On the eve of Wednesday’s Federal Reserve decision, traders, economists and central-bank watchers across Wall Street are fixated on a single, perplexing question: Will the median of 19 policymakers ...

The Federal Reserve is widely expected to keep interest rates on hold Wednesday, shifting focus to officials' economic and rate projections. Wall Street is focused on whether the Fed's dot plot will ...

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 ...

The Federal Reserve marked down its 2025 interest rate outlook while keeping the following year's projection steady, with a softening labor market outweighing concerns about inflation re-accelerating, ...

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 ...