Here's a quick primer on interest rates and what you need to know before tomorrow's Fed decision. The Fed meets eight times a year to assess the economy's health and set monetary policy ...

“This will be no different.” Ahead of the meeting, analysts said Trump’s big win might make the Fed reluctant to continue cutting rates at a rapid clip. “Various policy uncertainties may ...

Recent developments have drawn ire from left and right: The Fed’s recent abrupt turn from declaring that jumbo rate cuts were off the table to surprising the market with a half-point cut in ...

Investors have once again been head-faked by the Fed. After seven false alarms where markets priced in a dovish pivot by policymakers, the Federal Reserve finally turned dovish in a big way—only ...

The Fed has long guarded its status as an independent institution able to make difficult decisions about borrowing rates, free from political interference. Yet during his previous term in the White ...

Federal Reserve officials, following their internal guidelines, have gone silent to prepare for their interest-rate policy meeting on Nov. 7. Based on the speeches from Fed officials over the past ...

Knowing the Fed's plans can help plot your course for the next 12 months. The Federal Open Market Committee is meeting today, tomorrow, and again in December. After making a larger half-percent ...

But if the Fed veers from that steady pace, it likely would be to reduce rates less sharply to ensure inflation keeps falling, economists say. That may defy some forecasters’ view that the ...

Federal Reserve officials are expected to cut interest rates by a quarter percentage point at their meeting Thursday because inflation has continued to make progress toward their 2% goal ...

Fed Chair Jerome Powell said the results of Tuesday's presidential election, which paved the way for a U.S. chief executive who has pledged widespread deportation of immigrants, broad-based ...

That is barely above the Fed's 2% inflation target and in line with ... which helped the economy expand at a healthy clip in the July-September quarter. Incomes rose more slowly last month ...

The Fed has two official goals ... and consumers are spending at a robust clip. Such resilience could call into question whether rates need to come down so much and so quickly.