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Federal Reserve is set to cut rates again while facing a hazy post-election outlook
WASHINGTON (AP) — No one knows how Tuesday's presidential election will turn out, but the Federal Reserve's move two days later is much easier to predict: With inflation continuing to cool, the Fed is set to cut interest rates for a second time this year. The presidential contest...
Fed Chair Powell says the US economy is in 'solid shape' with gradual rate cuts coming
WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell signaled Monday that more interest rate cuts are in the pipeline but suggested they would occur at a measured pace intended to support a still-healthy economy. His comments, at a conference of the National Association for...
Will the Federal Reserve cut interest rates fast enough to deliver a 'soft landing'?
WASHINGTON (AP) — American consumers and home buyers, business people and political leaders have been waiting for months for what the Federal Reserve is poised to announce this week: That it's cutting its key interest rate from a two-decade peak. It's likely to be just the first in...
Fed official broke ethics rules but didn't violate insider trading laws, probe finds
WASHINGTON (AP) — A government investigation into Atlanta Federal Reserve President Raphael Bostic's securities trades and investments has found he violated several of the central bank's ethics policies. The Fed rules violations “created the appearance” that Bostic acted on...
The Fed welcomes a 'soft landing' even if many Americans don't feel like cheering
WASHINGTON (AP) — When Jerome Powell delivered a high-profile speech last month, the Federal Reserve chair came the closest he ever had to declaring that the inflation surge that gripped the nation for three painful years was now essentially defeated. And not only that. The Fed's...
Fed minutes: Most officials favored a rate cut in September if inflation continued to cool
WASHINGTON (AP) — Most Federal Reserve officials agreed last month that they would likely cut their benchmark interest rate at their next meeting in September as long as inflation continued to cool. The minutes of the Fed’s July 30-31 meeting, released Wednesday, said the...
Powell may use Jackson Hole speech to hint at how fast and how far the Fed could cut rates
WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal Reserve officials have said they're increasingly confident that they've nearly tamed inflation. Now, it's the health of the job market that's starting to draw their concern. With inflation cooling toward its 2% target, the pace of hiring slowing and the...
Vance backs Trump's support for a presidential 'say' on Federal Reserve's interest rate policy
WASHINGTON (AP) — JD Vance has endorsed former President Donald Trump's call for the White House to have “a say” over the Federal Reserve's interest rate policies — a view that runs counter to decades of economicresearch suggesting that politically independent central banks are essential to...
