Rising US debt and economic headwinds suggest that further rate cuts may not effectively lower Treasury rates or other loan ...
Large rate cuts – such as those Fed officials approved and forecast last week – typically reflect an economy the Federal Reserve is trying to dig out of recession. And record-high stock values ...
Now that inflation is easing, the Fed may be poised to make another blunder by moving too slowly to cut rates and triggering ...
That will mark the first rate cut the Fed has issued in over four years ... surrounding the weakening job market. "We are in a recession already," Gundlach said at the event, per Bloomberg's ...
The Federal Reserve cut interest rates by a quarter of a percentage point on Thursday, setting the latest path for borrowing ...
The Fed does not have an excellent track record in avoiding recessions with rate cuts. 78% of the time, the economy was either already in recession or ended up in recession after monetary easing ...
“As you see jobs numbers come in weaker than expected but not looking yet like recession ... for aggressive rate cuts in September are overdone.” The Fed kept its benchmark interest rate ...
"History back to 1990 supports the idea that an initial Fed rate cut of 50 basis points signals an imminent recession (2001 and 2007)," write Nicholas Colas and Jessica Rabe, co-founders of ...
Has the Fed nailed a “soft landing,” slowing inflation without causing a recession? Or is September’s rate cut a sign that higher interest rates have gone too far and made the economy too weak?
If investors interpret a Fed rate cut as occurring because the Fed is worried about an impending recession, stock values could fall, especially if the economy weakens after the rate reduction is ...
The Fed's recent half-point cut in the federal funds rate ... makes questionable the warnings of a pending recession premised on the joblessness rate. Employment needs are shifting.
The move comes two months after the Fed cut its benchmark interest rate a half of a percentage point, dialing back its yearslong fight against inflation and delivering relief for borrowers saddled ...