Tag: Federal Reserve interest rate

• Wednesday, May 1st 2019 - 02:34 UTC

  Trump again puts pressure on the Federal Reserve for raising interest rates

  

  President Donald Trump slammed the Federal Reserve on Tuesday for “incessantly” raising interest rates and said cutting rates by a full point would make the economy surge.

• Wednesday, September 26th 2018 - 21:13 UTC

  Fed raises interest rate and announces a third increase this year

  

  The United States Federal Reserve announced on Wednesday, after a two-day policy meeting, that it would raise interest rates for the third time this year. The decision, which had been widely expected, raised the federal funds rate by 25 basis points, to a range of 2% to 2.25%.

• Monday, March 13th 2017 - 14:40 UTC

  Federal Reserve expected to raise interest rate on Wednesday

  

  Robust hiring by United States employers in President Donald Trump's first full month in power, along with rising wages, have economists tipping a faster-than-anticipated cycle of interest rate increases by the US Federal Reserve, beginning this week.