The relationship between interest rates and inflation is an important concept for investors to understand because of the widespread impacts it can have on the greater economy. When inflation ...

The Labor Department reports Wednesday on what happened with inflation last month. Later, the Federal Reserve will provide an updated forecast of where interest rates are going. Let's turn to ...

On the surface, the relationship between interest rates and inflation is obvious: When prices get too high, the Federal Reserve counteracts by raising target interest rates. That makes borrowing ...

So if inflation cools, interest rates may as well. And that could make borrowing with a whole range of products more affordable, particularly if you're a homeowner considering tapping into your ...

Relative to ex-shelter inflation, interest rates remain quite high, especially mortgage rates. As I've noted many times in the past year or so, shelter cost inflation has been high and declining ...

That's where the Federal Reserve System comes in — its primary function is to maintain a low inflation rate and unemployment rate in the U.S., which it does by controlling interest rates ...

Given the experience of the last couple of years, people are now paying more attention to inflation and that ... is behind the move to keep interest rates where they are. Still, he stressed ...

If President Donald Trump’s budding trade war is driving inflation, it’s not showing up in the data yet. Core inflation — a metric that excludes volatile food and energy costs — shows ...

The Berenberg economics team led by Holger Schmieding produced this striking chart, showing how interest-rate ... team says it's the inflation market that is right and the rates market that ...