Key Takeaways The Federal Reserve's two-day monetary policy meeting kicked off Tuesday and will conclude Wednesday.The ...

President Donald Trump has called on the Fed to lower rates, despite its political independence.

Stagflation is here — and the markets are finally responding. Growth is fizzling out, yet inflation is proving too stubborn ...

Chicago Fed President Austan Goolsbee defended the Fed's independence, stating that political pressure undermines its credibility. While Trump appointed Powell, legal experts suggest he cannot ...

Trump has ramped up the pressure on Fed Chair Powell to cut interest rates ... in an interview with CNBC on Monday, adding that political meddling with the central bank could result in hotter ...

History celebrates the central bankers that stand up to political pressure, not the ones that cave. Anyone who understands that would surely have huge reservations." Powell says he feels the Fed's ...

"And I would say the Fed really owes it to the American people ... "He's gonna have a lot of political pressure, you know, they are, political also, and I think there's a lot of political pressure ...

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell says the central bank will never be influenced by any political pressure. "Our independence is a matter of law," Powell said when asked about political threats ...

As stocks plunge and Trump pressures Powell for cuts, markets brace for impact—but Fed signals no rate move in May.

The weeks leading up to Wednesday’s policy decision by the Federal Reserve and subsequent press conference by Fed chair ...

Generally speaking, Fed independence is very widely understood ... We’re never going to be influenced by any political pressure. People can say whatever they want. That’s fine.

But the president continued ripping into the Fed chief later Thursday, in an Oval Office meeting, piling on political pressure for Powell to lower interest rates. Ahead of an expected rate ...