All eyes are on the Fed tomorrow! – The FOMC will announce its decision on interest rates, a key moment that can trigger significant market volatility.
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Fed’s Hammack: Tariff impacts remain uncertain
Federal Reserve outlook: Beth Hammack of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland depicted a fundamentally robust economy, despite inflation persistently surpassing the Fed’s target.
Fed Holds Interest Rates Steady but Opens Door to a Cut – Gold Silver Reports
Federal Reserve officials left interest rates unchanged at their June meeting but opened the door to a cut if President Trump’s trade fight intensified and risks to the American economy increased.
Federal Reserve Officials are Widely Expected to Interest-Rate Increase
Gold Silver Reports — Federal Reserve officials are widely expected to announce an interest-rate increase this week amid buoyancy in the stock market and indications the U.S. economy continues to grow steadily, without signaling they anticipate accelerating their pace of policy tightening.
Beyond the expected announcement Wednesday of a quarter-point hike in the U.S. central bank’s benchmark rate target, to a range of 0.75 percent to 1 percent, investors will be looking for whether policy makers change their forecasts for the rest of 2017 and beyond.