You may not think much about the federal funds rate day to day, but this key number impacts many areas of your financial life and the economy as a whole. The Federal Reserve — the country’s ...

The Federal Reserve has battled a variety of economic troubles over the past 35 years. Between tech busts ... to the course of the federal funds rate and the Federal Reserve’s monetary policy ...

Diccon Hyatt is an experienced financial and economics reporter who has covered the pandemic-era economy in hundreds of stories over the past two years ... Federal Reserve lowered its key interest ...

In justifying its decision to keep the federal funds rate steady at a range of 4.25% to 4.50% after its March meeting, the Federal Reserve cited ... rate jumped from 3.5% in the beginning of ...

Diccon Hyatt is an experienced financial and economics reporter who has covered the pandemic-era economy in hundreds of stories over the past two years. He's written hundreds of stories breaking ...

down from 2.5% in 2024.___AP Business Writer Alex Veiga in Los Angeles contributed to this report. The Federal Reserve kept its benchmark interest rate unchanged Wednesday and signaled that it ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Reserve kept its benchmark interest rate unchanged Wednesday and ... end of this year from its current level of 2.5%. Both are above the central bank’s 2% target.

The cuts brought the federal-funds-rate target to a range of 4.25% to 4.5%. Powell offered an upbeat ... “We will take on board lessons of the past five years and adapt our approach where ...