Fed Rate Cuts Are Less Urgent
What lower inflation and Fed rate cuts could mean for I Bonds, CDs and savers
Promotions on CDs already aren't as good as they were in January, but some attractive yields of 4% or higher remain on one-year CDs.
Ed Yardeni Sees Fed Pausing Rate Cuts for 2024 After Jobs Report
The Federal Reserve’s monetary-easing campaign for 2024 may already be over as the strong labor report Friday underscores the stubborn resilience of the world’s largest economy, according to Wall Street veteran Ed Yardeni.
The Best Dividend Plays For Fed Rate Cuts
FedEx is the type of stock I always watch, waiting for a pullback. It directly benefits from a megatrend, a bull market in e-commerce sales.
Fed’s Goolsbee Sees a Goldilocks U.S. Economy, More Rate Cuts to Come
Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago President Austan Goolsbee would like to freeze the U.S. economy right where it is today. With inflation closing in on a 2% annual rate, full employment, and gross-domestic-product growth in the neighborhood of 3% annually,
Powell says more interest rate cuts are ahead, but Fed is not in a hurry
Why it matters: For now it looks likely that the U.S. economy could avoid a recession as inflation plunges and the labor market remains healthy. Powell signaled that lower rates could help guarantee a so-called "soft landing," but cautioned that some risks remain.
How Fed rate cuts may impact consumers
The Federal Reserve cut its key lending rate by 0.5% on Sept. 18. While it remains to be seen how many more rate cuts will occur, the consensus appears to be additional quarter-point cuts by the end of the year. These cuts are more likely to affect prices on Wall Street than on Main Street.
RBNZ Seen Stepping Up Rate Cuts on Inflation Undershoot Risk
New Zealand’s central bank will cut interest rates by half a percentage point at each of its two remaining policy meetings this year as risks mount of inflation undershooting its 2% target, economists said.
Why Mortgage Rates Haven’t Fallen Since the Fed Cut
The Federal Reserve cut interest rates, then standard 30-year mortgage rates went up. It’s a warning that lower rates from here are not a foregone conclusion.
Fed Rate Cuts Are Less Urgent After Powell Made Breathing Space. Here’s Why and 5 Other Things to Know Today.
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JPMorgan, Bank of America No Longer See a Half-Point Fed Rate Cut in November
JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Bank of America Corp. are now forecasting a quarter-point reduction in interest rates when the Federal Reserve next meets in November, giving up on their calls for a larger cut after labor-market data offered evidence of US economic resilience.
Fed is in no 'hurry' to cut rates quickly. Could that patience be tested?
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell has made it clear the central bank isn’t in a 'hurry' to bring interest rates down, but that will be put to the test this fall with a series of job reports starting Friday.
Take Five: Rate cuts and politics, say no more
It's a packed week ahead with U.S. inflation data, the start of Q3 earnings, a French budget and possibly a big rate cut from ...
Blowout September jobs data points to solid economy and slower Fed rate cuts, analysts say
September's 245,000 new jobs topped consensus forecasts by about 100,000. This means the Fed can probably slow the pace of ...
Will Rate Cuts And AI Benefit Applied Materials Stock?
Applied Materials stock gained almost 10% over the past month and remains up by about 30% year-to-date. In comparison, ...
2 High-Yield Stocks to Buy Before More Interest Rate Cuts
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Fed's Goolsbee calls jobs report 'superb,' still sees rate cuts ahead
Chicago Federal Reserve President Austan Goolsbee on Friday called the latest U.S. jobs report "superb" and said more labor ...
Fed will have a series of 25 bps rate cuts going forward, says Wharton's Jeremy Siegel
Jeremy Siegel, Wharton School professor of finance, joins 'Closing Bell' to discuss the spate of economic data to cross the ...
Victorian home prices: Where rate cuts will add $10,000-plus to property values in a month
House prices are set to surge upwards of $10,000 in the space of a month in 188 Victorian suburbs and towns when interest ...
Projected Fed rate cuts could see 'income drag' akin to 2020 :Mike Dolan
If you think Federal Reserve interest rate cuts could overly spur an already briskly growing U.S. economy, consider the other ...