The Federal Reserve made a 0.50 percentage point cut, double the typical reduction. Here's what's behind the decision.

The Fed's cutting cycle in 1995 sparked an economic boom, with the stock market more than doubling in value by the end of the ...

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

On Wednesday, Fed Chair Jerome Powell announced that the central bank would begin cutting Fed interest rates, starting with a ...

The decline in mortgage costs, influenced by expectations of the Federal Reserve’s rate moves, could revive interest in ...

"Everybody's happy" about the Federal Reserve's rate cut – at least in real estate – potentially opening the floodgates to ...

Mortgage rates continued to decline this week, taking a little more pressure off America’s tight housing market as ...

The Federal Reserve's closely followed overnight reverse-repo facility already has begun to reflect Wednesday's big ...

In the short term, the reduction will lead to slightly lower interest rates on mortgages, auto loans, and credit card debt.

Boeing may prevent its debt being downgraded to junk by issuing more stock, which would deal another blow to current ...

Policymakers from London to Frankfurt are signaling limited appetite to follow the US with rapidly cuts in borrowing costs, ...

With the stock market's surge on Thursday to fresh records, something extra has been taking hold of equities in the wake of ...