The Federal Reserve cut interest rates this past week by a quarter of a percentage point. But where rates go from here is a coin toss, at best, given that Fed members’ latest forecasts diverge widely.

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The committee's median forecast for the federal funds rate shows a decline to only 3.4% by the end of 2026, a mere 0.2 percentage point drop from the 3.6% projected for year-end 2025. While 20 bps is ...

Federal Reserve officials on Wednesday penciled in slightly steeper interest rate cuts this year and next, but there was a wide array of responses in the so-called dot plot, signaling uncertainty ...

The latest packet of economic projections published by the Federal Reserve on Wednesday left some investors scratching their heads. But if the Fed's rationale for cutting rates on Wednesday was really ...

The S&P 500 and Nasdaq closed modestly lower, with futures contracts reversing the losses, following the 0.25% interest rate reduction from the Federal Reserve, with the updated 'dot plot' only ...

Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell would be forgiven for thinking he was handed a third dimension to the central bank’s dual mandate of ensuring full employment with price stability. Stephen Miran ...

This important study uses innovative microfluidics-based single-cell imaging to monitor replicative lifespan, protein localization, and intracellular iron levels in aging yeast cells. The evidence for ...

This week, researchers identified a key driver of pancreatic cancer spread. Oral bacteria were linked to Parkinson's disease via the gut-brain axis. And scientists are advising California legislators ...