The Federal Reserve has battled a variety of economic troubles over the past 35 years. Between tech busts, a financial crisis ...

The Federal Reserve is cutting its benchmark interest rate as the U.S. economy faces headwinds, including a faltering labor ...

The experts we spoke with agree that Treasury yields have the greatest impact on mortgage rates because of the duration. The ...

Minutes from the Federal Reserve's latest policy meeting showed most policymakers supported interest rate cuts despite ...

The reason why it may not pay to rush into a new loan or refinance is twofold. First, the Fed’s most recent rate cut was fairly minor in the grand scheme of things, as a 25 basis point cut isn’t going ...

The effective federal funds rate - the interest banks charge each other for overnight loans to meet reserve requirements - ...

As policymakers weigh the merits of lower US borrowing costs after the Federal Reserve cut its key interest rate in September ...

In September, the Federal Reserve Open Market Committee delivered a long-anticipated cut to the federal funds rate. The ...

The Federal Reserve adjusts the federal funds interest rate to tackle certain economic conditions, such as inflation. On Sept. 17, the Fed cut the interest rate by 0.25 percentage points to a target ...

Currently, the average interest rate on a 30-year fixed mortgage is 6.34%, compared to 6.3% a week ago, according to the ...

Rates for certain financial products may change fairly quickly in response to a Fed rate cut, but credit card APRs aren’t guaranteed to follow suit, or may take a little longer to drop.

If you're awaiting interest rates to fall in the coming months, you probably won't be disappointed—but inflation could easily spoil the party.