While the Fed does not set mortgage rates, its decision has a direct impact on them. As of March 13, the latest data made ...

Here’s how the central bank’s interest rate stance influences car loans, credit cards, mortgages, savings and student loans.

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To cool the economy and bring inflation under control, the Fed embarked on an aggressive campaign to raise the federal funds rate during 2022 and 2023. The final hike was in August 2023, with the rate ...

After the March meeting, the next scheduled meeting for the Fed's policy committee is May 6 and May 7. Time for some interest rate history here. We've had a long saga of rate hikes — and a few ...

The Federal Open Market Committee did not cut rates this month, as it waits to see how President Donald Trump's tariffs play ...

Later today, after market trajectories have been active for hours, we’ll see the latest monetary policy statement from the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC), which is almost 100% certain to render ...

After taming the inflation surge from 2022, the U.S. Federal Reserve started cutting interest rates last September. While rate cuts are typically great for businesses, history suggests they often ...

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 ...

Chief among them have been stocks that zoomed higher in the frenzy around AI technology. Nvidia fell 3.3% as it hosted an ...

President Trump’s first-term tariffs failed to achieve their objectives of reducing the trade deficit and increasing domestic ...

To help consumers understand the historical significance of the Fed’s rapid rate hikes in the post-pandemic era, Bankrate compiled this guide of the Fed’s previous rate moves from 1981 to the ...