FOMC Meeting

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The Fed has a big interest rate decision coming Wednesday. Here’s what to expect

Futures market traders are pricing in a near certainty that the Fed on Wednesday will lower its benchmark overnight borrowing rate by a quarter percentage point.

“I’d be inclined to say ‘no cut,’” former Kansas City Fed President Esther George said Tuesday during a CNBC “Squawk Box” interview.

In addition to the rate decision, the Fed will update its “dot plot” of future expectations as well as the collective outlook on the state of the economy.

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/12/17/the-fed-has-a-big-interest-rate-decision-coming-wednesday-heres-what-to-expect.html

 

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No change to rates but the probabilities are moving for future meeting. Here's May's...

 

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Here’s what changed in the new Fed statement

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/03/19/march-fed-meeting-heres-what-changed-in-the-new-statement.html

Watch Fed Chair Jerome Powell’s press conference here.

 

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Fed holds rates steady as it notes rising uncertainty and stagflation risk

Uncertainty about the economic outlook has increased further,” the statement said. “The Committee is attentive to the risks to both sides of its dual mandate and judges that the risks of higher unemployment and higher inflation have risen.

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/05/07/fed-rate-decision-may-2025.html