This story was updated to add new information. WASHINGTON — In the end, the Fed decided to go big. The Federal Reserve lowered its key interest rate by a hefty half percentage point Wednesday ...

Jeanna Smialek transcript Jerome H. Powell, the Fed chair, said that the central bank would take future interest rate cuts “meeting by meeting” after lowering rates by a half percentage point ...

The "Fed put" is back, and stock investors may not be fully pricing in the good news, according to Fundstrat's head of research Tom Lee. The prominent stock bull pointed to the idea that central ...

Investors are pricing in a 61% chance the Fed will cut rates 50 basis points, according to the CME FedWatch tool, down slightly from 63% odds priced in on Tuesday. The debate has swung in favor of ...

Wednesday. The Fed’s policy-setting committee cut the federal funds rate by 50 basis points, the more aggressive move as consensus was split between a 25 or 50 basis-point cut. It’s the first ...

The Fed said the cut lowers the federal funds rate into a range of 4.75% to 5%, down from its prior range of 5.25% to 5.5%, which had been its highest level in 23 years. The half-point move ...

The Federal Reserve shapes the economy by adjusting the fed funds rate, which directly affects certain borrowing costs for consumers and businesses. Lowering rates tends to benefit those with ...

Not a bit. Not cutting rates is what would have been political. On Wednesday, the Fed’s rate-setting Federal Open Market Committee cut the target range for the federal funds rate — the short ...

Biden, who has publicly touted the Fed’s policy independence, will speak at the Economic Club of Washington, DC, on Thursday and likely tout an economy that’s come full circle in four years.

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Eleven of 12 Fed voters backed the cut, which brings the benchmark federal-funds rate to a range between 4.75% and 5%. Quarterly projections released Wednesday showed a narrow majority of ...