the Federal Reserve opted to keep its benchmark interest rate unchanged after reducing it three times consecutively last year. This decision reflects a more cautious stance as the Fed aims to ...

The Federal Reserve held the line on Wednesday on its benchmark interest rates ... D.C. Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images While the Fed does not set mortgage rates, its decision has a direct impact ...

The move marked the Fed's second consecutive decision to maintain the current level of interest ... Getty Images U.S. gross domestic product, or GDP, declined at a 0.3% annualized rate over ...

The Federal Reserve is widely expected to hold its key interest rate steady when it meets ... tackle with its monetary policy. The Fed's monetary policy decision Wednesday will take place amid ...

Scott Olson/Getty Images By some key measures ... days before it was set to announce an interest rate decision. At the ensuing meeting that month, the Fed decided to hold interest rates steady.

Fed chair Jerome Powell. (ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS /AFP via Getty Images ... rate cuts, given the economic uncertainty sparked by the Trump administration’s federal job cuts and tariffs ...

The Fed's decision on interest rates today is a lesson in the ... March's reading showed it's trending downward, which is good for rate cuts, but there's a major caveat: tariffs.

The Federal Reserve’s decision ... interest rate unchanged yet again will likely leave mortgage rates hovering near their current level as the spring homebuying season gets underway. The Fed ...

Credit cards: Even if the Fed were to make dramatic rate cuts, the interest you pay to borrow money on a credit card likely will remain sky-high. In fact, the average credit card rate actually ...

The CME FedWatch Tool estimates the probability of future interest rate moves. The tool is updated in real-time in response to economic data releases, Fed statements, and market movements.

If tariffs prove to be short-lived one-time price shocks, the Fed could look past them ... with the Federal Open Market Committee’s interest-rate decision on Wednesday. “Powell has talked ...