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The Federal Reserve's interest-rate forecasts, set to be released next Wednesday, are likely to reflect a fed-funds rate that peaks at 5.1% next year and...

The Federal Reserve raised its target interest rate by three-quarters of a percentage point to a range of 3.00%-3.25% on Wednesday and signaled more large increases to come in new projections showing its policy rate rising to 4.40% by the end of this year

Despite many of the headlines the hike was

The Federal Reserve on Wednesday delivered its third straight 75-basis point interest rate hike in its campaign to drive borrowing costs high enough to bring down 40-year high inflation.

The Fed has plenty of other items on its docket that will catch Wall Street's attention.

The U.S. Federal Reserve's campaign against inflation might not be finished until you've lost money on bitcoin (BTC). The reason why goes back to the basics of central banking. The Fed does what it does with monetary policy (these days, raising in

Spot gold was down 0.4% at $1,719.49 per ounce by 09:35 a.m. ET (1335 GMT), after dropping to its lowest since August at $1,707.09 earlier in the session. US gold futures were down 0.6% at $1,714.60

Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell will testify in the House on Thursday as part of his semiannual report to Congress on the state of the ecnonomy -- which is being hampered by steep inflationary pressures.

The U.S. Federal Reserve's big interest rate hike on Wednesday -- and the expectation of more to come -- is aimed at bringing down 40-year high inflation topping 8% on an annual basis in recent months.

The Fed hiked its key interest rate by the most since 1994 to fight inflation. It forecast more big increases that will impact rates for consumers.

The Federal Open Market Committee released its decision on interest rates Wednesday, with markets expecting a three-quarter point hike.

Markets face another half-point rate hike this week and the prospect of sharper increases ahead when the Federal Reserve concludes its two-day policy-setting meeting Wednesday.

(Bloomberg) -- Former Federal Reserve Bank of New York President Bill Dudley said the U.S. central bank should stop sugarcoating its message on how high interest rates need to go -- and how much pain that will cause -- to get inflation under control.Most Read from BloombergDont Bother Paying Off

St Louis Fed President James Bullard on Wednesday said he supports a plan for the central bank to hike rates by 50 basis points in June and July.

Bitcoin undefined pushes towards $40,000, a psychological level, as the Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell speaks Wednesday after the central bank raised...

It's clear that the Biden administration and Fed are working together to create a controllable, traceable, programmable digital currency.

The president has asked the Treasury to examine the feasibility of a "digital dollar."

Goldman Sachs now expects the Fed to hike interest rates by 50 basis points in both May and June. Fed Chair Jerome Powell said Monday the central bank is ready

"The odds of a 50 bps rate hike are rising," analysts say.

Crypto analysts are divided on lingering market impact of recent Fed rate hike decisions.

As the race against Chinas development of its central bank digital currency (CBDC) known as the digital yuan continues, the U.S. Federal Reserve accomplished a feat in testing a design for a U.S. digital dollar that in one of two tests, managed to handle 1.7 million transactions per second.