The Federal Reserve made a 0.50 percentage point cut, double the typical reduction. Here's what's behind the decision.

Stocks jumped Thursday morning as investors cheered the Federal Reserve’s eye-popping half-point interest rate cut.

The S&P 500 and the Dow vaulted to record highs one day after the rate cut. Stocks rallied to record highs this week in the ...

Industrials push above 42000 in delayed response to Fed lowering rates; tech shares and risky assets rise.

Prominent Republicans have questioned the timing and size of the Fed rate cut ahead of the November presidential election.

The Federal Reserve’s long-awaited interest rate cut is finally here. On Wednesday, it lowered the federal funds rate — which ...

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said the Federal Reserve’s decision to lower its benchmark interest rate by a ...

After the Fed’s pivotal interest rate cut this week, policymakers face the question of how much further to reduce borrowing ...

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell is known for providing clear signals about the central bank’s next interest rate move in ...

Mortgage rates closely track the yield on a 10-year Treasury bond, or the amount paid to a bondholder annually. In the ...

JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon suggests the half-point interest-rate cut is “a minor thing” that Wall Street — not Main ...

This week, the Federal Reserve cut its influential federal fund rates by 50 basis points. That could shake up the dynamic of ...