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A former president of the Federal Reserve just came out in support for negative interest rates, in effect, forcing consumers and companies to “pay to save.”

Since no rate hike is expected, investors will instead be looking for the Fed to backtrack somewhat on its optimistic forecasts for 2016.

San Francisco Federal Reserve President John Williams said Monday he is unfazed by the weak economic data out of China that has spooked Wall Street, and sees three to five U.S. interest rate hikes this year as reasonable given the strength of the U.S. economy.

Federal Reserve forecasts pointing to four interest rate hikes in 2016 show what the U.S. central bank means when it says it anticipates raising rates at a "gradual pace," Richmond Fed President Jeffrey Lacker said on Friday.

A number of banks all announced increases to the so-called prime rate, a key reference rate for a variety of loans including credit-card debt. 

The celebration of the first rate hike in nearly a decade may be short lived for the big banks which now need to focus on another growing risk, cyber terrorism. 

On balance the U.S. economy is riding out the effects of a strong dollar fairly well, Federal Reserve Vice Chairman Stanley Fischer said Thursday.

Millennials, desperate to the leave the nest, may have a harder time finding a place to go... 

GE is oh so close to becoming a growth industrial stock after years of being a stagnant one, now that the industrial giant ahead of schedule in jettisoning the bulk of GE Capital.

The Federal Reserve should wait for "tangible evidence" of a pickup in U.S. inflation and hold short-term interest rates near zero into next year, Federal Reserve Governor Daniel Tarullo said.

Former Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke believes the housing industry is coming back and that's a good thing. 

Any rise in interest rates will be a slow cycle, so stay focused on the long-term and avoid short-term noise.

Relief washed over the bond market this week after the Federal Reserve decided to hold off on hiking interest rates.

Steve Forbes on the Fed and the U.S. economy.

David Stockman says the Federal Reserve is waging war against savers and retirees.

The Federal Reserve Board is expected to raise interest rates soon, but what does that really mean? Learn what affect the rate hike will have on your loans.

This month's Federal Reserve policy meeting could signal the end of an era.

Bond guru Bill Gross, who has long called for the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates, said on Wednesday that U.S. central bankers may have missed their window of opportunity to hike rates earlier this year and doing so now could create "self-inflicted" instability.

In an interview with FBN, Minneapolis Fed Chairman Narayana Kocherlakota said the central bank should maintain near-zero interest rates this year and consider the possibility of additional quantitative easing.

Bond king Bill Gross warns that low interest rates could have a negative impact on the U.S. economy.