Officials at the central bank have splintered over whether rising unemployment or elevated inflation poses the bigger ...

Some Federal Reserve officials who supported cutting a key interest rate earlier this month could have instead backed keeping ...

A pause would give Federal Reserve officials time to assess the effects of the three rate cuts made this year.

WASHINGTON -- The Federal Reserve on Wednesday raised its short-term borrowing rate another 0.25%, intensifying the central bank's fight against inflation despite concern that previous rate increases ...

The Fed has been closely monitoring the CPI or consumer price index to determine how much to raise interest rates. Their goal is to cool inflation without crashing the stock market and sending us into ...

The Federal Reserve cut interest rates by a ¼-point yesterday, as expected. The stock market rallied and Treasury yields fell. Read more here.

Mortgage rates stayed near 6.3% after the Fed’s December cut, as officials weigh further moves amid persistent housing ...

"Mortgage interest rates went down before the Fed cut rates in September but went up after," says Ali Wolf, chief economist ...

The Federal Reserve has battled a variety of economic troubles over the past 35 years. Between tech busts, a financial crisis ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Reserve reinforced its inflation fight Wednesday by raising its key interest rate for the seventh time this year and signaling more hikes to come. But the Fed announced a ...

Because the U.S. has the world's largest economy, fluctuations in America's interest rates affect much more than domestic ...

HELOC rates could fall in 2026 if the Fed rate-cutting trend continues, but there are other possibilities, too.