Federal Reserve

During a 2025 that's been punctuated by uncertainty, the last thing US investors will have wanted to hear is that expectations for further Federal Reserve interest rate cuts are balanced on a knife’s edge.  After putting the odds of a June rate cut at ‘50/50', economist Jon Faust has...

The Federal Reserve's decision on Wednesday to hold interest rates steady at 4.25%-4.50% for the fourth consecutive meeting has triggered an escalating backlash, with both political and industry voices now demanding that Chairman Jerome Powell step down immediately. What began as a political feud...

Economist Peter Schiff issued warnings about America’s economic trajectory during Wednesday’s Federal Reserve meeting, predicting the central bank’s decade-long policies will trigger an unavoidable crisis worse than 2008. What Happened: The Federal Open Market Committee kept...

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell defended the decision to keep interest rates unchanged on Wednesday, saying inflation has eased but not enough to warrant cuts, especially with trade and geopolitical risks clouding the outlook. "Incoming inflation data has been encouraging," Powell said during...

The Federal Reserve held interest rates steady at 4.25%-4.50% for a fourth straight meeting on Wednesday, aligning with market expectations, while signaling slower growth and hotter inflation ahead compared to its March forecast. The June Fed statement struck a slightly more confident tone, noting...

U.S. stocks inched higher by midday Wednesday, as traders weighed geopolitical uncertainty and awaited the Federal Reserve's June policy decision. President Donald Trump declined to offer a clear response on whether the U.S. would directly intervene in the escalating Israel-Iran conflict. The...

The Federal Reserve is widely expected to hold rates steady at 4.25%-4.50% on Wednesday as President Donald Trump's volatile tariff policy clouds the economic outlook. The decision will mark the fourth straight pause in the rate-cutting cycle that began in September. Yet, rather than the rate...

U.S. retail sales for May are expected to post a sharp monthly decline, potentially reinforcing concerns that tariff headlines and economic uncertainty are starting to pinch consumer spending. That would mark the second monthly drop in 2025 after January's 0.9% plunge. Monthly declines in retail...

As the U.S. dollar has slumped to its lowest level in over two years, emerging market stocks rallied in near-perfect inverse fashion—a trend that may be just at its early stages. The iShares MSCI Emerging Markets ETF (NYSE:EEM), which holds more than 800 EM stocks, posted its ninth consecutive...

President Donald Trump escalated his criticism of Jerome Powell on Thursday, blaming the Federal Reserve chief's rate stance for higher U.S. debt costs. According to USA Today, Trump said higher interest payments were the result of "one numbskull," a reference to Powell, and accused him of ignoring...

The greenback hasn’t been this weak in over two years, as mounting evidence of disinflation and cracks in the labor market stripped away its appeal, prompting a louder call from economists for the Federal Reserve to cut interest rates. The U.S. dollar index—a trade-weighted gauge measuring...

Editor’s Note: This article has been updated with additional content. Producer prices snapped back in May after an April decline, but the rebound fell short of sparking inflation concerns, suggesting tariffs and supply frictions have yet to bleed broadly into the economy. The Producer Price...

Inflation resumed its climb in May, snapping a four-month streak of easing price pressures, yet rising input costs from tariffs failed to significantly spill into consumer prices. The annual rate of increase in the Consumer Price Index (CPI) was 2.4% last month, marking a slight acceleration...

Decentralized Finance, or DeFi, has stormed onto the financial stage like a disruptive underdog, promising to upend the traditional banking system with its blockchain-based, intermediary-free approach to money management. By enabling peer-to-peer transactions through smart contracts on public...