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President Donald Trump urged the central bank to cut rates. Fed Chair Jerome Powell is holding firm — but more and more colleagues don’t agree.
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On Wall Street, stocks of companies that could benefit most from lower interest rates helped lead the way. PulteGroup climbed ...
For the first time since 1993, two members of the central bank’s policy committee broke from the pack, but interest rates ...
The Federal Reserve 's upcoming meeting on Wednesday will be one for the history books. The Fed will either raise rates by three-quarters of a point for the third consecutive time, to 3%, or ...
The Fed announced it will leave interest rates unchanged in July, despite Trump and members of his cabinet pushing for a cut.
Donald Trump has been urging for interest rate cuts to lower borrowing costs, boost economic growth, and reduce the government’s interest payments on national debt.
NPR's A Martinez speaks with historian and legal scholar Peter Conti-Brown about Wednesday's vote of the Federal Reserve's rate-setting body, which saw two dissenting votes.
President Donald Trump’s visit to the Federal Reserve on July 24 marks the latest turn in his increasingly vitriolic campaign to pressure Fed Chair Jerome Powell into cutting interest rates or ...
Wall Street is pointed toward new heights before the opening bell Wednesday after new U.S. inflation data raised hopes that ...