The Federal Reserve on Wednesday cut interest rates for the first time in 2025 and released policymakers' quarterly forecast of economic conditions that shows the potential outlook for further rate ...

The committee's median forecast for the federal funds rate shows a decline to only 3.4% by the end of 2026, a mere 0.2 percentage point drop from the 3.6% projected for year-end 2025. While 20 bps is ...

It’s almost certainly the most closely scrutinized scatter chart in financial markets. Every three months since January 2012, the Federal Reserve has sent analysts scurrying by updating its “dot plot, ...

All eyes are on tonight's Fed meeting, where a 25bp rate cut is widely expected. The dollar has been selling off ahead of this event, but there are a few risks. We could see short-dated US rates back ...

1 Department of Statistics and Mathematics, Bindura University of Science Education, Bindura, Zimbabwe 2 Department of Mathematics, University of Botswana, Gaborone, Botswana This study develops a ...

Conservative MP Mark Francois has launched a scathing attack on "Remainer" Sir Keir Starmer, accusing the Prime Minister of attempting to rejoin the European Union through a "stealth" process without ...

Powell said Trump’s tariffs will raise prices for US consumers as businesses pass on the costs. The Fed held interest rates steady at 4.25% to 4.5% and still expects two cuts this year. Short-term ...

Wall Street is obsessing over whether the Fed will project one or two rate cuts in 2025 in its next dot plot. Fed officials admit the dot plot creates false certainty despite being built on shaky ...

President Trump expressed confidence that he could remove Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell from his position. WSJ’s Nick Timiraos and former Fed Vice Chairman Richard Clarida explain how much ...

Bonds lost some ground after this morning's economic data, arguably in response to the Retail Sales control group beating its forecast. Higher-than-expected import prices could also have played a ...