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If the Federal Reserve cuts rates, is that good news?
Home gains slow: Price appreciation averaged 3.3% a year after noteworthy Fed cuts, according to a federal home-price index. That’s down from 3.5% gains the year before and the 4.8% 40-year pace. But note that such coolings occurred only 38% of the time after big Fed cuts. So the central bank’s pull on prices is unclear.
Federal Reserve Chair highlights rate cut in new speech
U.S. Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell made alluded to some promising promises in his latest speech. Powell appeared Friday to open the door to the central bank’s first rate cut of President Donald Trump’s second term as the Federal Reserve chair indicated that current monetary policy may be restricting economic activity.
Fed on track for string of rate cuts as labor market weakens
Federal Reserve policymakers look set to kick off a series of interest rate cuts this month to shore up an increasingly fragile labor market, after a government report on Friday showed job growth nearly stalled and the unemployment rate rose in August.
The Federal Funds Effective Rate reflects the cost of overnight borrowing between banks. Click here for more information on ...
Federal Reserve Bank of New York President John Williams said growth has moderated due to trade and other policy ...
Wall Street giant Goldman Sachs predicted that gold prices could soar to the $5,000 mark on fears that President Trump is ...
The dismal August jobs report has now put a half-point September rate cut “in play,” according to some analysts, while others caution that inflation pressures from tariffs make a 50-basis-point cut ...
Investment-grade corporate borrowers tapped U.S. debt markets for nearly $70 billion so far this week, beating forecasts for ...
The Fed meets 8 times a year to set monetary policy that affects how Americans borrow and save. Here's when its rate-setting ...
Ratings, duration, yield to maturity and the yield curve are key metrics for investors to understand.
Stocks were lower on Friday as investors digested inflation data that matched expectations and looked ahead to the Labor Day ...
In an unprecedented move, US President Donald Trump has immediately removed Federal Reserve official Lisa Cook from her ...
President Trump said Monday he has fired Lisa Cook from the Federal Reserve's Board of Governors. Her attorney countered that ...
Payrolls in June were revised down by 27,000, from 14,000 to minus 13,000. Data for July was revised up by 6,000, from 73,000 to 79,000 The odds of a half-point cut at the September 17 meeting have ...
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