The biggest gains, however, tend to come after the Fed begins cutting rates following a stock market panic. Following the first Fed rate cut in March 2020 due to the COVID pandemic, the S&P 500 was up ...

Futures for the Dow Jones Industrial Average slipped 18 points, effectively trading flat, and S&P 500 futures ticked down 0.1%. Both gauges had rallied to new highs on Thursday as investors mulled the ...

By the end of 2024, interest rates will fall nearly another half of a percentage point from their current level of between ...

The Federal Reserve has at last cut interest rates but our columnist points out a host of concerns that could weigh on ...

Despite these challenges, the latest report offers some optimism. The four-week average of claims, which smooths out weekly ...

Over the past few years, elevated mortgage rates and sky-high housing prices have contributed to a lack of home affordability ...

European markets have opened lower after Asian stocks surged, as a rally driven by the Federal Reserve’s big cut to interest rates fades ...

Jay Powell argued this week that the Fed is not 'behind' as it starts rate cuts. His main task in the coming months is to ...

Borrowing costs on 15-year fixed-rate mortgages, popular with homeowners seeking to refinance their home loan to a lower rate, also eased this week with the average rate falling from 5.27% to 5.15%. A ...

Lower interest rates will soften the prices consumers pay for debt — but people may not see an impact on their payments for a ...

Lower interest rates encourage borrowing, which stimulates economic growth ... It's also possible that the same sequence of events could follow the Fed's most recent rate cut. Here's the bottom line: ...

Financial advisors say the rate cut proves the Fed thinks we’re at a point where we can safely lower interest rates to ...