The Federal Reserve cut its influential fed funds rate in its September meeting. Follow along with our live coverage and analysis of the decision and press conference.

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 ...

It happens, but it's rare. A Fed "dot plot" day has come and gone with mortgage rates almost perfectly unchanged from the previous day. This speaks to the level of indecision not only in the market, ...

Richard Moody, chief economist at Regions Financial Corp., said the Fed’s interest-rate committee has become more divided in recent months. These divisions will be easy to spot in the Fed’s new ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

Harvard economist Roland Fryer explains how examining plantation records and market prices deepens our understanding of a devastating chapter in American history. The Federal Open Market Committee ...