The Latest Breaking News from US Federal Reserve

Bitcoin, Ethereum and Dogecoin appeared to be under pressure at press time, as the global cryptocurrency market cap inched down 0.05% to $1.7 trillion ahead of a key policy meeting of the U.S. Federal Reserve.

As of this past Friday, 17 of the 18 banks in the S&P 500 have reported results for the first quarter and not only have the quantitative results been supportive of strong fundamentals, but the tone from management teams has also been consistently positive about business trends.

The US dollar has been relatively strong compared to its foreign currency peers. Since the start of the year, the index is up by almost 8%. It closed at $103.21 on the 29th of April, the last trading day of the month.

Confidence in Biden, Federal Reserve Chariman Jerome Powell and Democratic leaders fell by double digits from the previous year

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Fears of economic slowdown triggered an April sell-off, further pushing the Dow Jones index into the correction territory. Moreover, the factors including poor earnings outlook, 40-year high inflation, the Fed's tighter monetary policy, ongoing geopolitical tensions, and other macroeconomic concerns have mainly weighed on the investors' sentiment. Amid the current…

The Federal Reserve is set to raise interest rates at its May meeting after it hiked rates for the first time since 2018 in March. The nation’s central bank is expected to lift the benchmark Fed funds rate by 0.5 percent, according to the CME FedWatch Tool.

The Federal Reserve is poised this week to accelerate its most drastic steps in three decades to attack inflation by making it costlier to borrow — for a car, a home, a business deal, a credit card purchase — all of which will compound Americans’ financial strains and likely weaken…

The Federal Reserve will likely soon learn what gymnasts already know: sticking a landing is hard.