Directors at two-thirds of the Federal Reserve's regional banks voted to leave the interest rate charged to commercial banks ...

Monetary policy isn’t the only macro driver. Fiscal decisions increasingly influence the same variables traders associate ...

Market optimism is being driven by expectations of a September Fed rate cut, with stocks, bonds, and gold all rising despite steady inflation. Many analysts focus too much on rate changes, but the Fed ...

While most economists believe that central banks set interest rates, in reality, they are set by time preferences of ...

The Federal Reserve’s most important monetary policy tool is the Fed Funds Interest Rate target. By raising or lowering this benchmark, the Fed hopes to influence the cost of credit throughout the ...

Would-be home-buyers have been stymied by the higher level of mortgage rates, but this headwind may abate, depending upon who ends up running the Fed and how the bond markets react to that change.

Aug 12 (Reuters) - The U.S. central bank should not take tariffs' muted effect on inflation so far as an opportunity to cut interest rates, but rather as a sign that monetary policy is "appropriately ...

The Federal Reserve's 25-basis-point rate cut on Wednesday has set the benchmark interest rate at its lowest in three years, potentially lowering mortgage rates further. Economists anticipate another ...

U.S. tariffs and Europe boosting fiscal stimulus reinforce our view of policy rates staying higher versus pre-pandemic levels. We go underweight euro area bonds. U.S. stocks slid 3% last week on ...

The neutral rate—the interest rate at which monetary policy is neither accommodative nor restrictive—is a theoretical concept that cannot be directly observed, only estimated. The neutral rate is an ...

Some BOJ board members said Japan’s real interest rate is very low and hinted at more rate hikes, raising the policy rate to ...