Tariffs and fears of a recession complicate what will likely be Jerome Powell's last year as chairman of the central bank.

Fed Chair Jerome Powell was scheduled to hold a press conference following the announcement at 2:30 p.m. ET. You can watch that live here or on YouTube.

Yet that is precisely where the Fed sits. Its operating premise—that prosperity breeds inflation—gets the causality exactly wrong. From that faulty assumption flows a second delusion ...

End of year Fed Funds Rate expectations have been almost perfectly flat so far this week after falling a quarter point in the last week of April, and then jumping more than a quarter point at the ...

The decision to keep the Fed's benchmark borrowing rate between 4.25% and 4.5% was widely expected by financial markets despite the president's repeated demands for the Fed to lower interest rates.

President Donald Trump has called for the Fed to cut rates, but the central bank is in a tough spot. One-year inflation expectations are surging, while data doesn't yet indicate a cut is needed.

The latest Fed survey shows how companies are responding to higher tariffs, and the top response is that companies are passing cost increases through to consumers. In last place: "Relocating ...

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A rare mix of simultaneous selloffs in stocks, the dollar and long-dated Treasurys took hold on Monday after President Donald Trump lashed out again at Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell in a ...

Few expect Fed Chair Powell to change the current target rate of 425 – 450 basis points. The CME FedWatch put a 96.8% probability of rates staying the same at the time of writing. Investors ...

During an interview with Bloomberg TV last week, Fed Gov. Christopher Waller, who has said he is inclined to "look through" tariff-driven price growth, said he needs to see where trade policy settles ...

The Fed held its benchmark interest rate steady at its last two meetings, and the market expects that trend to continue as the probability of the federal funds rate remaining at its current target ...