The latest Federal Reserve meeting made news, but it was the largely as-expected kind. In its latest statement, released on Nov. 3, the Federal Open Market Committee ...

The Federal Reserve’s main tool for stimulating the economy is to lower interest rates, and the central bank lowered them aggressively during the recession – so much so that its target interest rate ...

Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell is readying markets for an announcement of a slowdown in its asset purchases, suggesting that the U.S. economic recovery looks fit enough to sustain reduced Fed ...

The Federal Reserve is edging closer to unwinding some of the ultra-easy policy measures put in place during the COVID-19 pandemic in order to keep the U.S. economy afloat amid an unexpectedly large ...

The Federal Reserve announced in its Federal Open Market Committee meeting Wednesday, Dec. 15, that it will begin tapering bond purchases in an attempt to curb rapid inflation. But what is bond ...

Simplistically, tapering is the ending of economic stimulus policies. It's been hard for Americans to avoid headlines and statements about "tapering" in recent months, as economists and policymakers ...