Live updates: First Fed rate cut since Covid | CNN Business
WEB3 days ago · Mortgage rates have already begun steadily falling in anticipation of the Fed’s expected Wednesday cut. According to Freddie Mac, the average 30-year fixed mortgage rate fell to 6.20% last week ...
Federal Reserve lowers interest rates by 0.50 percentage ... - CBS News
WEB3 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 ...
Federal Reserve goes big with half-point interest rate cut ... - NBC News
WEB3 days ago · The federal funds rate, which acts as a benchmark for borrowing rates in the rest of the economy, will now move down to about 4.8%, the lowest level since March 2023. The central bank also said it ...
Fed Announces Big Rate Cut - The New York Times
WEB4 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 ...
Fed’s jumbo cut decision wasn’t unanimous - CNN
WEB1 day ago · Still, even with minutes to go before the Fed’s announcement, many top economists at financial companies still believed Powell’s ever-cautious Fed would opt for a quarter-point cut.
The Fed Makes a Large Rate Cut and Forecasts More to Come
WEB4 days ago · 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 last released ...
What you should know after the Fed cut rates | AP News
WEB3 days ago · NEW YORK (AP) — The Federal Reserve has cut its benchmark interest rate from its 23-year high, with consequences for debt, savings, auto loans, mortgages and other forms of borrowing by consumers and businesses.. On Wednesday, the Fed announced that it reduced its key rate by an unusually large half-percentage point, to between 4.75 and 5 percent, the first rate cut in more than four years.
What’s Next for Rate Cuts? The Fed Is Watching Jobs and Prices.
WEB1 day ago · The Fed Is Watching Jobs and Prices. A Federal Reserve official predicted quarter point rate cuts if data looked ‘fine’. But he also set out a scenario for a pause — or faster reductions ...
Fed cuts interest rates by half-point, first trim in years - The ...
WEB3 days ago · September 18, 2024 at 6:00 a.m. EDT. The Federal Reserve is poised to cut interest rates Wednesday for the first time since the pandemic’s early days, turning the page on an era of dangerously ...
WATCH: Federal Reserve Chair Powell speaks after Fed …
WEB3 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 ...
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