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Federal Reserve officials on Wednesday penciled in slightly steeper interest rate cuts this year and next, but there was a wide array of responses in the so-called dot plot, signaling uncertainty ...

The Federal Reserve on Wednesday cut interest rates for the first time in 2025 and released policymakers' quarterly forecast of economic conditions that shows the potential outlook for further rate ...

The S&P 500 and Nasdaq closed modestly lower, with futures contracts reversing the losses, following the 0.25% interest rate reduction from the Federal Reserve, with the updated 'dot plot' only ...

The committee's median forecast for the federal funds rate shows a decline to only 3.4% by the end of 2026, a mere 0.2 percentage point drop from the 3.6% projected for year-end 2025. While 20 bps is ...

The Fed's dot-plot shows a split over whether to the central bank should cut rates three times this year. According to the Fed's "dot-plot" three were 9 officials who wanted only 2 cuts or less. There ...

Richard Moody, chief economist at Regions Financial Corp., said the Fed’s interest-rate committee has become more divided in recent months. These divisions will be easy to spot in the Fed’s new ...

The Federal Reserve lowered the federal-funds rate on Wednesday by 0.25 percentage points, setting a new target range of 4.00%-4.25%. A cut had been widely expected ...

President Trump expressed confidence that he could remove Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell from his position. WSJ’s Nick Timiraos and former Fed Vice Chairman Richard Clarida explain how much ...

The Federal Reserve's latest "dot plot" outlining future interest rate moves suggests the central bank will still cut rates twice this year, unchanged from its March outlook, though June's forecast ...

Wall Street is obsessing over whether the Fed will project one or two rate cuts in 2025 in its next dot plot. Fed officials admit the dot plot creates false certainty despite being built on shaky ...