking at a press conference in November, clarified that such actions would fall outside the legal powers of the presidency. During Trump's first ...

The S&P 500 has performed well over the past year, in part because of expectations that the Federal Reserve will continue cutting interest rates. The futures market currently puts the probability ...

Critics also argue the Federal Reserve Bank violates the Constitution by being too closely tied to the private sector, and it lacks transparency and accountability. Some people are opposed to the ...

The Federal Reserve meets for its first two-day rate-setting session of 2025 on Tuesday, January 28, and Wednesday, January 29, 2025. At the end of its Federal Open Market Committee session on ...

The U.S. job market again defied an anticipated slowdown, with firms adding more than a quarter of a million jobs in the last full month of Joe Biden's presidency and leaving Federal Reserve ...

The Federal Reserve sets the federal funds target rate, also known as the fed funds rate, which is the interest rate at which commercial banks lend to each other overnight. Below, CNBC Select ...

Stocks have soared in 2024, but a new presidential administration, a potential pivot by the Federal Reserve and shifting consumer sentiment could change market dynamics in 2025.

Investopedia / Photo Composite by Alice Morgan / Getty Images Welcome to Investopedia's live blog of the Federal Reserve's December meeting. Here, we will bring you the latest news on the Fed's ...

The Federal Reserve today made its final interest rate decision of 2024, capping a year during which the central bank provided some financial relief to inflation-weary borrowers in September by ...

The Federal Reserve on Wednesday announced its third consecutive interest rate cut of 2024, reducing its benchmark rate by 0.25 percentage points amid cooling inflation. Yet in a blow for ...

Most Federal Reserve officials expect the pace of interest-rate reductions to slow next year and beyond as inflation proves sticky, according to the central bank's updated Summary of Economic ...