Interest Rates

Traders at the New York Stock Exchange listen as Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell is seen on a video screen giving a news conference from Washington after the Fed announced a rate increase, Wednesday, Dec. 19, 2018.

Beltway Confidential

The Fed made the right call with rate hikes

Tiana Lowe Doescher · December 19, 2018 11:18 pm

A television screen at the New York Stock Exchange shows that the Federal Reserve announced a rate increase, Wednesday, Dec. 19, 2018.

Beltway Confidential

The Fed didn’t help the economy today

Quin Hillyer · December 19, 2018 10:17 pm

Traders with Livermore Securities at the New York Stock Exchange follow the news from the Federal Reserve Board of a rate increase, Wednesday, Dec. 19, 2018.

Wall Street craters on Federal Reserve’s decision to hike interest rates

Joe Williams · December 19, 2018 9:17 pm

Federal Reserve Board Chair Jerome Powell testifies before the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee, on "The Semiannual Monetary Policy Report to the Congress" on Capitol Hill, Tuesday, July 17, 2018.

Fed spurns Trump after raising rates: Politics plays ‘no role whatsoever’ in policymaking

Colin Wilhelm · December 19, 2018 8:43 pm

Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell waits to address the Federal Reserve Board's 15th annual College Fed Challenge Finals in Washington, Thursday, Nov. 29, 2018.

Beltway Confidential

The Federal Reserve is out of reserves

Nicole Gelinas · December 19, 2018 7:37 pm

Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell straightens his tie during a Federal Reserve Board meeting in D.C.

Federal Reserve raises rates, over Trump protests, but signals it will slow rate hikes in 2019

Colin Wilhelm · December 19, 2018 7:00 pm

The largest point loss in history remains Sept. 29, 2008, when the market dropped 778 points. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

Stock markets tumble as investors fret over the Fed and China trade

Joe Williams · December 17, 2018 9:16 pm

Trump warns Fed against rate hike while the world is ‘blowing up around us’

Katelyn Caralle · December 17, 2018 2:03 pm

President Trump walks with Federal Reserve board member Jerome Powell before announcing him as his nominee for the next chair of the Federal Reserve in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, Thursday, Nov. 2, 2017.

Beltway Confidential

The Fed and Trump can ward off panic

Quin Hillyer · December 7, 2018 6:35 pm

Trump’s Gut

Michael Ramirez · November 30, 2018 8:06 am

Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell waits to address the Federal Reserve Board's 15th annual College Fed Challenge Finals in Washington, Thursday, Nov. 29, 2018.

Fed officials are poised for another rate hike in December, meeting notes suggest

Joseph Lawler · November 29, 2018 7:07 pm

Federal Reserve Board Chair Jerome Powell testifies before the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee, on "The Semiannual Monetary Policy Report to the Congress" on Capitol Hill, Tuesday, July 17, 2018.

Jerome Powell signals Fed could slow rate hikes

Colin Wilhelm · November 28, 2018 5:27 pm