This year’s seesaw action in the stock market has emphasized two important concepts for investors: Diversification can lower ...

President Donald Trump could be setting up Fed Chair Jerome Powell as a 'scapegoat' if a recession hits, according to an MSU economist.

On February 4, Mr Trump made one of the most extraordinary statements of his political career, saying the US would take an “ownership position” of the Gaza Strip and force its 2 million residents to ...

CD rates are a product of their economic times, and we're currently in a rosy period. At other times in history, CD rates ...

Discover how potential Federal Reserve rate cuts and economic shifts influence investments, tariffs, and Treasury yields.

For example, from January through April 2008, the Fed cut the federal funds rate—its main interest rate for adjusting monetary policy—several times, concerned with a slowing economy and rising ...

A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to unfreeze federal funding that was allocated to Maine from the U.S. Department of Agriculture — funds that had been withheld following ...

Here's how the Fed's rate hike affects specifically credit card APRs, plus how you can avoid being impacted too much. The Fed controls what's called the federal funds rate, or the interest rate ...

“The hurdle to change the federal funds rate one way or the other has increased due to tariffs.” Chair Jerome Powell said Friday the central bank doesn’t need to be in a hurry to make any ...

However, the Federal Reserve aimed to implement a restrictive policy by maintaining the Fed Funds rate above the inflation growth rate for an extended period. This approach is intended to soften ...

which is tied to the level of the federal funds rate. The drawdown of the Fed’s balance sheet has taken central bank holdings from a peak of $9 trillion in 2022 to the current level of $6.8 ...