The Federal Reserve meeting decision looms Wednesday afternoon, with the a hawkish Fed rate-cut expected. The stock market rally saw continued weak breadth. The Nasdaq dipped from record highs ...

The dollar index has climbed 3% since the election, reflecting reduced confidence in aggressive Fed cuts. FedWatch shows a 59.1% probability of a December rate cut, down from 82.5% last week.

The Federal Reserve will end its two-day November meeting on Thursday afternoon, and investors are all-but-certain that policymakers will decide to cut interest rates by a quarte ...

When the fed rate goes down, CD rates decline, and vice versa. The Federal Reserve held the federal funds rate steady for nearly a year but made its first rate cut in September 2024 and then made ...

It's the central bank’s third rate cut of 2024. The move reduces the Fed's target rate to between 4.25% and 4.5%. In its statement announcing the cut, the Fed now projects just two interest rate cuts ...

The result is that borrowers who have been hoping for much-lower-rate loans could be disappointed. Loan rates may barely budge if the Fed sticks with its plan to cut its key short-term rate only ...

ORLANDO, Florida, Dec 18 (Reuters) - The end of the Federal Reserve's interest rate-cutting cycle is suddenly in sight, and a complete U-turn with rate hikes next year can no longer be ruled out.

While the Fed's rate cut can help stimulate buyer demand and the opportunity to potentially benefit from higher selling prices, inflation still looms in many other areas of daily life. Add in ...

That has made economists more confident that the Federal Reserve will serve up another interest-rate cut later this month. "The CPI print confirms the market consensus of another 25bps rate cut ...

Traders in the federal-funds market were pricing in a near certain probability that the Federal Reserve will cut ... Fed will decide at its policy meeting this month to lower its benchmark rate ...

But don't pop the champagne just yet. Fed Chair Jerome Powell might rain on the party with hawkish comments, signaling a cautious stance on rate cuts for 2025. Analysts say Powell's tone could rattle ...

"The Fed increased its core inflation forecast and adjusted the dot plot; so rate cuts are being priced out and I think we have one more rate cut priced in for next year and that's less than it ...