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Trump says U.S. interest rate is at least 3 points too high
U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday called on the Federal Reserve to lower the federal benchmark interest rate by at ...
Next Fed leader may struggle to deliver the rate cuts Trump wants, watchers say
Some investors have staked out positions in futures markets that will profit if interest rates drop immediately after Jerome ...
Fed paper says risk of falling back to near zero rates still in play
The prospect of the Federal Reserve once again setting its short-term interest rate target at near zero levels at some point ...
President Trump: Our Fed rate is at least 3 points too high
Another round of the White House-Federal Reserve dispute saw President Donald Trump urge the Fed to decrease its interest ...
Fed at risk of a more divided, perhaps politicized, future: strategist
The Federal Reserve's next policy meeting in July may produce two dissents, from board members Christopher Waller and Michelle Bowman, which could signal a more fractured group of policy makers in the ...
Factbox-Major brokerages retain rate cut expectations after Fed keeps rates steady
Most Wall Street brokerages reaffirmed their rate cut forecasts after the U.S. Federal Reserve kept its policy rate unchanged ...
Fed sees ~9% probability of rates hitting zero in medium- to long-term
Researchers from the Federal Reserve Banks of New York and San Francisco studied financial markets to divine the probability ...
Fed Study Finds 9% Chance of Rates Hitting Zero in Medium Term
The Federal Reserve can’t assume its benchmark lending rate won’t return to zero at some point in the future, according to ...
Forget a ‘shadow’ Fed chair, here’s how the central bank could have two different leaders at once
Fed governors, including the chair, are nominated by the president and confirmed by the Senate. But members of the FOMC ...
Fed Chair Powell confirms tariff concerns prevented interest rate cuts so far this year
Fed Chair Jerome Powell said tariff concerns delayed interest rate cuts, stating the central bank would have likely reduced ...