Fresh labor data underscores rising economic uncertainty. U.S. unemployment rose in November to the highest level since July 2021. The Federal Reserve cut interest rates three times in 2025 amid labor ...

TOKYO, Dec 16 (Reuters) - The Bank of Japan is set to raise interest rates on Friday to a three-decade high and pledge to keep hiking borrowing costs, closing the year with two rate hikes despite ...

Two of Australia’s top lenders said on Tuesday they expect the Reserve Bank will return to interest-rate increases in February in order to tackle persistent price pressures in the economy.

The Fed could have waited for delayed economic reports on inflation and employment, Goolsbee says Top officials at the Federal Reserve are not in agreement about how to help the economy. Two top ...

Mortgage rates have been largely unchanged. The Federal Reserve slashed interest rates a quarter of a percentage point this week, delivering its third rate cut since September. The policy brightened ...

The Fed cut interest rates by a quarter point, as expected, but there were dissents in the final vote. If we look all together, we expect two rate cuts next year, which is one more than the Fed. A ...

The FOMC cut the federal funds rate by a quarter-point, but that's unlikely to cause 30-year mortgage rates to fall by the same amount. The December rate cut might be advantageous for builders and ...

The Federal Reserve cut interest rates Wednesday in an unusually narrow vote, underscoring the divides among bank officials over the effect rate cuts will have on inflation and employment. The Federal ...

Dec. 10 (UPI) --The Federal Reserve slashed its benchmark interest rate in an effort to boost hiring despite rare public disagreement among policymakers. On Wednesday, the Federal Open Market ...

The Federal Reserve on Wednesday cut its influential interest rate for the third time this year, pointing to a job market that Chairman Jerome Powell said may be weaker than it appears. The cut of a ...

Forecasts vary for how many more times the Fed could cut interest rates in 2026. Some say one, two or even three more rate cuts ahead. Mortgage rates already have fallen as markets anticipated a Fed ...

Thanks to its latest decision on Wednesday – its final one for 2025 – the Federal Reserve has now reduced its key overnight lending rate by 1.75 percentage points since it began its rate-cutting cycle ...