Some U.S. states limit or eliminate income taxes, but retirees and taxpayers face trade-offs that go far beyond one line on a ...

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The U.S. Federal Reserve’s latest interest rate cut of a quarter percentage point lowered the benchmark federal funds rate to ...

Some Federal Reserve officials who supported cutting a key interest rate earlier this month could have instead backed keeping ...

Meanwhile, President Donald Trump is demanding that the Federal Reserve lower interest rates to 1% or even lower so that his government can continue to run up the national debt more cheaply. The ...

It's no secret that Cleveland Fed President Beth Hammack has staked out a spot as perhaps the most hawkish member of the U.S. Federal Reserve since her appointment in 2024 after a career at Goldman ...

Traders in federal-funds futures were pricing in a potential interest-rate cut by the Federal Reserve as soon as April, as they weighed the latest U.S. jobs report. Fed-funds futures were indicating a ...

Forecasts vary for how many more times the Fed could cut interest rates in 2026. Some say one, two or even three more rate cuts ahead. Mortgage rates already have fallen as markets anticipated a Fed ...

The average 30-year fixed mortgage rate slightly to 6.39% this week, up from 6.37% the week before, according to U.S. News data. Mortgage refinancing rates decreased slightly for the 30-year term, ...

The Fed cut rates by 0.25% in December 2025 with a 9-3 vote split and signaled future cuts may pause. Early projections suggest the 2027 Social Security COLA could fall to 2.3% to 2.6% range. A 2.3% ...

On December 10, 2025, the Federal Reserve announced a quarter-percentage-point rate cut, bringing the benchmark rate to the 3.5%-3.75% range. This was both the final rate cut and the final Fed meeting ...