Kennedy did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Kristina Hooper, chief global market strategist at Invesco, said the U.S. economy looks set to avert a recession as the Fed starts easing monetary policy just ahead of the U.S. election, and she ...

See Interest Rates Over the Last 100 Years. Find out how history affects today's rates and what it means for you.

In 1994, the Fed raised rates aggressively to tackle inflationary pressures. By 1995, the labor market was clearly cooling. Then, as now, there weren’t signs of an imminent recession. But in May 1995 ...

The other hope is that Fed Chair Powell can emulate Alan Greenspan in pulling off a rare 1995-style soft landing and help the U.S. economy to dodge a recession. The Fed is also expected to keep the ...

(THE CONVERSATION) In a widely anticipated move, the Federal Reserve announced on Sept. 18, 2024, that it was cutting its benchmark interest rate by half a percentage point to a range of 4.75% to 5% – ...

The Fed cut interest rates by 50 bps in September, anticipating no further meetings until November. Check out my ...

Donald Trump howls that the interest rate cut was political. No, says the former chair of the Council of Economic Advisers. It’s what the economy needs.

The US Federal Reserve wants to get to neutral quickly as it increasingly prioritises potential jobs weakness at a time when ...

Would Fed chair Jerome Powell opt for a measured, quarter percentage point change in rates, as he had for the last year? Or ...

The Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) wrapped up its regularly scheduled two-day policy meeting by cutting the short-term ...

The most rates have risen in an election year prior to the day ballots were cast is 2.56 percentage points. That happened in ...