Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell helped spark a wild week on Wall Street, but a signal that policy makers have put further interest-rate cuts on pause is looking like the right call after a closely watched inflation indicator and another round of budget brinkmanship on Capitol Hill.

Stock prices can move for a number of reasons, but growing earnings will almost always send the market higher over the long term. However, investors don't want to see the Fed slashing rates because of a weak economy. There is no apparent crisis on the ...

The Cboe Volatility Index, which trades under the ticker symbol VIX, was down 4% at slightly more than 15, according to FactSet data, at last check. The VIX was trading slightly below its 200-day moving average, based on FactSet data around midday Wednesday.

A quarter-point cut this month was the right move to avoid an overly hawkish stance that would threaten a serious economic slowdown, according to San Francisco Fed President Mary Daly.

The Federal Reserve’s third interest rate cut of the year will likely have consequences for debt, savings, auto loans, mortgages and other forms of borrowing by consumers and businesses

I would love to see a meaningful pullback in equities,’ says Talley Leger at The Wealth Consulting Group, given the two years without one

The U.S. Federal Reserve has issued their final rate cut of 2024, saying that what happens next year will depend on the actions and policies of the incoming Trump administration. Some at the reserve has signaled that the rate cuts will slow down as business leaders say inflation is not coming down enough.