Central bank independence is being challenged in parts of the world and greater political influence could undermined banks' ...

Earlier last year, many economists optimistically predicted that interest rates would dip below 6% in early 2025. But since ...

The new voters on the Federal Reserve’s policy committee in 2025 are an official seen as one of the system’s most dovish, as ...

The Fed will likely pause its rate cuts this week. After that, uncertainty over Trump's tariff, immigration plans make ...

The Federal Reserve is expected to keep its key interest rate unchanged this week, despite Donald Trump's calls for cuts.

The president last week inserted himself into the debate over interest rates ahead of the central bank’s meeting this week.

Global economic policymakers had been braced for an economic firestorm from the new U.S. administration but instead got a ...

The Federal Reserve is nearly certain to keep its key interest rate unchanged at its policy meeting this week, just a few ...

"It's still a very strong Trump news cycle. The last thing Powell wants to do is to kind of paint a target on the Fed" by suggesting in any way that interest-rate policy "could interfere with the ...

"While recent research suggests that de jure central bank independence has never been more prevalent than it is today, there ...

The Federal Reserve’s first meeting of 2025 this week may throw a wrench into the stock-market rally just as investors worry ...

Jerome H. Powell has been a member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (FRB) since May 25, 2012, ...