Bond investors have sent Treasury yields significantly higher in recent weeks even as the Federal Reserve has cut interest ...
After they’re done analyzing the outlook for inflation and employment, Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell, the leader of the group known as the Federal Open Market Committee, emerges and ...
While the Federal Reserve and the U.S. Treasury are separate entities, they work together on various issues, including managing the national debt. The Fed purchases and holds Treasury securities ...
The Federal Reserve on Thursday made its second rate cut of this year, with the decision coming less than two months after ...
It ensures the stability of our financial markets. It regulates financial institutions. The Federal Reserve operates under a mandate from Congress to “promote effectively the goals of maximum ...
Two days after Donald Trump won the presidential election, the Federal Reserve announced a 25-basis-point interest-rate cut.
The Fed is widely expected to cut its key interest rate by a quarter percentage point on Thursday, at the conclusion of the ...
U.S. stocks are ticking higher ahead of the Federal Reserve’s announcement coming later in the afternoon about what it will ...
Dismissing Jerome Powell would be a serious breach of long-standing norms of central bank independence. That doesn’t mean we ...
Fed rate cuts and lending rates do not always experience like-to-like movement. Here’s a quick look at rates, and what to ...
To understand how the Federal Reserve works, think of the U.S. economy as a farm and the Fed as a farmer in charge of water, representing money and credit. “Our farmer wants enough water flowing ...