The Federal Reserve, a government agency responsible for keeping the American economy stable, sets the federal funds rate.

The Federal Reserve is expected to keep its key interest rate at the target range of 3.5% to 3.75%, but traders are looking ...

The January meeting marks the first since Fed Chair Jerome Powell confirmed the Department of Justice subpoenaed the central bank.

The central bank’s policy stance can influence consumer savings and borrowing, from car financing to home equity loans. Here’s how it works.

A Federal Reserve split over where its priorities should lie cut its key interest rate Wednesday in a 9-3 vote, but signaled a tougher road ahead for further reductions. The FOMC's "dot plot" ...

Federal Reserve policymakers cut interest rates for the third straight meeting on Wednesday while signaling there may be only one cut next year as rates get closer to a neutral level. The Fed lowered ...

The US Federal Reserve held its first meeting of 2026 from Tuesday (January 27) to Wednesday (January 28) amid growing ...

Thanks to its latest decision on Wednesday – its final one for 2025 – the Federal Reserve has now reduced its key overnight lending rate by 1.75 percentage points since it began its rate-cutting cycle ...

Learn how open market operations and quantitative easing differ in scale and purpose, impacting economic growth and monetary ...

According to experts, the Federal FOMC's decision to keep rates unchanged has important implications for global monetary policy, including India.

Trump’s interference with the Fed is not just about interest rates but the independence of the central bank, which has increasingly come under pressure during the Republican President’s second term. W ...