Slightly sticky inflation along with policy uncertainty is likely to postpone the next rate cut until June. We expect three total rate cuts in 2025, bringing the year-end fed-funds rate to 3.50%-3 ...

Federal Reserve policymakers worry U.S. President Donald Trump's trade policy could deal a blow to economic growth, but are ...

At the end of its Federal Open Market Committee session on March 19, 2025, the Fed announced holding the federal funds target interest rate steady ... the year to review how the economy is going ...

Federal Reserve officials are prepared to hold their policy rate steady to minimize the risk that President Donald Trump’s ...

In a speech March 7, Fed chair Jerome Powell gave some hint that the Fed needs to wait it out before cutting rates. U-M forecasters expect the next Fed ... drove the federal funds rate from ...

The federal funds rate impacts ... the Fed could cut rates, regardless of the employment picture, to improve activity. How to prepare your finances for what comes next It’s impossible to ...

the Fed dramatically increased the federal funds rate to reduce post-COVID-19 inflation. For the next year, the rate remained the same. Incidentally, rates were much lower before taming post-COVID ...

That’s the same as its projection in December. The short-term fed funds rate, now at a median 4.4%, is seen moving down to 3.9% this year, 3.4% in 2026 and 3.1% by 2027.