If the Federal Reserve cuts its benchmark rate this year, it will push savings and CD rates lower. Here's what the central ...

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The central bank penciled in two rate cuts for 2025, but President Trump’s sweeping agenda has injected “remarkably high” ...

The Federal Reserve’s dot plot showed that officials still see two more rate cuts coming in 2025, despite a more pessimistic ...

Fed Chair Jerome Powell cites "high uncertainty" around the impact of Trump administration tariffs on key trading partners.

The Fed releases a report called the Summary of Economic Projections (SEP) four times per year, which tells the public where ...

Another rate cut may be on the agenda this year, but the Fed is surveying the economy before making its next move. Here's what you need to know about the federal funds rate — and why it matters.

That decision leaves the benchmark federal funds rate parked at a range of 4.25% to 4.5%, where it has sat since December. The Fed has now stood on the economy’s sidelines for two consecutive ...

Forbes Advisor has compiled this history as a handy guide to the course of the federal funds rate and the Federal Reserve’s monetary policy decisions since 1990. The federal funds rate is the ...

Commissions do not affect our editors' opinions or evaluations. The federal funds rate is one of the Federal Reserve’s key tools for guiding U.S. monetary policy. It impacts everything from the ...

Fed officials see the fed funds rate falling to 3.9% this year, on par with its previous December projection. Coming into the decision, markets had priced in two to three additional rate cuts this ...

The Federal Reserve on Wednesday decided yet again to stand pat on interest rates. Despite the Fed’s inaction, there are ...