The Fed

As the Fed tries to pump the brakes on inflation, it will get more expensive to borrow. Here’s how to prepare.

The personal consumption expenditures price index increased 5.4% from the same period in 2021, the biggest jump going back to April 1983.

Philadelphia Federal Reserve President Patrick Harker said Tuesday that he doesn’t think the U.S. is heading for recession.

The Federal Reserve’s efforts to fight inflation threaten to sink the U.S. into contraction, according to economist Mohamed El-Erian.

Stocks rallied Thursday, clawing back the previous session’s losses.

The inflation hawks, some of them housed at the Federal Reserve, may well be right for all the wrong reasons. That does not count as being correct.

Traders are betting Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell’s tough inflation talk means the central bank is willing to speed up the pace of interest rate hikes.

Just as many central banks had set their sights on normalizing monetary policy as economies emerged from the pandemic, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine threw them another curveball.

Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell vowed tough action on inflation, which he said jeopardizes an otherwise strong recovery.

Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell is slated to speak Monday at the National Association for Business Economics annual conference in Washington, D.C.

With the Fed’s first rate hike out of the way, market pros are now debating whether the market can continue the upswing it started in the past week.

Fed Governor Christopher Waller said the central bank may need to enact one or more 50 basis point interest rate hikes to tame inflation.

Bullard said in a statement that he would like to see the central bank’s benchmark interest rate boosted above 3% from the near-0% level where it had stood.

The Fed’s recent interest rate hike will likely cause private student loans to get pricier, and for some, now is a good time to think about refinancing.

The Fed forecast an aggressive campaign of interest rate hikes to fight inflation, but some wonder if the central bank can succeed without harming the economy.

The S&P 500 notched a third day of gains as investors digested the latest news out of Ukraine.

Bonds sold off and stocks seesawed in volatile trading after the Fed released a forecast for a slightly more aggressive series of rate hikes than expected.

This is a comparison of Wednesday’s Federal Open Market Committee statement with the one issued after the Fed’s previous policymaking meeting on Jan. 26

The Federal Reserve released its updated dot plot and latest projections for economic growth and inflation on Wednesday.

Market interest rates and bond prices typically move in opposite directions. Here’s how the Federal Reserve’s rate hike may affect your portfolio.