If you are trying to figure out whether now is the time to buy bonds, watch the White House more than the Federal Reserve. The benchmark 10-year Treasury yield has been rising toward 5%, Fed interest-rate cuts be damned.

Exchange-traded funds focused on the bond market slipped Wednesday, after the Federal Reserve decided to pause its interest-rate cutting cycle while waiting for new policies to be enacted under President Donald Trump.

The Commerce Department reported Thursday that gross domestic product — the economy's output of goods and services — expanded at a 2.3% annual rate from October through December. For the full year, the economy grew a healthy 2.8%, compared with 2.9% in 2023.

President Trump has said he will "demand" lower interest rates, raising questions about his ability to influence the Federal Reserve.

The Fed is likely to hold rates until June, while Trump will push for a rate cut in the nearer term Eight days after President Donald Trump's return to the White House, Federal Reserve officials ...

Eight days after President Donald Trump's return to the White House, Federal Reserve officials will gather in Washington to discuss the outlook for interest-rate policy, with a goal of simply ...

A federal judge blocked an effort by President Donald Trump's administration to pause federal grants and loans being dispersed across the nation on Tuesday. Nonprofit organizations are some of the recipients of those funds. Organizations in Oklahoma discussed what could happen if this effort moves forward in the future.

Hedge fund Elliott Management recently sent a letter to investors warning them away from crypto. It urged clients to remember that crypto is a speculative market, suggested that the White House has caused a massive bubble to form, and predicted that a huge crash is coming.

President Donald Trump’s most controversial Cabinet nominees — Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Tulsi Gabbard and Kash Patel — flooded the zone Thursday in back-to-back-to-back confirmation hearings that were like nothing the Senate has seen in modern memory.

President Trump has a lot to say about FOMC chairman Jerome Powell—and yet it seems he won't take his fight directly to the Fed.