Appointing a candidate trusted by markets to lead an independent central bank is the best path to lower borrowing costs.

Fed governors, including the chair, are nominated by the president and confirmed by the Senate. But members of the FOMC ...

Recent national and global surveys of business executives have underscored the U.S. Federal Reserve's (Fed) challenge in ...

Fed policy actions contradict its stated rule to focus on the mandate most out of balance, undermining credibility and ...

With new economic data pulling the Fed in both directions, surveys of U.S. chief financial officers from the Fed and of ...

On Monday, stocks slipped across the board after Trump announced a sweeping new round of tariffs on imports from South Korea, Japan, Malaysia, Kazakhstan, South Africa, Laos and Myanmar. According to ...

The Fed's balance sheet meanwhile has come down from a peak of close to $9 trillion to $6.7 trillion due to the Fed's quantitative tightening policy. All else being equal, if the Fed reduces the ...

Trump repeatedly has criticized Fed Chairman Jerome Powell for failing to mirror policy easing moves from central banks ...

By stubbornly refusing to lower interest rates despite ample data urging him to do so, Fed Chairman Jerome Powell is committing his third major policy blunder in six years. If he continues this ...

Is the Fed done bailing out the stock market? In this breakdown, Jerome Powell makes it clear the Fed won’t step in if ...

Bond markets have been volatile so far this year on uncertainty about tariffs and fiscal deficits. However, if the economy ...

The president's next pick for Federal Reserve chair, whom he pledged would be "somebody that wants to cut rates," is likely ...