The Fed’s benchmark interest rate tends to influence borrowing rates across the economy, including for mortgages, auto loans and credit cards. Other factors, though, can also push up longer-term rates ...

Markets were muted ahead of an afternoon speech by Powell. Investors were right to be guarded, since he leaned more hawkish ...

The stock market broadly has been rising faster than corporate profits, which raises the volume on criticism from skeptics ...

Andriana Kugler, a member of the Fed’s board, says economic research shows that an independent central bank typically does a ...

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell spoke in Dallas about the outlook of the U.S. economy and the future of interest rate ...

Two senior Federal Reserve officials praised the US central bank's independence on Thursday, amid concerns that ...

Federal Reserve Chair Jay Powell said the central bank does not need to be 'in a hurry' to lower interest rates, and that the ...

The recent performance of the US economy has been "the best of any major economy in the world," Federal Reserve Chair Jerome ...

Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell earned his largest round of applause from his Dallas audience when he rebuffed a ...

In his remarks on Thursday, Powell said Fed officials simply need more policy clarity before they can start updating economic ...

Those ever-present TV drug ads showing patients hiking, biking, or enjoying a day at the beach could soon have a different ...

A strong economy is giving Federal Reserve officials room to move “carefully” as they lower interest rates, the central bank ...