Tag Archives: FOMC

The Committee will continue to assess additional information and its implications for monetary policy at future meetings with an inflationary goal of 2%.

For the tenth time, the Federal Reserve raised the nominal interest rate—this time by 25 basis points. Click through for comments from the Fed and other industry leaders.

The Federal Open Market Committee moved to raise the nominal interest rate by 25 points to a range of 4.50-4.75% at the end of its February meeting.

At the end of the Federal Open Market Committee’s November meeting, Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell indicated ongoing rate hikes will be necessary to tamp inflation down to the target rate of 2%.

On March 14-15, 2020, the Federal Reserve’s Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) held an emergency meeting in light of the then-blossoming pandemic to cut rates by a 100 ...

Three-quarters of a point. This is the amount the Federal Reserve chose to raise the nominal interest rate by citing the need to combat the highest rate of ...

Click through to learn more about the additional measures the FHFA and the U.S. Department of the Treasury are taking to improve liquidity and credit during the COVID-19 outbreak.

The National Association of Realtors will release its pending home sales index at 10 a.m. EST on Tuesday. February’s report indicated an 11-month high in home sales. New ...

While Fed Chair Jerome Powell has signaled a pause on rate hikes, here’s how the Fed’s new strategy could impact housing and the economy.

This week the Federal Housing Market Committee will have its last meeting of the year. See if a rate hike is on the horizon and what else is expected in The Week Ahead.