Interest Rates News & Analysis

What can — and can’t — the president force the Fed to do?

The market perked up late in the year when interest rates eased, but affordability challenges yielded the fewest transactions since 1995.

Via video address, the new U.S. president lets the world know he’s not thinking about small-scale changes.

Stocks hit a record high as the president called for lower interest rates, signed a crypto order, and addressed Davos’ global elites.

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Progress reducing the rise in consumer prices has stalled, with recent data coming in hotter than expected. By pressuring the Federal Reserve, Trump could reignite inflation.

President Donald Trump has pledged cheaper prices and lower interest rates, but an economy transformed by the pandemic will make those promises difficult to keep.Economic growth is solid, driven by healthy consumer spending. And budget deficits are hu…

Yields on U.S. government debt finished lower on Friday and were little changed for the week, as traders absorbed President Donald Trump’s views on interest rates and China.

President Trump’s comments to the Davos WEF yesterday contained much of the same as his recent pronouncements—tax cuts, lower oil prices and a demand that interest rates drop ‘immediately’.

The equity and credit markets rallied and the US yield curve bear steepened after the first executive orders and the salvo of announcements by President Trump on trade tariffs, tax cuts and the desire for lower oil prices and interest rates.

US president also says he would like to see interest rates to fall ‘a lot’

Donald Trump’s address in Davos yesterday included most of the threats related to implementing his America First vision – something markets are becoming accustomed to. Comments on oil prices and interest rates seemed to attract more headlines.

USD/CAD extends its losses for the second consecutive day, trading around 1.4330 during the early European hours on Friday.

As interest rates rose, banks charged more for credit cards and loans, but held rates paid on savings accounts.

US president tells World Economic Forum he will insist central banks lower interest rates ‘immediately’ afterwards

U.S. President Donald Trump delivered remarks Thursday in a video appearance at the World Economic Forum’s annual gathering in Davos, Switzerland.

Thoughts? Fed independence? This changes things quite a bit I think. If president can wrestle Fed to start dictating policy, I think this changes the game considerably. It has been knows that past presidents tried in a way to influence the FED but this…

The S&P 500 has hit a new all-time high thanks to deregulation hopes in the Trump era, a resilient economy, easing inflation and an upbeat start to the earnings season.

The 2-year Treasury note rallied modestly on Thursday, sending its yield lower for the first time in four sessions, after President Donald Trump displayed a willingness to pressure Federal Reserve officials into cutting interest rates.

The investment bank takes a look at the current state of the economy.

The company, backed by high-flying Silicon Valley investors like Andreessen Horowitz, had promised it would reinvent the rent-to-own model and make it more consumer friendly. High interest rates and mortgage rates thwarted those plans.

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“We cannot exclude negative interest rates,” Swiss National Bank (SNB) Chairman Martin Schlegel told Bloomberg TV at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos.

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