Federal Reserve

As the Fed's policy-setting board meets, it's being confronted with tepid economic data and scary emerging-market issues.

The Fed guessing game – will they or won’t they – will occupy investors next week as central bankers decide whether to continue scaling back their long-running easy money policies. Plus earnings from Apple, Facebook and Amazon.  

The Federal Reserve has released new guidance aimed at eight of the largest U.S. banks designed to help prevent failures, improve stability and ward off another financial crisis.

Everyone’s debating whether Bernanke’s quantitative-easing experiment worked, but the truth is, we may be in deeper you-know-what than before.

The Fed has begun shifting its attention away from long-held concerns for a stubbornly high unemployment rate and toward an inexplicably low inflation rate.

As the U.S. jobless rate slides unexpectedly swiftly toward the Federal Reserve's rate-hike threshold, central bankers face a tough decision. Jobs Miss: U.S. Economy Only Adds 74K Payrolls in Dec.  |  Utilities Rally

Rating Bernanke: Ben Bernanke stewarded the economy through a nearly fatal meltdown and became one of the finance world's most divisive figures.

Janet Yellen will take her final step toward becoming the first woman to chair the U.S. Federal Reserve Board, and the December jobs report is out on Friday.

The playbook's written and the 2014 game plan in place, now Janet Yellen is poised to take the helm of the Federal Reserve.

Outgoing Fed chairman Ben Bernanke, who steered the economy from the brink of collapse, reflected on his two terms as America's top monetary economist.

The full Senate will vote Monday at about 5:30 p.m. EST on Janet Yellen’s appointment as chairman of the Federal Reserve, Reuters reported Thursday.

Inflation is showing signs it could accelerate in the United States, a top Federal Reserve policymaker said in comments that back the view that the central bank will hike interest rates again this year.

Dallas Federal Reserve President Robert Kaplan called on Thursday for the U.S. central bank to be patient when it comes to raising interest rates, citing the effect of tighter financial conditions on U.S. economic growth.

U.S. economic activity continued to expand in most districts from early January to late February but conditions varied considerably across regions and within sectors, the Federal Reserve said on Wednesday.

An influential Federal Reserve official on Tuesday said he sees downside risks to his U.S. economic outlook, an assessment that could flag a longer pause before the Fed's next interest-rate hike than he and his colleagues had earlier signaled.

Inflation is at the center of the economic universe because it will determine the trajectory of interest rates.

A key inflation gauge rose more than expected in January, perhaps supporting the Fed’s longstanding prediction that prices will gradually rise toward the central bank’s 2% target.

No Federal Reserve official has said it publicly but the Fed raising interest rates four times in 2016 has about as much chance as a snowball in hell.

Federal Reserve policymakers worried last month that tighter global financial conditions could hit the U.S. economy and considered changing their planned path of interest rate hikes in 2016.

Saying the largest U.S. banks should be regulated like nuclear power plants, the Minnesota Fed President Neel Kashkari warned of the lingering dangers of ‘too big to fail banks’ and urged Congress to consider breaking them up.