Fed meeting on interest rates; increase unlikely: ; With economy still struggling, danger of relapse remainsJeannine Aversa
This interest in “staying out of it” is one of the reasons why Fed officials moved their rate-setting meeting today to Thursday. Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meetings typically take place every six weeks and conclude on a Wednesday. It’s not the first time Fed officials have adju...
while risks to employment were seen as skewed to the downside. The Fed kept the federal funds rate unchanged at 4.25%-4.5% during its March 2025 meeting, extending the pause in its rate-cut cycle that began in January, in line with expectations. The Fed also raised their expectations for ...
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The FOMC voted unanimously at the meeting to take down its benchmark borrowing rate by a quarter percentage point to a target range of 4.5%-4.75%. Markets expect the Fed could cut again in December, though conviction has waned among concerns that President-electDonald Trump's plans for ta...
In addition, the central bank expects to begin reducing its holdings of U.S. Treasury securities and agency debt and agency mortgage-backed securities "at a coming meeting", according to the statement. The target range for the federal funds rate was previously set near zero in March 2020 to...
The central bank said in a statement after its latest meeting that it would maintain the federal funds rate in a range of 5.25% to 5.5%, the same level as it announced two meetings ago, in July. The Fed has now hiked its key short-term interest rate just once since May. The Fed do...
That slowdown in hiring was part of the reason why officials lowered interest rates by half a percentage point at their September rate-setting meeting — followed by two more consecutive cuts to borrowing costs. 1. The Fed’s decisions influence your borrowing costs...
“The progress toward 2% inflation has stalled out, and the Fed knows it,” said Greg McBride, chief financial analyst at Bankrate. Officials “gave no indication in their post-meeting statement that a resumption of rate cuts is likely at the next meeting in March,” he wrote in a note...
Based on the current economic data, financial markets are pricing in 97% odds that the Fed will hold the fed funds rate steady, having also done so at its last meeting.1That's the part we can feel pretty confident about: Virtually no one expects the Fed...