Fed officials noted, “Uncertainty around the economic outlook has increased. The Committee is attentive to the risks to both ...

These are today's mortgage and refinance rates. Mortgage rates rose after the House passed the GOP tax bill, and they could ...

The conservative justices seem ready to give Trump near-total control over the executive branch—with one notable exception.

The real problem (is) that US democracy is fundamentally broken, that Congress is incompetent, and that none of the country’s ...

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“It’s important to remember that the Fed – our job is to be the steady hand, not respond to the daily gyrations either of the stock market or of policy pronouncements,” Goolsbee said in an ...

The Fed said it will maintain the federal funds rate at its current range of 4.25% to 4.5%, where it's been parked since the central bank last moved to lower short-term rates in December.

Yet that is precisely where the Fed sits. Its operating premise—that ... for putting that money to work in loans. Liquidity, not hand-wringing, is what will keep a shaky world from cascading ...

I recently wrote this article about Trump appointing a shadow Fed president, a strategy that could neutralize Powell’s impact until he leaves his position. In an interview Sunday, Trump said ...

On the other hand, experts said, if the Fed lowers rates to stimulate the economy in the face of a potential slowdown, it threatens to boost spending and worsen inflation. Last month, Trump urged ...

Should this be the case, the Fed would have to weigh whether inflation is close to its 2 percent target, how weak the labor market would consequently become, and then how much time it would take ...