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US interest rates

  • Tuesday, 31 December, 2024
    Chris Giles on Central Banks
    Rising concerns about economic prospects for 2025 Premium content

    The year no longer appears likely to bring leading economies into a steady state

    A digital illustration of a rainbow in a pot of gold
  • Monday, 23 December, 2024
    Markets InsightMohamed El-Erian
    Fed’s flip-flops risk undermining US exceptionalism

    The central bank’s highly reactive policy approach of recent years amplifies financial volatility

    Jay Powell speaks at a press conference
  • Friday, 20 December, 2024
    The FT ViewCentral banks
    The global inflation battle is stalling and diverging

    Trump’s agenda and domestic uncertainty shroud the rate-cutting cycle

    Federal Reserve Board Chairman Jerome Powell
  • Thursday, 19 December, 2024
    US equities
    US long-term bond yields rise to highest level in six months

    Wall Street stocks steady after heaviest sell-off since August

    A trader works on the floor as news of the Federal Reserve rate cut decision shows on a TV at the New York Stock Exchange
  • Thursday, 19 December, 2024
    Global inflation
    Renewed inflation fears stalk central bankers as markets shudder

    Policymakers say they will only cut rates slowly in 2025 as they struggle with ‘last mile’ of cooling price growth

    A television station broadcasts Jay Powell, chair of the US Federal Reserve, on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange
  • Thursday, 19 December, 2024
    Global inflation
    Does the Fed know it’s Christmas time at all?

    JPow leaves a lump of coal for the degens

  • Thursday, 19 December, 2024
    Federal Reserve
    Trump’s White House plans loom large over Fed

    Tariff threats partly to blame for ‘striking’ increase in US central bank’s inflation forecasts, say economists

    Jay Powell delivers a press conference
  • Thursday, 19 December, 2024
    Markets InsightRichard Barwell
    A new year’s resolution for central bankers

    Policymakers should commit to publishing estimates of the ‘neutral’ level of interest rates

    Federal Reserve building in Washington
  • Thursday, 19 December, 2024
    Fed cuts rates but ‘hawkish’ forecast hits stocks and sends dollar jumping

    US currency hits strongest level in two years after central bank signals only half a percentage point of reductions in 2025

    The Federal Reserve building in Washington
  • Wednesday, 18 December, 2024
    Global Economy
    Inflation and interest rates tracker: see how your country compares

    Inflationary pressures are beginning to wane but not all central banks have taken action yet. See how this affects you

  • Wednesday, 18 December, 2024
    Never ever make predictions

    Especially about interest rates

  • Tuesday, 17 December, 2024
    Federal Reserve
    Investors on alert for ructions in US funding market

    Some fear that Fed’s quantitative tightening programme could trigger liquidity crunch similar to 2019

    The Federal Reserve building in Washington DC
  • Monday, 16 December, 2024
    News in-depth
    Fed charts more cautious path for rates as high prices persist

    US central bank poised for another cut as it weighs risks posed by stubborn inflation

    Fed building
  • Sunday, 15 December, 2024
    US inflation
    Economists trim Fed rate cut estimates on fear of Trump inflation surge

    Deregulation, tax cuts and tariffs stoke probability of high price growth, FT-Chicago Booth poll finds

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  • Sunday, 15 December, 2024
    Global Economy
    Will the Fed signal pause in rate cuts?

    Market Questions is the FT’s guide to the week ahead

    A Wall Street sign in front of the New York Stock Exchange
  • Wednesday, 11 December, 2024
    US inflation
    US inflation rose to 2.7% in November

    Figure matches Wall Street’s forecasts and clears way for Federal Reserve rate cut next week

    Line chart showing US inflation rate since 2021
  • Tuesday, 10 December, 2024
    Chris Giles on Central Banks
    Can robots replace humans in monetary policy? Premium content

    No, but machines are making some serious progress

    A cleaning robot beside a euro currency symbol in the atrium of the European Central Bank in Frankfurt, Germany
  • Monday, 9 December, 2024
    US quantitative easing
    Even slower for even longer

    QT content

  • Sunday, 8 December, 2024
    Eurozone interest rates
    How fast will the ECB lower interest rates?

    Market Questions is the FT’s guide to the week ahead

    A euro sculpture in front of the European Central Bank building in Frankfurt, Germany
  • Friday, 6 December, 2024
    US employment
    US economy added 227,000 jobs in November

    Rise in unemployment rate bolsters case for Federal Reserve rate cut this month

  • Wednesday, 4 December, 2024
    Federal Reserve
    Powell ‘not concerned’ over risks Trump will stifle Fed independence

    US central bank chief says his institution has ‘broad support’ on Capitol Hill

    Jay Powell, chairman of the US Federal Reserve, right, during the New York Times DealBook Summit at Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York
  • Monday, 2 December, 2024
    Federal Reserve
    Top Fed official warns progress on taming US inflation ‘may be stalling’

    Governor Christopher Waller says he still supports a December interest rate cut barring a surprise in the economic data

    Christopher Waller listens at an event
  • Tuesday, 26 November, 2024
    Fed minutes show officials backed gradual pace of rate cuts

    FOMC members take more optimistic stance on labour market outlook at November meeting

    The Federal Reserve building in Washington
  • Monday, 25 November, 2024
    News in-depthMonetary policy
    US and Europe diverge on monetary policy as Trump scrambles outlook

    Big central banks’ rates trajectories part ways as Eurozone wrestles with sluggish growth

    A montage of the ECB and Fed buildings and graph lines
  • Sunday, 24 November, 2024
    EU energy
    How ‘bumpy’ is US inflation?

    Market Questions is the FT’s guide to the week ahead

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