Hostilities in the Middle East caused some angst in the equity markets, but not as much as one might have expected. The major indexes were only down between -1% and -2% for the week as shown in the ...

It was a down week for most of the major indexes with only the Nasdaq managing to keep its head slightly above water. It’s likely that the back-up in interest rates played a major role with the ...

The Federal Reserve affirmed on Wednesday that its next key federal funds rate hikes will depend on incoming data. In turn, economists and housing industry experts have now turned their attention ...

Further changes to the Federal Reserve's short-term interest rate will need to be "finely tuned" to incoming data given the ...

The Federal Reserve said in today’s statement: “In support of its goals, the Committee decided to lower the target range for the federal funds rate by 1/4 percentage point to 4-1/4 to 4-1/2 percent.