The Federal Reserve is complicated and carries out numerous functions.

If the Federal Reserve cuts its benchmark rate this year, it will push savings and CD rates lower. Here's what the central bank says it expects right now.

The US Federal Reserve launched a potential overhaul of stress tests for big banks that would average the results over two ...

Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland President Beth Hammack said on Wednesday that high levels of uncertainty in the U.S.

Here's what you need to know about how the Fed's latest decision affects your savings -- and what you should do to maximize your money now ... the rate banks use to lend and borrow money.

The pause was the second in as many Fed meetings so far in 2025 after the bank issued three consecutive cuts in the final months of 2024. Now ... you don't have both, use this lull in rate ...

The Fed meets eight times a year to assess the economy's health and set monetary policy, primarily through changes to the federal funds rate, the benchmark interest rate US banks use to lend or ...

The Fed has been capturing its loss via what it calls a deferred asset, an accounting measure that it must use future profits ... the central bank may now finally be moving in the direction ...

The Federal Reserve says it’s ready to inject liquidity into the financial system if markets break down. That came straight ...

Don’t count on it, several Fed watchers said. With inflation still running above the US central bank’s target and levy ... rises — as it’s done now. The type of market dysfunction that ...