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Fed Cuts Rate On Bank Reserves Amid Repo Market Turmoil

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The interest on excess reserves now stands at 1.8%, a 30 basis point cut compared with the 25 basis point reduction for ... Read more

Fed Approves Quarter-point Rate Cut But Is Divided On Further Action This Year

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Investors largely expected the FOMC to cut rates by a quarter point. Read more

Fed Loses Control Of Its Own Interest Rate As It Cut Rates — 'This Just Doesn't Look Good'

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As the Fed was meeting to consider cutting interest rates, it lost control of the very benchmark rate that it manages. Read more

Fed Is Expected To Cut Rates, But Powell May Have A Hard Time Appeasing Critics

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Jerome Powell will "underwhelm everyone and not overwhelm anyone," one economist says Read more

Fed Rate Cut Is Coming, But Some Market Insiders Doubt It's Really Necessary

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A Federal Reserve rate cut at the end of this week's two-day FOMC meeting is considered a "lock" by the market, but chie... Read more

The Fed Is Likely To Lower Rates Again This Week, But Also Signal It's In No Hurry To Keep Cutting

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Traders in the fed funds futures market are pricing in a 34% chance that the Fed will stay put on rates. Read more

Trump Says Fed 'boneheads' Should Cut Interest Rates To Zero 'or Less,' US Should Refinance Debt

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President Donald Trump on Wednesday continued his verbal assault on the Federal Reserve, who he blames for slowing the e... Read more

Fed Chief Powell Says Trade Policy Is Weighing On Investment Decisions

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"I think it is the case that uncertainty around trade policy is causing some companies to hold back now on investment," ... Read more

Powell Says The Fed Is Not Forecasting Or Expecting A Recession

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Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell says the central bank's pivot this year to lower interest rates has helped sustai... Read more

Cramer To Fed's Powell: Just Admit You Were Wrong To Hike Rates So Aggressively And Move On

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"The Fed chair should be bullied by the bond market. And the bond market is saying, 'Whoa, are you wrong,'" says CNBC's ... Read more

The Fed Will Cut Rates By A Quarter Point This Month, Not A Half Point, WSJ Says

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The Federal Reserve is expected to cut rates by a quarter point at its next two day meeting in September. Read more

The Fed Will Cut Rates By A Quarter Point This Month, Not A Half Point, WSJ Says

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The Federal Reserve is expected to cut rates by a quarter point at its next two day meeting in September. Read more

The Fed Will Cut Rates By A Quarter Point This Month, Not A Half Point, WSJ Says

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The Federal Reserve is expected to cut rates by a quarter point at its next two day meeting in September. Read more

Fed May Not Have Enough Firepower To Prevent A Recession

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President Trump has been pressing the Fed to help head off a feared economic slowdown, but it's not clear the central ba... Read more

Fed's Bullard Says Only A 'sustained' Bond Inversion Would Be A Bearish Signal

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The inversion of portions of the Treasury bond yield curve this week "would have to be sustained over a period of time" ... Read more

Trump, Navarro Are The Only Officials In The White House Blaming The Fed For Volatility, Sources Say

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The president has criticized his central bank chief sharply, but stepped it up in recent days when he labeled the Fed le... Read more

A $1 Trillion US Budget Deficit Is One Big Reason The Fed May Have To Cut Rates

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If low inflation, a wobbly economy and tariff jitters weren't enough to push the Federal Reserve to lower interest rates... Read more

Fed's Rate Cutting Helps Provide Cover For Trump To Wage The Trade War

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The president's move to intensify the trade dispute with China comes with an important backstop. Read more

Goldman Sachs: One More Rate Cut And Then The Fed Is Done

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Goldman Sachs gives an 80% probability of another rate cut this year to wrap up the Fed's easing cycle. Read more

Economists Who Predicted The Fed Rate Cut Are Now Utterly Confused About What's Next

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The Federal Reserve delivered its first rate cut since 2008 but Wall Street economists disagree about what happens next. Read more