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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.
The Federal Funds Effective Rate reflects the cost of overnight borrowing between banks. Click here for more information on ...
The U.S. rate futures market has priced in an 88% chance of a 25-bp rate cut by the Fed this month. It has also priced in a ...
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.
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 ...
Stocks were lower on Friday as investors digested inflation data that matched expectations and looked ahead to the Labor Day ...
A look at the day ahead in European and global markets from Gregor Stuart Hunter Jittery bond markets found reasons for calm ...
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 ...
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