The Fed's top priority remains reducing its securities portfolio to combat inflation risks, maintaining a disciplined quantitative tightening approach since March 2022. Despite political pressure to ...

The neutral rate—the interest rate at which monetary policy is neither accommodative nor restrictive—is a theoretical concept that cannot be directly observed, only estimated. The neutral rate is an ...

The Fed cut interest rates by a quarter point, as expected, but there were dissents in the final vote. If we look all together, we expect two rate cuts next year, which is one more than the Fed. A ...

The Federal Reserve delivered a third consecutive rate cut at its final policy meeting of 2025 this week amid growing divisions among policymakers, bringing the federal funds rate to a range of 3.50% ...