U.S. stocks are leaping Monday after China and the United States announced a 90-day truce in their trade war. Each of the ...

All told, the S&P 500 rose 184.28 points to 5,844.19. The Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 1,160.72 to 42,410.10, and the ...

The Federal Reserve’s interest-rate decisions have a wide-ranging influence on your personal finances, affecting more than ...

Matthew Rose, an Opinion editorial director, hosted an online conversation with three economists about the future of the ...

An idea of a "Trump put" regained steam following more than a month of hard-to-digest volatility brought on by the ...

The stability of the US financial system ... of money in and out of the country — to prevent it from falling further. The US does not have to go the way of Venezuela and Turkey. The Fed is ...

The outburst come less than a day after Powell warned that Trump’s tariffs were “highly likely” to cause inflation and could put the Fed ... suggested the Fed does not plan to cut rates ...

Tariffs likely to put ... money. When inflation falls below 2% or the Unemployment Rate is too high, the Fed may lower interest rates to encourage borrowing, which weighs on the Greenback. How ...

A week later, Trump put the most punishing levies on ... and residential real estate prices also were elevated. The Fed said the U.S. banking system remained sound and resilient, as firms ...

It was Powell’s non-stop money printing ... Powell pushed the Fed’s key interest rate to 10 times where it had been – from half a percent to over 5 percent – the system fell apart.

Mortgage lenders pay close attention to those yields because they represent the general cost of borrowing money over the long term. When the 10-year yield drops, mortgage rates usually fall, too.

“I play one of my guitars,” the Federal Reserve chairman said. “I do Zoom calls with my kids and ... spats with President Trump, Powell has put in some time at the top of the news.