Cutting Interest Rates

Fed, interest rates

Fed Minutes Should Give More Clues About Rate Cut Timing

The Fed, citing elevated inflation pressures, held short-term interest rates steady at a range of 4.25% to 4.5% at its January meeting.

Wall Street Journal · 1d

Survey Finds Majority of Investors Expect Fed to Cut Rates

The bulk of investors expect the Federal Reserve to cut interest rates this year, according to Bank of America’s global fund manager survey for February.

Bloomberg L.P. · 1d

Fed’s Waller Favors Pausing Rate Cuts Until Inflation Bump Fades

Federal Reserve Governor Christopher Waller said recent economic data support keeping interest rates on hold, but if inflation behaves as it did in 2024, policymakers can get back to cutting “at some point this year.

RBA, rates and Australian dollar

Motley Fool Australia · 2d

Why is the ASX 200 wallowing after the RBA just cut interest rates?

The RBA just cut interest rates for the first time in more than four years. So why is the S&P/ASX 200 Index (ASX: XJO) floundering?

Reuters on MSN · 1d

Dollar firms, Aussie steady after RBA's 'hawkish' rate cut

The dollar firmed on Tuesday as traders weighed tariff worries, geopolitical uncertainties and the path to U.S. rate cuts, while the Australian dollar held near two-month highs after the Reserve Bank of Australia cut rates but cautioned on further easing.

Econostrum English on MSN · 22h

RBA’s First Rate Cut in Years: What It Signals for Australia’s Economy

Australia’s Reserve Bank (RBA) has lowered its benchmark interest rate for the first time since October 2020, cutting it from 4.35% to 4.1%. The decision, taken at the first board meeting of the year,

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Powell says Fed not 'in a hurry' to cut interest rates with 'economy remaining strong'

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell will tell the Senate banking committee the Fed isn't "in a hurry" to resume its interest ...

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Official interest rates have been cut, but not everyone is a winner

But it’s important to remember not everybody benefits from an interest rate cut. Some will be worse off. Not all Australian ...

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Bank of America resets interest rate cut forecast after inflation shocker

The decision comes after the central bank trimmed rates three times starting in September 2024, which has pushed down the ...

Did the Reserve Bank cut interest rates too soon?

This week on The Fin podcast, Michael Stutchbury and Michael Read on whether RBA governor Michele Bullock is “one and done” ...

How banks are responding to Reserve Bank decision to cut interest rates

All four of Australia's major banks make their announcement just minutes after the RBA made its decision public.

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Trump wants interest rate cuts. The market isn't buying it.

Voters elected Trump to find a way to curb the hotter inflation that occurred under President Joe Biden. But the president ...

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Interest rates: Why have they been cut and what does it mean?

The Bank of England has cut interest rates to 4.5%, its lowest level since June 2023. Rates had been at 4.75% since the summer after two reductions, and came down again amid a backdrop of slow ...

What Michele Bullock really meant in speech after cutting interest rates

We’ve deciphered the RBA governor’s comments on Tuesday, after the Reserve Bank cut rates for the first time in more than ...

Why the Reserve Bank poured cold water on future interest-rate-cut expectations

No sooner had the Reserve Bank cut interest rates did governor Michele Bullock find herself being asked the obvious question ...

Australian Central Bank Cuts Benchmark Interest Rate for the First Time Since October 2020

Australia’s central bank has reduced its benchmark interest rate for the first time since October 2020 as the nation’s inflation cools ...

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