Best bets are long-term Treasury bonds and gold, plus utilities, real estate, financials and dividend-paying growth stocks.
But while the Fed’s action will surely have political consequences, it wasn’t a political decision. The straight economic ...
The Federal Reserve’s interest-rate cut is likely to be an overall positive for the stock market—at least over time—and ...
The market rallied Wednesday after the Federal Reserve hiked its federal funds rate target by 0.75 percentage points. The increase marks ... the war in Ukraine and Covid-19 lockdowns in China ...
Yet the markets forecast peak rates as soon as spring. Markets currently view the most likely path as two more small hikes ... Fed sees a soft landing for the economy this interest rate cycle ...
The Federal Reserve’s first key interest rate cut in four years coincides with another major four-year event: the homestretch of the presidential election. But the central bank insists it looks only ...
In a significant shift for the US economy, the Federal Reserve is expected Wednesday to announce its first interest rate cut since Covid.
The main event this week was the monetary policy meeting in the US where markets prior to the meeting were historically divided between a 25bp and 50bp cut. The Federal Reserve chose to lower the ...
The target range for the federal funds rate was ... said the Federal Reserve in a statement on Sunday It said the action - in response to the hit to the economy from the Covid-19 coronavirus ...
As common as rate changes are in election years, brand new rate-reduction cycles - a series of cuts that follow either one or ...
The Federal Reserve on Wednesday almost certainly will lower interest rates for the first time in more than four years as the ...