After three straight hotter-than-expected inflation reports, Federal Reserve officials have turned more cautious about the prospect of interest rate cuts this year
By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — After three straight hotter-than-expected inflation reports, Federal Reserve officials have turned more cautious about the prospect of interest rate cuts this year. The big question, after they end their latest policy meeting Wednesday, will be: Will they still signal rate cuts at all this year? Wall
Powell likely to signal that lower inflation is needed before Fed would cut rates
Since retiring two years ago, Joan Harris has upped her travel game. Once or twice a year, she visits her two adult children in different states. She’s planning multiple other trips, including to a science fiction convention in Scotland and a Disney cruise soon after that, along with a trip next year to neolithic sites in Great Britain. “I really have more money to spend now than when I was working,” said Harris, 64, an engineer who worked 29 years for the federal government and lives in...
A version of this story first appeared in CNN Business’ Before the Bell newsletter. Not a subscriber? You can sign up right here. You can listen to an audio version of the newsletter by clicking the same link. Nowadays, it’s anyone’s guess when the Federal Reserve will begin to cut interest rates this year — if at all. Fed officials are meeting this week, starting Tuesday, to discuss rates and set policy. They’re widely expected to hold rates steady for the sixth straight meeting. But analysts...
Since the start of the year, central bankers' best hopes to take pressure
Older Americans are fueling a sustained boost to the U.S. economy. Benefiting from outsize gains in the stock and housing markets over the past several years, they are accounting for a larger share of consumer spending — the principal driver of economic growth — than ever before.
The Federal Reserve will be watching jobs and unemployment numbers, as well as a manufacturing index and other private sector reports.
Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago president Austan Goolsbee on Friday said "more sniffing" is needed before the Fed can cut interest rates. Here's what to know.
Investors need to stifle any hope for interest rate cuts this year, as the Federal Reserve will not be able to reach its inflation mandate anytime soon, Kevin O'Leary said.The "Shark Tank" star told Fox Business Network that monetary policy will instead remain unchanged, and that anyone still betting on a dovish pivot is mistaken. Backing him up on Wednesday was the Fed itself, which announced at the conclusion of its latest policy meeting that it would leave the federal funds rate at its...
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Federal Reserve is highly likely to keep interest rates unchanged later this week, as policymakers contend with a recent uptick in inflation that has sharply cut the chance of a summer start to interest rate cuts. The Fed's decision to hike interest rates and then hold them at a 23-year high has helped to significantly lower elevated inflation, although it remains stuck firmly above the U.S. central bank's long-term target of two percent.
The US central bank's favored measure of inflation accelerated last month, according to government data published Friday, pushing back the chances of an interest rate cut this summer.The hotter print is likely to cement the view that inflation, while down sharply since 2022, remains a challenge, and could keep the Federal Reserve on pause as it seeks to battle rising prices.It also complicates US president Joe Biden's reelection message as he seeks to convince still-skeptical consumers that the...