The Fed’s dot plot is a chart that records each Fed official’s projection for the central bank’s key short-term interest rate ...

The Federal Reserve in 2025 is in the midst of a rate-cutting cycle, but its rapid pace of rate increases in 2022 and 2023 ...

When the Federal Reserve was created in 1913, the U.S. Congress established three primary objectives for its central bank: maximize employment, stabilize prices, and manage long-term interest rates.

Of the total number of commercial banks in operation as of mid-year 2003, 2,999 were members of the Federal Reserve System. As Chart 1 illustrates, although there were fewer member banks, these ...

With the coronavirus putting everyone's nerves on edge and the economy expected to take a hit, the Federal Reserve announced its own version of a coronavirus vaccine. It cut its target interest ...

The Federal Reserve's aggressive monetary policy tightening is prompting U.S. banks to slow the flow of credit and beef up cash levels after the panic in March when Silicon Valley Bank collapsed.