The Federal Reserve is widely expected to hold interest rates steady next week, with investors focused on new central bank projections that will show how much weight policymakers are putting on recent soft data and how much risk they attach to unresolved trade and budget issues and an intensifying conflict in the Middle East.

The Fed is staying put on interest rates and won’t be making any cuts until at least September, based on new data from a June 5–10 Reuters survey of 105 economists.

Former JPMorgan Chase chief economist Anthony Chan discusses whether Israel's attack on Iranian nuclear facilities will prompt the Fed to cut interest rates on 'Varney & Co.'

Trump has demanded the U.S. central bank lower its benchmark overnight interest rate immediately by a full percentage point, a dramatic step that would amount to an all-in bet by the Fed that inflation will fall to its 2% target and stay there regardless of what the administration does and even with dramatically looser financial conditions.

Bond traders are now fully pricing in two rate cuts by the Federal Reserve this year after fresh data on producer prices and weekly jobless claims gave US

The Fed is looking less data-driven and more stubborn with every economic data release. Following the fourth consecutive cooler-than-expected inflation report, the Labor Department released fresh data Thursday that showed weekly claims for unemployment benefits reached their highest in eight months at 248,

Cooler-than-expected U.S. inflation last month deepened conviction in financial markets on Wednesday that the Federal Reserve will start cutting interest rates by September and deliver a second reduction by the end of this year.