The Federal Reserve cuts interest rates for first time since 2020
WEB1 day ago · Inflation is slowing — but so is the job market. The rate cut on Wednesday comes as the annual inflation rate has fallen sharply, to 2.5% last month, from a peak of 9.1% in June 2022. “We’re ...
Fed Announces Big Rate Cut - The New York Times
WEB1 day ago · The Federal Reserve cut interest rates on Wednesday by half a percentage point. Here are some takeaways from the decision and from remarks by the Fed chair, Jerome H. Powell. The Fed’s decision ...
Fed Cuts Interest Rates for First Time in Four Years - The New …
WEB2 days ago · Fed officials predicted that they would cut interest rates to 4.4 percent by the end of the year — much lower than the 5.1 percent they had been expecting in June, when they last released ...
Federal Reserve lowers interest rates by 0.50 percentage ... - CBS News
WEB1 day ago · The Fed said the cut lowers the federal funds rate into a range of 4.75% to 5%, down from its prior range of 5.25% to 5.5%, which had been its highest level in 23 years. The half-point move ...
The Fed is set to cut interest rates for the first time in 4 years
WEB1 day ago · Updated 3:35 AM PDT, September 18, 2024. WASHINGTON (AP) — Having all but tamed inflation, the Federal Reserve is poised to do something Wednesday it hasn’t done in more than four years: Cut its benchmark interest rate, a step that should lead to lower borrowing costs for consumers and businesses just weeks before the …
Federal Reserve goes big with half-point interest rate cut ... - NBC News
WEB1 day ago · Sept. 18, 2024, 2:00 AM PDT / Updated Sept. 18, 2024, 11:50 AM PDT. By Rob Wile. The Federal Reserve said Wednesday it was lowering its key interest rate by half a percentage point, an unusually ...
WATCH: Federal Reserve Chair Powell speaks after Fed announces interest …
WEB1 day ago · WATC H: Chicago Fed president expects multiple interest rate cuts amid economic ‘overcooling’. In a statement and in a news conference with Chair Jerome Powell, the Fed came closer than it has ...
Live updates: First Fed rate cut since Covid | CNN Business
WEB1 day ago · Mortgage rates were already falling ahead of the Federal Reserve’s expected interest rate cut. The average 30-year fixed mortgage rate fell to 6.20% last week , the lowest level since February 2023.
What the Fed’s Big Rate Cut Reveals About the Economy
WEB19 hours ago · Fed officials say they expect the prime lending rate to fall to roughly 3.4 percent by the end of next year, from about 4.9 percent today. But Powell played down the idea of another supersize cut ...
What to know as the Federal Reserve gets set to cut interest rates …
WEB2 days ago · The Federal Reserve is on the verge of cutting interest rates. Here's what to know. Fed Chair Jerome Powell prepares to deliver remarks at a conference on Nov. 8, 2023, in Washington, D.C. The Fed ...
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