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Interest Rates Are About to Do Something They Haven't Done Since December 2024, and It Could Foreshadow a Surprising Move in the Stock Market
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Did the Fed cut interest rates Wednesday? No, but here's when they might
Interest rates for credit cards to mortgages have jumped since the Fed began fighting inflation in 2022. Here's where experts ...
Fed Decides Against Interest Rate Cut—But Powell Faces First Double Dissent In Decades
Bank of America indicated in a note that Powell would be in “no hurry” to cut rates in June, though disagreements among Fed ...
Pressure mounts on Jerome Powell as economist Mohamed El-Erian adds his voice to calls for the Fed chair to step down
Amid this pressure, Mohamed El-Erian is calling on Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell to call it quits — becoming one of the ...
Editorial: The Fed was right to say no on interest rates
For the moment, demand is adequate and unemployment is low. This makes the White House’s view — that tight money is ...
Fed holds interest rates steady, Chair Powell says Fed independence 'very important'
The Federal Reserve held interest rates steady on Wednesday, just days after President Donald Trump made an unusual visit to ...
The Fed’s foolish interest rate policy is stopping America’s economy from booming
Federal Reserve keeps interest rates high despite rise in unemployment and economic concerns. Decision unnecessarily ...
Powell Cites Inflation Risk as Fed Holds Interest Rates Steady
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said interest rates are in the right place to manage continued uncertainty around tariffs ...
Fed keeps rates unchanged — but two vote against Powell’s ‘wait-and-see’ approach
The central bank’s policy-setting Federal Open Market Committee maintained the benchmark rate between 4.25% and 4.5%, where ...
Labor department’s data upset may have sealed the deal for a Fed interest rate cut
Until Friday, analysts had little confidence that the U.S. Federal Reserve was about to deliver an interest rate cut, but ...
President Trump says Scott Bessent no longer a candidate in Federal Reserve chair search
President Donald Trump is weighing his options for the next Federal Reserve chair, with current chair Jerome Powell's term ...