Federal Reserve lowers interest rates by 0.50 percentage ... - CBS News
WEB2 days 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 ...
Fed Cuts Interest Rates for First Time in Four Years - The New …
WEB3 days ago · By Karl Russell. 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 ...
Fed Announces Big Rate Cut - The New York Times
WEB3 days 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 ...
Federal Reserve goes big with half-point interest rate cut ... - NBC News
WEB2 days 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 …
WEB2 days 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 ...
Stocks Hit Record High a Day After Fed’s Big Interest Rate Cut
WEB1 day ago · The S&P 500 rose 1.7 percent on Thursday, rallying a day after the Federal Reserve cut interest rates by half a percentage point. The S&P 500 plotted weekly The vertical scale is adjusted to show ...
The Federal Reserve cuts interest rates for first time since 2020
WEB2 days 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 unleashes another big rate hike in bid to curb inflation
WEBJul 27, 2022 · The Federal Reserve on Wednesday raised its benchmark interest rate by a hefty three-quarters of a point for a second straight time in its most aggressive drive in more than three decades to tame high inflation.
Fed Meeting Live Updates: Interest Rates Raised 0.75 Percentage …
WEBJun 15, 2022 · Officials agreed to a 0.75-percentage-point rate rise at their two-day policy meeting that concluded Wednesday, which will increase the Fed’s benchmark federal-funds rate to a range between 1.5%...
The Fed hikes interest rates by a quarter point and hints at ... - CNN
WEBJul 26, 2023 · The Federal Reserve raised its benchmark lending rate by a quarter point Wednesday, lifting interest rates to their highest level in 22 years.