The Federal Reserve slashed it’s benchmark rate by a half-point: Here’s what you need to know
The Federal Reserve has cut its benchmark interest rate from its 23-year high, with consequences for debt, savings, auto ...
Fed interest rate cut: Benchmark lending rate slashed by 0.5%
With both the jobs picture and inflation softening, the central bank’s Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) decided to lower ...
Fed chops key interest rate by a sizable half-point, turns focus to more jobs
The rate cut, the Fed’s first in more than four years, reflects its new focus on bolstering the job market, which has shown ...
‘In a good place’: Federal Reserve cuts key rate by half-point, shifts focus from inflation to jobs
The Federal Reserve cut its benchmark interest rate by an unusually large half-point, a dramatic shift after more than two ...
VW ‘considers cutting 30,000 jobs’
The Bank of England left interest rates on hold today, as expected, but with just one vote for a cut (so relatively hawkish).
Hiring up, unemployment down in August jobs report
New data should bolster expected Fed cut later this month to benchmark rate that’s stood at two-decade high since last summer ...
Sluggish US jobs report clears the way for Federal Reserve to cut interest rates
Hiring by America’s employers picked up a bit in August from July’s tepid pace, and the unemployment rate dipped for the ...
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Fed rate cut glow spreads to Wall Street, jobs data helps
U.S. stock indexes sailed higher in the wake of their global counterparts and the dollar wobbled on Thursday after the ...
Fed Cuts Rates by Half-Point to Combat Slowing Job Growth
The Federal Reserve on Sept. 18 cut its benchmark interest rate by an unusually large half-point, a dramatic shift after more than two years of high rates.
Employers added 142,000 jobs in August, weaker than economists had forecasted
The latest labor market data comes less than two weeks ahead of the Federal Reserve's decision on whether to cut interest ...
Sluggish US jobs report raises question of how much Fed will cut rates this month
Hiring by America’s employers picked up a bit in August from July’s tepid pace, and the unemployment rate dipped for the ...