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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 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 Federal Reserve is expected to announce Wednesday its first interest rate cut since 2020. How big that cut will be remains to be seen, but it is widely expected to target a 0.25% reduction ...
Announced biggest rate hike since 1994 to continue combat inflation. George dissented, preferring a 50-basis-point upward adjustment to the policy rate. Official statement: May 4, 2022 0.75%–1.00% 1.00% 9–0 Announced biggest rate hike since May 2000 to combat inflation. Official statement: March 16, 2022 0.25%–0.50% 0.50% 8–1
The Fed cut its federal funds rate — the interest rate banks charge each other for short-term loans — by 0.25 percentage points, lowered the rate to a range of 4.25% to 4.5%, down from its ...
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 ...
The cut, likely to be announced Wednesday afternoon, is seen as between one-fourth and one-half of 1 percentage point. The Fed began increasing its target rate as the pace of inflation began to ...
Mortgage interest rates have hit their lowest level since February 2023, while auto loan rates are also falling. A 0.5% cut would more directly affect rates tied to the fed funds rate, including ...