After a prolonged decline, U.S. inflation-adjusted interest rates have increased somewhat since the pandemic—possibly ...

The U.S. bond market has been in rough patch since President Donald Trump announced his “liberation day” tariffs, with ...

If President Donald Trump’s large tariffs remain in place for some time, the economy is likely to slow to a crawl, Federal ...

Virtually since his inauguration, Trump’s been pushing to bend the Fed to his will and help bring down rates. On March 19, ...

the Goldman economists said they expect the Fed to deliver a package of three consecutive 25-basis point “insurance cuts” starting in June versus July previously, lowering the funds rate to 3. ...

President Donald Trump has been laying siege to Columbia University, canceling $400 million in federal grants to the elite school. In exchange for having funds restored, Columbia's administration ...

Hong Kong’s Hang Seng crashed 8.81%. The 2 year UST yield now sits at exactly 3.5%, suggesting the Fed Funds rate is at least for now viewed to be 75 basis points too high. Yet I do not see a ...

According to the CME FedWatch Tool, the federal funds futures market is now pricing in as many as five rate cuts in 2025. For the upcoming May 7 meeting, there's a 61% probability of a 25 basis ...

Should such a quintet of cuts come to pass, the federal funds rate would then be 3.00% to 3.25%, down from the 4.25% to 4.50% where it has been since December last year. Economists generally expect ...

By Colby Smith President Trump’s global trade war has significantly raised the bar for the Federal Reserve to lower interest rates, as tariffs risk worsening an already knotty inflation problem ...

Those effects complicate the task of the Fed, which has a dual mandate: promoting full employment (and economic growth) and holding the rate of inflation ... it using index funds that track ...