The Federal Reserve has plenty of reasons to deliver a widely expected interest rate cut on Thursday, including a decline in inflation and a cooling in labor markets that makes it harder for Americans ...

Last September, the US Federal Reserve officials made a surprise 50 basis point interest rate cut; the first US interest rate ...

On Sept. 18, the Federal Reserve announced that it was cutting the Fed funds rate by 0.5%. To understand the impact on credit ...

On the other hand, the Fed has a tendency to lower its federal funds target rate when things don't seem right with the U.S.

Federal Reserve chair cannot easily prepare for president-elect’s second term but might benefit from being less aggressive ...

Data earlier this week showed inflation by the Fed's targeted measure running at 2.1% in September, just a notch above its 2% ...

CD rates have gone through ups and downs since 2009. The Motley Fool has compiled average CD rates over that period. Learn ...

Markets are pricing in a near-certainty that the FOMC will lower its benchmark rate by a quarter percentage point.

Michael Bordo and Mickey Levy document the 50-year history of the Shadow Open Market Committee and highlight the differences ...

Bitcoin tapped an all-time high, and Ethereum soared as the Federal Reserve's latest quarter-point rate cut boosted market ...

In fact, Fed rate cuts don’t even affect all interest rates ... not go down – they could even go up." History supports what Bramlett says. The chart below shows the past 20 Fed rate changes ...

With the Federal Reserve lowering ... to understand where CD rates are going, it is good to know where they’ve been. Here are ...