With inflation continuing to cool, the Federal Reserve is set to cut interest rates for a second time this year.

Policymakers’ calculation of where interest rates should be hangs on a data-dependent economic theory full of uncertainties.

A neutral Fed policy rate – where borrowing costs neither stimulate nor restrict economic growth – is probably in the 3 per cent to 3.5 per cent range, he said. Inflation, currently at 2.2 per cent by ...

A neutral Fed policy rate — where borrowing costs neither stimulate nor restrict economic growth — is probably in the 3% to 3.5% range, he said. Inflation, currently at 2.2% by the Fed's preferred ...

The so-called neutral rate of interest — or “r star,” as economists call it — is the standard against which the Federal Reserve’s interest-rate policy is judged as either “tight” or ...

New York Fed President John Williams, in a Financial Times interview, suggested gradual rate reductions over time following the significant half-percentage-point cut in September. Fed Governor ...

Stacy Francis is the President and CEO of Francis Financial & founder of Savvy Ladies™, empowering women to achieve financial independence. The Federal Reserve recently lowered interest rates by ...

MOST Asian markets were mixed on Friday (Oct 11) as investors digested disappointing US inflation data that further dampened expectations for another bumper interest rate ... US Federal Reserve ...

Delmaine Donson / Getty Images While the Fed rate cuts don’t directly affect mortgage rates, changes to the federal funds rate and mortgage rates are both responses to related economic indicators.

On Thursday, Federal Reserve Bank of New York President John Williams said he expects policymakers to make more rate cuts as the ... of monetary policy to a more neutral setting over time ...

At an event at Binghamton University, New York Fed President John Williams ... neutral setting over time." Line graph showing various measures of inflation and the Federal Reserve's policy rate ...