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In an emergency decision the rate was cut by half a percentage point on March 3, 2020, to 1–1.25% in response to the risk that the Coronavirus pandemic in the United States poses to the American economy. It was the first emergency cut since the financial crisis of 2007–08. [17] [18]
Mortgage rates fell sharply leading up to the Fed’s first rate cut, dropping all the way from 8.01 percent in Oct. 2023 to 6.20 percent as of Sept. 18, 2024, according to Bankrate’s national ...
The Federal Reserve on Wednesday announced its third consecutive interest rate cut of 2024, reducing its benchmark rate by 0.25 percentage points amid cooling inflation. Yet in a blow for ...
The move, the Fed's third rate cut of the year, reduces the central bank’s target rate to between 4.25% and 4.5%. In its statement announcing the cut, the Fed now projects just two interest rate ...
The Federal Reserve went big with its first interest rate cut since March of 2020. The Fed announced a half-point cut in the federal funds rate, dropping to 4.875%, down from a 23-year high of 5.50%.
The wait is over. After more than a year of will-they-or-won’t-they, the Federal Reserve on Sept. 18 announced the first cut to its benchmark federal funds rate since the early days of the COVID ...
The Fed has mostly tamed the inflation surge from 2022, which is why it was cutting the federal funds rate (the overnight interest rate it charges banks) at the end of 2024.
Thursday’s Fed rate cut reduced its benchmark rate to about 4.6%, down from a four-decade high of 5.3%. The Fed had kept its rate that high for more than a year to fight the worst inflation ...