Trump and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent argue that the Fed could reduce its rate. The Fed pushed it higher in 2022 and 2023 to fight inflation. Asked at the press conference whether Trump's ...

The market has quickly adjusted its expectations for Fed rate cuts in 2025, moving from four expected cuts to two, according to Weinand. He believes that outside of a recession, the Fed will not ...

Swaps traders, who sharply lowered their expectations for Fed rate reductions on Monday on easing US-China trade tensions, priced in about 55 basis points of easing for the year — implying at ...

That, in essence, is the question that investors face with so-called rate-hedged bond funds. These funds combine a standard portfolio of bonds with specialized investments in various derivatives ...

Fed-funds futures traders have dialed back their expectations for the number of Federal Reserve interest-rate cuts expected in 2025, taking the most likely scenario down to just two cuts ...

The Fed held the Fed Funds Rate at 4.25-4.50%, citing solid labor market conditions and elevated inflation. Chair Powell emphasized a "wait and see" approach, highlighting "uncertainty" and "no ...

That caution dominated the Fed’s meeting this week, when officials opted to again extend a pause in interest rate cuts. Jerome H. Powell, the chair, stressed that the economic backdrop was so ...

Trump, speaking one day after the Fed, as financial markets had widely expected, kept its key borrowing rate unchanged, said cutting interest rates would be “like jet fuel” for the economy ...

Our bullishness isn’t inspired by what the Fed did yesterday. Rather, it’s all about what it didn’t do. The Federal Reserve didn’t shut the door to a June rate cut. During yesterday’s ...

The economy added better-than-expected 177,000 jobs while the unemployment rate held steady at 4.2%, providing further assurance about the economy's health. Given the Fed’s comments, we have ...