Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell held a news conference after the central bank cut interest rates by 25 basis points, bringing its benchmark federal-funds rate to a two-year low.

Kenneth Rogoff worries about the incoming US administration’s plans to weaken the central bank’s independence.

The Australian sharemarket surged in 2024, adding nearly $200bn to the value of the benchmark ASX 200 index, despite a ...

President-elect Donald Trump and Federal Reserve Chair Jay Powell have clashed before, and there is a chance they could do so ...

A little jawboning won’t hurt, but firing Powell or designating a ‘shadow chairman’ would.

As 2024 ends, bankers' predictions for what would happen this year to community banks, digital assets and regulation have ...

What has changed since 1974 to prevent gold from competing with and potentially disciplining the dollar's excesses? Nothing ...

NPR's Leila Fadel talks to David Wessel, director of the Hutchins Center on Fiscal and Monetary Policy at the Brookings Institution, about the U.S. economic outlook for 2025.

The Federal Open Market Committee, which votes on changes in interest rates, includes a rotating cast of presidents from 11 ...

Analysts are unsure what the Federal Open Market Committee will do with monetary policy in 2025. The panel projects two rate ...

We recently compiled a list of the Jim Cramer Talked About These 17 Stocks After The Fed’s Rate Cut. In this article, we are ...