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 ...

It’s almost certainly the most closely scrutinized scatter chart in financial markets. Every three months since January 2012, ...

Powell is admitting that inflation is still too high, but the Fed still plans to cut interest rates by .25%. So why are ...

Dean Greenberg, President of Greenberg Financial Group explained that interest rates on mortgages actually went up after the ...

The Federal Reserve cut interest rates today -- a move that can have a significant impact on your money. The Fed's actions ...

The Federal Reserve sets the federal funds rate. Certain members of the Fed ... case the need to tap into savings arises,” deRitis explained. He added that laddering also reduces the risk ...

That generalization can be misapplied, however, in cases where the Fed is reacting to changes in relative interest rates. That is, sometimes the Fed’s action pushes interest rates in one direction or ...

The Fed’s dot plot is a chart that records each Fed official’s projection for the central bank’s key short-term interest rate. The dot plot is updated every three months and is meant to ...

The Fed kicked off the current rate-cutting cycle with a larger-than-normal 50 basis point cut in September, when the benchmark federal funds rate was at a range of 5.25% to 5.5%, the highest ...

The Federal Reserve's policymakers announced that they will cut the benchmark federal funds rate by a quarter point in ...

In a statement released on Friday, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland President Beth Hammack noted that she dissented because the data supported holding the policy rate steady, per Reuters.