Thursday's Bureau of Labor Statistics job report showed slightly lower unemployment in June (4.1% compared to 4.2% in May) ...

New research from the Federal Reserve Banks of New York and San Francisco says markets put the odds of zero interest rates ...

Mortgage rates have dropped for five weeks in a row. But will they continue to do so this July? Here's what to consider.

Researchers from the Federal Reserve Banks of New York and San Francisco studied financial markets to divine the probability of the Fed's benchmark interest rate falling back to zero. During the 2008 ...

Inflation, which had fallen to 2.5% in 2024 from 6.6% in 2022, is expected to rise again as tariffs push up goods prices and ...

Learn what business lending rates are, how they work, and what factors affect them. Understand the differences in small ...

Financial markets—specifically derivatives—contain information about the range of probable future short-term interest rates.

The Federal Reserve can’t assume its benchmark lending rate won’t return to zero at some point in the future, according to a ...

The prospect of the Federal Reserve once again setting its short-term interest rate target at near zero levels at some point ...

The president's next pick for Federal Reserve chair, whom he pledged would be "somebody that wants to cut rates," is likely ...

By stubbornly refusing to lower interest rates despite ample data urging him to do so, Fed Chairman Jerome Powell is committing his third major policy blunder in six years. If he continues this ...

Donald Trump holds many contradictory beliefs and pursues them with vigor rather than making tradeoffs. A prominent example is his fight with Fed chair Jerome Powell over interest rates. Trump wants ...