The Federal Reserve has paused its rate-cutting cycle and markets are unsure when the central bank will bring interest rates lower again. Meanwhile, treasury yields and consumer borrowing costs, as ...

Financial markets are still concerned about inflation. The Fed influences short-term interest rates, which are falling, but ...

High interest rates and the rising cost of funding were already a top concern for CFOs. Now, that concern could grow ...

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 US Federal Reserve could cut rates three or four times this year if inflation data cooperates, with a first cut possible ...

For now, expectations for interest rate cuts in 2025 are relatively limited. This may limit the potential for lower mortgage ...

Investors in interest-rate futures markets expect the Federal Reserve to stay on hold with interest rate moves until May or June, projections that didn't change much after minutes from the Fed's ...

Higher interest rates suppress economic ... rate cut in a cycle Since 1994, the Federal Reserve has initiated six rate-increase cycles. The following chart shows how the S&P 500, an index ...

Bitcoin has given up all of its January gains as worries over inflation and Fed monetary policy push traders to cut risk.

If all the talk of high interest rates has left you wondering what the Fed's committee does — or what the Federal Reserve even is, for that matter — here's our primer on the Federal Reserve ...