The Federal Open Markets Committee sets the federal funds rate—also known as the federal funds target rate or the fed funds rate—to guide overnight lending among U.S. banks. It’s set as a ...

Here's what you need to know — and which option you should focus on to be prepared if the Fed cuts rates. The Fed has indicated over the last few months that rate cuts could be on the horizon.

But now, with the U.S ... of Dallas, said in a speech. “I will need to see more of the uncertainty resolved about which economic path we’re on.” Raphael Bostic, head of the Atlanta Fed ...

March 28 (Reuters) - The Fed is close to delivering a rare soft landing for the U.S. economy but it faces yet ... division of Thomson Reuters, is the world’s largest international multimedia ...

chief U.S. economist at T. Rowe Price. “It’s problematic for the Fed. I don’t see how they can justify a June cut with this strong data.” Policymakers have made it clear in recent months ...

To move the needle and curb spending further, the Fed has kept interest rates paused at a 23-year high at its last three meetings. What goes up must come down, though, and at some point ...

Japan — the world’s last bastion of negative interest rates — appears ready to tighten its monetary policy next Tuesday, raising the potential for a mild to more forceful reaction in ...

A key measure of U.S. inflation rose as expected in February, putting a spotlight on whether price growth will be cool enough this spring to justify an interest-rate cut by midyear. The overall ...

On Wednesday, Fed Chair Jerome Powell firmly shut the door ... Lockheed Martin has been awarded a $17 billion contract by the U.S. Missile Defense Agency to develop the Next Generation Interceptor ...

one interest-rate strategist on Tuesday—understandably—called the March CPI “one of the most critical U.S. data releases in recent memory.”) To understand why, it helps to look at how Fed ...

Powell made the comments during an address at a U.S.-Canada policy forum on Tuesday. He indicated that the Fed is unlikely to shift its interest rates until the inflation rate shrinks further.

(Bloomberg) -- The world’s biggest bond market extended this ... When asked about the possibility of hiking, Fed Bank of New York President John Williams said that while it is “not” his ...