WASHINGTON, DC - SEPTEMBER 18: Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell speaks during a news conference following the September meeting of the Federal Open Market Committee at the William McChesney ...

Learn how the Fed uses open market operations to influence money supply, adjust federal funds rate, and impact economic activity through securities transactions.

This is CNBC's live blog covering the Federal Open Market Committee meeting and Chair Jerome Powell's press conference. The Federal Reserve announced Wednesday a quarter percentage point, or 25 basis ...

WASHINGTON — The Federal Reserve's interest rate-setting body will announce its near-term plans Wednesday, with markets overwhelmingly anticipating that rates will be left unchanged in the face of ...

The 15th president and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, Dr. Raphael Bostic, announced his intention to retire on Feb. 28, 2026, opening his seat on a key committee that controls monetary ...

Federal Reserve officials largely agreed that the U.S. economy was expanding solidly, consumer spending has been resilient, the unemployment rate has held steady in recent months, and they generally ...