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This reader wonders whether CD rates, high-yield savings accounts and bond ladders are still smart moves, even if interest ...

The Federal Reserve didn’t just cut interest rates at its September meeting. It cut BIG, opting for a 50-basis point move.

BofA Global Research raised its forecast for the Federal Reserve's anticipated interest rate cuts for the remainder of this ...

The US Fed expects to move more slowly than the market expects, even though but everyone agrees on the direction, and on the ...

The bank used options prices to map out the implied moves in the S&P 500 for every day between now and the day after the ...

Members of the FOMC also provide their individual guesses on where the fed funds rate will be in the future. The consensus of ...

In the clamor of the campaign season, we are missing what should be a landmark event.

A more aggressive interest rate cut would suggest deeper worries that the job market is buckling under the Fed’s continued ...

Now that the Fed’s first rate cut in four years is a fait accompli, there are still opportunities to open CDs with ...

We concluded that this was the right thing for the economy and the people we serve,” the Federal Reserve chair, Jerome Powell ...

The Federal Reserve has at last cut interest rates but our columnist points out a host of concerns that could weigh on ...