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Sep 19

Wall Street soars to record highs in a global market rally after Fed’s interest rate cut

By Stan Choe, Associated Press

The S&P 500 jumped 1.7 percent for one of its best days of the year and topped its last all-time high set in July. The Dow Jones Industrial Average leaped 522 points, or 1.3 percent, to beat its own record set…

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Sep 18

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What the first interest rate cut in 4 years means for the Fed’s fight against inflation

By Amna Nawaz, Azhar Merchant

The Federal Reserve cut interest rates for the first time in four years with an aggressive move that lowers its benchmark rate by a half percentage point. The Fed also said it intended to lower interest rates by a full…

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Sep 18

WATCH: Federal Reserve Chair Powell speaks after Fed announces interest rate cut

By Christopher Rugaber, Associated Press

The unusually large half-point rate cut, the Fed’s first in more than four years, reflects its new focus on bolstering the job market, which has shown clear signs of slowing.

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Sep 11

U.S. inflation just hit a 3-year low, easing the way for interest rate cut

By Christopher S. Rugaber, Associated Press

For months, cooling inflation has provided gradual relief to America’s consumers, who were stung by the price surges that erupted three years ago.

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Sep 06

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Chicago Fed president expects multiple interest rate cuts amid economic ‘overcooling’

By Geoff Bennett, Murrey Jacobson, Karina Cuevas

The latest jobs report paints a mixed picture of the overall economy. The U.S. added 142,000 new jobs last month and the unemployment rate dipped slightly to 4.2 percent. The report was better than July, but with revisions, it shows…

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Sep 03

Dow drops more than 600 points as worries about the economy rattle Wall Street

By Stan Choe, Associated Press

U.S. stocks tumbled Tuesday to their worst day since an early August sell-off, as a week full of updates on the economy got off to a discouragingly weak start.

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Sep 03

Fed celebrates end of inflation surge, but many Americans don’t feel like cheering

By Chris Rugaber, Associated Press

Most Americans are not in the same celebratory mood about the plummeting of inflation in the face of the high borrowing rates the Fed engineered.

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Aug 30

As rate cuts near, Federal Reserve’s inflation gauge shows cooling price increases

By Chris Rugaber, Associated Press

An inflation measure closely tracked by the Federal Reserve remained low last month, extending a trend of cooling price increases that clears the way for the Fed to start cutting its key interest rate next month for the first time…

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Aug 23

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Fed chair says ‘time has come’ to cut interest rates amid signs of weakening job market

By John Yang, Karina Cuevas

Financial markets rallied Friday after Fed Chairman Jerome Powell said that it’s time to start cutting interest rates. The question now is by how much, and how quickly fed policymakers will act. Powell said inflation is low enough and that…

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Aug 23

‘The time has come’ for the Federal Reserve to soon begin reducing interest rates, Powell says

By Christopher Rugaber, Associated Press

Powell did not say when rate cuts would begin or how large they might be, but the Fed is widely expected to announce a modest quarter-point cut in its benchmark rate when it meets in mid-September.

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