Interest rates for credit cards to mortgages jumped since the Fed began fighting inflation in 2022. Here's where experts think rates are headed.

In 2025, the US Federal Reserve said that interest rates could be cut by the end of this year, from the current range of 4.25%–4.50% to 3.50%–3.75%. While this will ease the pressure to borrow, it will also reduce the returns on ordinary investments such as savings accounts and bonds.

Jerome H. Powell, chair of the Federal Reserve, has made clear that pre-emptive interest rate cuts are not appropriate for the moment.

The Federal Reserve has been playing a waiting game for months. A lot has changed this week. And the Fed will probably just keep playing the waiting game.

President Donald Trump cited a softer-than-expected inflation report to again pressure Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell to lower interest rates.

U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday repeated his call for the Federal Reserve to lower interest rates, saying prices for gas, groceries and "practically everything else" are down. "No Inflation, and Prices of Gasoline,

The US President has said that the central bank should lower interest rates and that fed chair Gerome Powell's termination cannot come fast enough trump is again raising questions about whether he will seek to limit the fed's independence as new tensions flare in his contentious relationship with the central bank.

President Trump repeated his call for the Federal Reserve to cut interest rates after April's inflation report was cooler than expected.