Amidst a slight cooling in economic activity, inflation has been making decent progress towards the 2% target. Click to read.

The Federal Reserve is widely expected to hold interest rates steady next week, with investors focused on new central bank projections that will show how much weight policymakers are putting on recent soft data and how much risk they attach to unresolved trade and budget issues and an intensifying conflict in the Middle East.

Economists are broadly expecting the Federal Reserve to stand pat on interest rates at its upcoming meeting, but how the central bank proceeds beyond that is less clear. President Donald Trump has

President Donald Trump has repeatedly demanded the Federal Reserve slash interest rates. But Fed officials have stood pat, waiting to see how his administration’s sweeping policy changes affect the economy first.

Treasury yield jumped 6.9 basis points on Friday to $4.426, reversing a dip in the immediate aftermath of the attacks.

Consumer prices showed little sign of tariff-related increases for the third month in a row, defying expectations of a significant rise in inflation tied to ongoing U.S. trade wars.

Israel’s attacks on Iran’s nuclear facilities risk pushing back the timeline for Federal Reserve interest-rate cuts as the US central bank waits to assess any potential impact on inflation, economists said.

President Donald Trump cited new inflation data in continuing to pressure Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell to lower interest rates, calling him a "numbskull" but adding that he won't seek to remove him.

The economy has been sending mixed signals. While inflation is finally showing signs of cooling, undeniable cracks have surfaced in the labor market. Despite this uncertainty, pressure is rapidly intensifying on the central bank to slash interest rates when policymakers convene for the next FOMC meeting in mid-June.

Release of a series of inflation readings has eased concern that the tariffs imposed by Trump would translate quickly into higher prices

A cooler-than-expected inflation reading from May is not likely to shake the view of most Federal Reserve policymakers that rates should stay on hold until there is more clarity about the impact from President Trump's tariffs.

Vice President Vance ripped the Federal Reserve and cited President Trump’s criticism of the central bank after prices rose at a slower than expected rate in May. In a Wednesday social media