federal interest rates

Can the Fed Keep Downplaying Inflation?

When a Federal Reserve committee meets Tuesday to consider the federal interest rate, it will likely revise its glum outlook into something brighter. But will it also acknowledge the U.S.'s growing inflation problem?

Traders Don't Expect Fed to Raise Interest Rate in 2011

A dismal jobs report Friday means federal interest rates are likely to stay low for some time. Interest-rate futures traders, who previously anticipated that the Fed would raise rates at the end of next year, now believe the Fed won't raise rates until mid-2012.