Two months into the second Trump administration, the Fed decided to keep the policy interest rate unchanged. That stance will ...

President Trump turned up the pressure on the Federal Reserve, saying on social media Wednesday evening that the central bank ...

Such a scenario could force the Fed to make a tough choice between keeping pressure on inflation by leaving its policy rate in the current 4.25%-4.50% range or cutting rates to cushion the labor ...

U.S. retail sales for February, reported on Monday in the last set of hard economic data Fed officials will see before kicking off their two-day policy meeting on Tuesday, were weaker than expected.

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If other measures show inflation worries rising, the Fed could come under more pressure to get inflation down more quickly. “I do worry when I see consumer expectations moving in the opposite ...

This will strain the Fed’s monetary policy, pressuring it to make short-run decisions that may compound the longer-run costs of the tariffs.

The U.S. economy is showing signs of weakness, which could keep the S&P 500 under pressure this year ... target for the unemployment rate. The Fed adjusts the federal funds rate (overnight ...

Economists at Goldman Sachs, for example, raised the odds of a recession in the next year to 20% from 15%. An economic downturn would pressure the Fed to lower interest rates to boost the economy ...