Borrowing rates have already fallen in anticipation of a deeper cut in rates. The average 30-year mortgage rate dropped to ...

Speaking last month in Jackson Hole, Jay Powell was explicit about what he considered the Federal Reserve’s mission as the US ...

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A seal had a lucky day after nearly becoming a humpback whale's lunch. The incredible moment was caught on camera.

The Fed just lowered the target range of its federal funds rate by 50 basis points. The Federal Reserve's much-anticipated ...

A photograph by a naturalist captured a seemingly bewildered seal in the mouth of a humpback whale after the giant marine ...

Having all but tamed inflation, the Federal Reserve is poised to do something Wednesday it hasn’t done in more than four ...

The U.S. central bank on Wednesday kicked off an anticipated series of interest rate cuts with a larger-than-usual ...

U.S. stock index futures are sharply higher on Thursday as global investors cheer the Federal Reserve's 50 basis-point interest rate cut. As MarketWatch [pointed out on Wednesday]( ...

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell endorsed an overhaul of the contentious Basel bank capital rules on Wednesday, but said ...

A modest effort to enforce capital requirements on financial institutions has fallen by the wayside. We will all pay for this surrender in the next too-big-to-fail bailout.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Reserve on Wednesday cut its benchmark interest rate by an unusually large half-point, a ...