October 3, 2024 – 6:48 AM PDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The number of Americans filing new applications for unemployment benefits rose marginally…
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Tag: U.S. central bank
Fed expected to deliver quarter-percentage-point rate cut next week
U.S. central bankers will likely start long-awaited interest rate cuts next week with a quarter-of-a-percentage-point reduction.
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Wall St kicks off September on downbeat note at start of data-packed week
Wall Street’s main indexes fell over 1% as investors assessed latest factory activity data.
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Fed’s Powell says ‘time has come’ to lower interest rates
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell offered an explicit endorsement of interest rate cuts, saying further cooling in the job market would be unwelcome.
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Fed likely to hold rates steady one last time as inflation fight finale unfolds
The Federal Reserve is expected to open the door to interest rate cuts as soon as September by acknowledging inflation has edged nearer to the U.S. central bank’s 2% target.
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Fed getting ‘closer’ to rate cuts, top officials say
Fed Governor Christopher Waller and New York Fed President John Williams both voiced that description of the shortening horizon toward looser monetary policy.
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