Taylor Tepper covered banking, investing and pretty much everything else in personal finance for more than a decade, with his work appearing in the New York Times, Fortune and MONEY magazine, as ...

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 ...

Editorial Note: We earn a commission from partner links on Forbes Advisor. Commissions do not affect our editors' opinions or evaluations. In justifying its decision to keep the federal funds rate ...

Federal Reserve officials stuck to their projection of two 25-basis-point interest-rate reductions this year while baking in slower economic growth and higher inflation, according to the central ...