The Federal Reserve on Wednesday announced an interest rate cut of 0.5%, bringing rates down from their previous 23-year high ...

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

In his view, labor data was not weak enough to justify the bigger cut — but by doing so, the Fed is now stuck with bigger ...

The Fed's action aims to alleviate high interest rates but may exacerbate inflation, stressing consumers and increasing the ...

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The Dow Jones and the S&P 500 surged to all-time highs in the wake of the Federal Reserve's announcement that it was lowering interest rates by half a percentage point.

Investors have sent stocks and bonds higher on expectations of a soft landing. But some Republicans think the central bank ...

While the federal funds rate is not what consumers pay directly, it affects borrowing costs for home equity lines of credit, ...

The cut sets the federal funds rate target range at 4.75% to 5%. The effect could be especially good for variable and indexed ...

Stocks on Wall Street soared Thursday a day after the Federal Reserve slashed its benchmark interest rate by 0.50 percentage points, with investors cheering the central bank's move to head off a ...

Traders on Thursday added to bets the U.S. Federal Reserve's next rate cut will be smaller than the one it delivered on ...

On Wednesday, the Federal Reserve lowered its benchmark interest rate by half a percentage point. The action will take the ...