The Federal Reserve wanted to sit back and monitor how an economy where inflation already was elevated would respond to ...

By mid-2027, our forecast is 125 basis points below the federal-funds rate implied by futures markets. We think the market is projecting a terminal rate that’s too high, reflecting an ...

President Trump urged the Federal Reserve on Friday to cut interest rates and ripped the head of the independent central bank ...

With stocks in a steep decline and tariffs inducing recession jitters, the patience of investors may be tested.

The Federal ... funds rate three times this year, or a total of three-quarters of a percentage point, according to Pantheon Macroeconomics. "But with economic policy uncertainty elevated, stock ...

In the wake of President Donald Trump’s tariff rollout last week, trillions of dollars have been erased from stock markets, Wall Street deal-making has seized up, hedge funds have liquidated some of ...

The stock market picked up steam after the Federal ... The move to hold the federal funds rate in a target range between 4.25% and 4.5% was widely expected by traders. Still, Wall Street will ...

To balance both goals, the U.S. central bank shapes monetary policy by adjusting the target range on a benchmark interest rate, known as the federal funds ... but the stock market may continue ...

Before the Great Recession, the market-driven “effective” federal funds rate averaged 6.38 percent.

Traders in the federal-funds futures market were pricing in a potential interest-rate cut from the Federal Reserve in June, as they parsed fresh data Friday on U.S. employment in March. Fed-funds ...