In a widely anticipated move earlier this week, the Federal Reserve has cut its overnight lending rate by 0.5%. This decision ...

Donald Trump has argued that the Fed would only cut interest rates close to the election to help his political opponents.

The Federal Reserve has cut its benchmark interest rate from its 23-year high, with consequences for debt, savings, auto ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Reserve on Wednesday cut its benchmark interest rate by an unusually large half-point, a ...

Also, the U.S. economy is on solid ground. The U.S. GDP grew 3% in the second quarter after growth slowed to 1.4% in the ...

Vice-president says ‘we all remember what they did to tear families apart’; former Trump and Bush officials among more than ...

NASA’s lunar-sample curator gives a tour of the vault where the agency will house the material it brings back from its manned ...

Below, CNBC Select explains how and why the Federal Reserve sets this rate, and how it affects the economy, as well as your own money. How does the Federal Reserve control the federal funds rate?

A federal judge said Tuesday that he won't take over decision making in former President Donald Trump's New York hush money case and block his upcoming criminal sentencing. Trump wanted federal ...

A long-awaited United States Federal Reserve interest rate cut could push the price of Bitcoin down — the opposite direction of many market participants’ expectations — and possibly cause it ...

Lower courts had ruled that the federal Health and Human Services Department’s decision to cut off Oklahoma from the funds did not violate federal law. The case stems from a dispute over state ...

Two new Senate bills threaten to reverse the progress made in fostering a flexible, efficient and satisfied federal workforce. The Federal Employee Return to Work Act and the Federal Employee ...