Financial markets are pricing in a normalized federal funds rate near 3% over the coming year, even as measures of expected ...

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

Interest rates typically go up when a Fed chair steps down.

The Federal Reserve concluded its last meeting of the year with a widely anticipated 25 basis point cut to the federal funds rate (FFR), bringing it to a range of 3.50-3.75%. Inflation has proven ...

Wednesday's decision to reduce the benchmark federal-funds rate by a quarter point—to between 3.5% and 3.75%, a three-year low—is aimed at protecting against a sharper-than-anticipated slowdown in ...

The Federal Reserve began the long-awaited cuts to the federal-funds rate on Sept. 17, 2025, when it trimmed the target range by 25 basis points to 4.00%-4.25%, and ...