Market Braces For High Interest Rates: Investors Price In Just One Cut This Year As Fed Minutes Loom
And there’s much higher risk of a 2022-like, policy-related stock market pullback than many are bracing for, according to the chief economist of asset manager Apollo.
Fed's Waller ready for more rate cuts in 2025
At its December meeting, the FOMC lowered the federal funds rate to a range of 4.25% to 4.5%. Committee members also adjusted their median projection rate for the end of 2025 to 3.9%, up from a projected 3.4% in September.
Fed minutes show officials were eager to slow interest-rate cuts
The Fed’s favored inflation gauge, the personal consumption expenditures price index, rose 2.4% in the year through November, and 2.8% minus food and energy. Fed officials since the meeting have signaled they are in no hurry to cut rates and want to see more evidence that price increases are settling down.
Fed Not Seen Cutting Rates At January Meeting
The Federal Open Market Committee is highly likely to hold interest rates at their current level at their next meeting, but cuts later in 2025 remain on the table.
Federal Reserve Officials at December Meeting Expected Slower Pace of Rate Cuts Ahead
Federal Reserve officials at their meeting Dec. 17-18 expected to dial back the pace of interest rate cuts this year in the face of persistently elevated inflation and the threat of widespread tariffs
'Some' Fed officials backed holding rates steady in December
Some Federal Reserve officials wanted the central bank to hold the benchmark rate steady in December, according to minutes of the meeting released Wednesday. These officials suggested that the risk of "persistently elevated inflation" had increased in recent months.
Fed eyes slower rate cuts on worries about stalling disinflation: Fed's minutes
Federal Reserve policymakers were in favor of slowing the pace of rate cuts on concerns about stalling disinflation, according to the minutes of the Federal Reserve’s Dec. 17-18 meeting released Wednesday.
Fed expected to pump brakes on rate cuts in 2025 as Trump policies stir concern
Federal Reserve officials at their meeting Dec. 17-18 expected to dial back the pace of interest rate cuts this year in the face of persistently elevated inflation and the threat of widespread tariffs and other potential policy changes.
Dollar Gains on Reduced Fed Rate Cut Expectations
Tuesday rose by +0.30%. The dollar on Tuesday recovered from early losses and posted moderate gains as T-note yields jumped on the stronger-than-expected US Nov JOLTS job openings and Dec ISM services reports,
Federal Reserve Worried About How Trump Policies On Tariffs And Immigration Could Impact Inflation, Minutes Show
The effects of potential changes in trade and immigration policy suggested” restoring 2% inflation “could take longer than ...
CD Rates Could Change in 2025. Will They Still Be a Good Buy?
CDs reached record highs in 2023 and 2024. CD rates will likely continue their decline in 2025 due to recent Fed rate cuts, ...
Fed minutes show Wall Street pushed back expected end of balance sheet drawdown
Banks told the Fed ahead of the December policy meeting that they saw this process ending in June of this year.
Trump Advisers Look to Reshape Fed Leadership as Roles Open
President-elect Donald Trump’s advisers are considering how they will reshape the leadership of the Federal Reserve including ...
Fed braces for Trump inflation bump
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Stock Market Today: Stocks End Mixed After FOMC Minutes
The minutes from the December Fed meeting signaled central bankers' uncertainty over potential Trump administration policies.
'Enter at own risk': Why raging optimism for 2025 is a risk for stocks and the economy
BCA Research predicted previously that stocks could drop as much as 26% this year. The firm has a recession as its base case ...