After several cuts in late 2024, the Fed has pressed pause for most of 2025. When will interest rates drop again?

Fed officials penciled in a target range of 4.25-4.5 percent for its benchmark federal funds rate by the end of this year, which signals two quarter-point rate cuts or one half-point cut.

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said the balance of risks to the labor market and inflation have shifted, signaling a ...

The Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) lowered its rate by 0.25 percentage points in December, bringing the federal funds rate to a target range of 4.25% to 4.50%.

Fed Governor Michelle Bowman spoke this weekend and maintained her projection of three interest rate cuts in 2025 despite the ...

The Fed left its benchmark interest rate unchanged following its July policy meeting amid uncertainty over the impact of ...

The Fed has now held the target federal funds rate at 4.5 percent for six months, and this comes after reducing the target rate by 100 basis points from September 2024 to December 2024.

The central bank's decision leaves the benchmark federal funds rate at a range of 4.25% to 4.5%, where it has remained following all five of the Fed's policy meetings this year.

The benchmark short-term federal funds target rate stands at a 23-year high, expressed as a range from 5.25% to 5.5%. That means Americans have been paying higher interest rates on mortgages ...

The Federal Funds Rate is a short-term rate related to the cost of debt in the American economy. Some expected the Federal Reserve to cut only 25 basis points, but they delivered a 50 basis point cut.

In Powell's view, the Fed is further from its goal on inflation than that of the job market, which means the Fed must keep rates high. Change that equation, though, and the Fed could quickly begin to ...