The S&P 500 has performed well over the past year, in part because of expectations that the Federal Reserve will continue cutting interest rates. The futures market currently puts the probability ...

If the Federal Reserve is politicized and weakened, the winners will be large financial institutions and the losers will be all of us. Unfortunately, that’s already happening before President ...

Critics also argue the Federal Reserve Bank violates the Constitution by being too closely tied to the private sector, and it lacks transparency and accountability. Some people are opposed to the ...

The Federal Reserve meets for its first two-day rate-setting session of 2025 on Tuesday, January 28, and Wednesday, January 29, 2025. At the end of its Federal Open Market Committee session on ...

The U.S. job market again defied an anticipated slowdown, with firms adding more than a quarter of a million jobs in the last full month of Joe Biden's presidency and leaving Federal Reserve ...

The Federal Reserve sets the federal funds target rate, also known as the fed funds rate, which is the interest rate at which commercial banks lend to each other overnight. Below, CNBC Select ...

Stocks have soared in 2024, but a new presidential administration, a potential pivot by the Federal Reserve and shifting consumer sentiment could change market dynamics in 2025.

A federal judge in Kentucky blocked the Biden administration’s attempt to redefine sex in Title IX as "gender identity," striking down the change nationwide. The U.S. District Court Eastern ...

Not using banking services can be expensive and time-consuming. Researchers at the Federal Reserve have referred to being unbanked as “financial exclusion.” Access to banking services can ...

PORT SUDAN - A move by the Sudanese government to introduce new banknotes and compel people to open bank accounts has boosted bank deposits and with them the army's war effort, finance minister ...

LEAVENWORTH, Kansas (KMBC) — Two wives want to share how their husbands and other inmates are being treated inside the penitentiary and camp Federal Correctional Institution Leavenworth.

SUFFOLK COUNTY, New York (WABC) — Officials in Suffolk County are filing a legal challenge against the federal government for holding the county responsible for the cost of prisoners in the U.S ...