The Federal Reserve is complicated and carries out numerous functions.

Monetary policy can be wielded as a tool to boost an economy around election time, which explains why politicians want to ...

Turkey's central bank hiked its key interest rate by 350 basis points to 46% on Thursday, in a surprise move that reversed an ...

Denmark's central bank cut its key interest rate by 25 basis points to 1.85% on Thursday, following the European Central Bank ...

The European Central Bank cut interest rates Thursday for the seventh time to counter worries about economic growth fueled by ...

Worries about economic growth fueled by U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariff onslaught will likely push the European Central ...

Kristalina Georgieva, the managing director of the International Monetary Fund, warned in a speech that protectionism erodes ...

Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell said in prepared remarks in Chicago that the central bank would wait for more data ...

Namibia's central bank held its main interest rate at 6.75% in a decision announced on Wednesday, citing heightened global ...

President Donald Trump on Thursday ratcheted up his criticism against Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, calling for his ...

President Donald Trump on Thursday again made clear his disdain for Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, going so far as to ...

President Trump's criticism of Fed's Powell was just the latest in a flurry of attacks on the Fed chief going over interest ...