But the Fed's recent rate cut, and any future rate cuts that come down the pike in the next year, should not influence your retirement savings strategy. Simply put, if you're still many years away from retirement, you should be putting the bulk of your savings into the stock market.

FedEx is the type of stock I always watch, waiting for a pullback. It directly benefits from a megatrend, a bull market in e-commerce sales.

Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago President Austan Goolsbee would like to freeze the U.S. economy right where it is today. With inflation closing in on a 2% annual rate, full employment, and gross-domestic-product growth in the neighborhood of 3% annually,

Promotions on CDs already aren't as good as they were in January, but some attractive yields of 4% or higher remain on one-year CDs.

The Federal Reserve’s monetary-easing campaign for 2024 may already be over as the strong labor report Friday underscores the stubborn resilience of the world’s largest economy, according to Wall Street veteran Ed Yardeni.

Friday’s job market figures in the US were very strong, suggesting that in fact there was no need for a large rate cut. This is the kind of macro climate we have seen in the mid and late 1990’s.

The Federal Reserve cut interest rates, then standard 30-year mortgage rates went up. It’s a warning that lower rates from here are not a foregone conclusion.

New Zealand’s central bank will cut interest rates by half a percentage point at each of its two remaining policy meetings this year as risks mount of inflation undershooting its 2% target, economists said.