The Federal Reserve’s most important monetary policy tool is the Fed Funds Interest Rate target. By raising or lowering this benchmark, the Fed hopes to influence the cost of credit throughout the ...

The Federal Reserve’s big interest-rate cut last week is rippling through markets. With additional cuts expected in the months ahead, investors are looking to history to gauge what’s next. First, the ...

U.S. interest rates look too high, relative to inflation. A compelling argument can be made that U.S. interest rates are higher than they “should” be relative to inflation. The implication of that ...

Whether or not the central bank can avert a recession in time will make all the difference A Federal Reserve interest-rate cut on Wednesday is looking all but certain. How stocks might react as the ...

Subscribers to Chart of the Week received this commentary on Sunday, September 22. By Friday, the euphoria over the Federal Reserve’s interest rate cut -- and subsequent Thursday melt up -- had worn ...

One of the most notable bears on Wall Street finally flipped this week. Morgan Stanley's Mike Wilson raised his price target for the S&P 500 over the next 12 months to 5,400 from 4,500, a 20% jump ...

It wasn't that long ago when the average mortgage interest rate was comfortably over 7%. In August 2023, for example, the average rate on a conventional 30-year term was 7.31%, marking the highest ...