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The U.S. central bank, to President Donald Trump's chagrin, will likely leave interest rates unchanged at a policy meeting this week, but that's not to say there won't be a vigorous debate, with one if not two Federal Reserve governors possibly casting a rare dissent in support of lower borrowing costs.
A U.S. District Court judge rejected a bid to force the Federal Reserve to open to the public a meeting on setting interest rates this week. The decision found that the Federal Open Market Committee is not a government agency subject to the federal "Sunshine Act" requiring open meetings.
Sweeping changes are coming to the world’s most powerful central bank, President Donald Trump and his top advisers have said — and they’re already starting to make good on that promise.
A federal judge in Washington denied a request by an investment firm led by an ally of President Donald Trump for public access to Tuesday’s Federal Open Market Committee meeting.
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Incoming U.S. inflation signals are offering the Federal Reserve little or no justification to resume interest rate cuts, and it's hard to see that changing before September.
The President’s campaign to bend the independent central bank to his will is straight out of the playbook of populist strongmen and will likely go on for years.
With gold prices high and a new Fed meeting slated for this week, here's what investors should be considering now.
The average rate on 30-year fixed home loans registered 6.74% for the week ending July 24, down just barely from 6.75% last week.
Federal Reserve policy, market momentum, and unprecedented peacetime fiscal spending create a powerful upward trend.