Investors weigh an important matter: whether barriers are stronger to raising rates—or cutting them.

The Federal Reserve sets the federal funds target rate, also known as the fed funds rate, which is the interest rate at which commercial banks lend to each other overnight. Below, CNBC Select ...

The Federal Reserve Board announced an emergency rate cut on Sunday, March 15, lowering interest rates to near zero. This rate cut comes less than two weeks after the Fed cut interest rates by ...

WASHINGTON – The Federal Reserve lowered its key interest rate by another quarter percentage point Wednesday but forecast a significantly slower pace of rate cuts next year following a recent ...

Investopedia / Photo Composite by Alice Morgan / Getty Images As widely expected, the Federal Reserve lowered its key interest rate by a quarter of a percentage point to a range of 4.25% to 4.5% ...

The Federal Reserve today made its final interest rate decision of 2024, capping a year during which the central bank provided some financial relief to inflation-weary borrowers in September by ...

While borrowers may be hoping that the Fed's latest move helps to lower mortgage rates, the Federal Reserve's 25 basis point rate cut is unlikely to lead to a dramatic drop. Here's why ...

The Federal Reserve announced its third 2024 federal funds rate cut in December, continuing the shift that began with September's aggressive half-point reduction. This new cut reduced the ...

If anyone needed any further convincing that a Fed rate cut is no guarantee of lower mortgage rates, today is a great piece of evidence. Perhaps "great" is the wrong word. There was nothing ...

That suggests to Bank of America that the Federal Reserve is already done cutting interest rates. The Federal Reserve's rate-cutting cycle is already done as the latest jobs report revealed an ...