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WASHINGTON—The Federal Reserve announced on Dec. 16 that it would keep U.S. interest rates near zero as the pandemic continues to pose “considerable risks” to the economy. Fed policymakers didn't predict any ...

WASHINGTON—The Federal Reserve announced on Sept. 16 that it will keep U.S. interest rates near zero until it ...

Commentary Members of the Federal Reserve board and presidents of the Fed’s regional banks collectively let the world ...

Commentary On Sept. 16, at 11:15 am PT/2:15 pm ET, the U.S. central bank is expected to make ...

WASHINGTON—The Federal Reserve unveiled on Aug. 27 a major policy change that tolerates higher inflation, a move that ...

WASHINGTON—The Federal Reserve on April 29 left interest rates near zero and repeated a vow to do what ...

The biggest emergency aid package in U.S. history is on the horizon, negative interest rates emerge in the United ...

U.S. stocks plummeted while safe-haven assets rallied on opening bell March 16, even as the Federal Reserve announced ...

The Federal Reserve has slashed its rates to near zero and announced a range of financial crisis management ...

The Bank of England slashed its key interest rate by half a percentage point to 0.25% on Wednesday.

President Donald Trump has renewed calls on the Federal Reserve to slash interest rates as the world's central ...

Federal Reserve Vice Chair Richard Clarida said on Tuesday that the central bank is "closely monitoring" the impact ...

Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell said in prepared remarks on Feb. 11 that persistently low interest rates limit ...

The Federal Reserve's interest rate-setting body decided Wednesday to keep the benchmark Federal Funds target rate unchanged within ...

Commentary At the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, last week, President Donald Trump again talked positively about ...

The Federal Reserve's monetary policy-setting body meets this week to take the pulse of the U.S. economy and ...

Three top Federal Reserve officials said in separate interviews on Jan. 3 that they have enough confidence in ...

The Federal Reserve has released the minutes of its December interest-rate setting meeting, showing meeting participants are concerned ...

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Commentary Earlier this month, the Brookings Institution asked 10 of their scholars, “What was the big story in ...

Commentary “As long as the government can print money, we’ll never be broke.” That’s the idea behind modern ...

Commentary According to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the Institute of International Finance (IIF), global debt has soared ...

Commentary Recent data indicates that the manufacturing sector is slowing, the service sector is growing slowly, the stock ...

Should the Federal Reserve hold back on trying to avoid a recession? Bill Dudley, a former Federal Reserve ...

With the Canadian economy in decent shape, the housing market is warming up again, and the recent sharp ...

WASHINGTON—The Federal Reserve cut interest rates on July 31 for the first time since 2008, citing concerns about ...

CHICAGO—An interest rate cut "may be warranted soon" given the rising risk to economic growth posed by global ...