The meeting will mark the first since Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell confirmed he is under investigation by the Department of Justice.

Competition among smaller banks and credit unions has pushed the leading APY up to 4.50%

Bear flag breakdowns typically result in the price falling by as much as the previous downtrend’s height. Applying this technical rule on the BTC/USD chart brings $70,000 or nearby levels as the next downside targets.

Four times per year, the Fed releases its projection materials along with the dot plot, a chart showing where up to 19 Fed officials expect interest rates to be in the years ahead. In this chart, each column is a year, and each dot is one Fed participant’s projection for where the fed funds rate should be at year's end.

Long-term Treasuries fell, pushing the 30-year bond’s yield to the highest level since early September, as the implications of this week’s Federal Reserve interest-rate cut and policy stance filtered into the market. The 30-year bond’s yield closed ...

Dollar gains ahead of Trump’s Fed Chair announcement. Kevin Warsh’s moderate hawkish stance could drive greenback higher, analysts say.

The Federal Reserve concluded its last meeting of the year with a widely anticipated 25 basis point cut to the federal funds rate (FFR), bringing it to a range of 3.50-3.75%. Inflation has proven sticky over the past few years, never quite reaching that 2% ...

Fed rate cuts: Are they good or bad for home buyers? You can count on it: When the Federal Reserve changes its interest rate, news headlines about mortgage rates will follow. This cycle unfolds up to eight times a year, so many home shoppers get the idea ...

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