The Fed meets eight times a year to assess the economy's health and set monetary policy, primarily through changes to the federal funds rate, the benchmark interest rate used by US banks to lend ...

IT stocks to buy: Amid US Fed rate cut buzz, experts have recommended four shares to buy on Monday — Infosys, Tech Mahindra, KPIT Technologies, and Persistent Systems ...

Federal Reserve (Fed) Bank of Atlanta President Raphael Bostic hit newswires during the overnight hours of Tuesday's US market session, noting that the US continues to perform well, and doesn't ...

On the campaign trail, Trump has repeated his past criticism of Fed Chair Jerome Powell -- whom he first appointed to run the US central bank -- and indicated he would like to have "at least" a ...

The Fed wields a powerful tool. Its benchmark lending rate, which influences borrowing costs broadly, either puts the US economy in a chokehold when rates are high, or it stimulates economic ...

But if the Fed veers from that steady pace, it likely would be to reduce rates less sharply to ensure inflation keeps falling, economists say. That may defy some forecasters’ view that the ...

Investors have once again been head-faked by the Fed. After seven false alarms where markets priced in a dovish pivot by policymakers, the Federal Reserve finally turned dovish in a big way—only ...

(Bloomberg) -- The Federal Reserve and many rich-world peers are widely expected to lower interest rates again in the coming week, right after a US presidential election that may not be decided yet.

"Pricing in the futures markets shows investors are putting a 63% chance on the Fed cutting interest rates by another 0.25 percentage point in December, to a range of 4.25% to 4.5%," said the Journal.

"The (Fed) has gained greater confidence that inflation is moving sustainably toward 2%, and judges that the risks to achieving its employment and inflation goals are roughly in balance,” the ...

With the US elections being over, Trump getting elected and the Fed having released its interest rate decision, we take a look at what next week has in store for the markets. On the monetary front ...

And economists still expect the Fed to cut its key rate by a quarter-point when it meets next week. “It's essentially the soft landing that many of us dreamed of,” said Gregory Daco ...