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The Federal Reserve voted to cut interest rates Wednesday by another quarter percent, in an effort to prop up a sagging job market. Fed officials warned they'll be cautious about more cuts in 2026.
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Fed cuts rate but future easing uncertain BBCDivided Fed approves third rate cut this year, sees slower pace ahead cnbc.comThe Fed is stuck Financial Times‘Be careful what you wish for': Top economist warns any additional interest rate cuts after today would signal the economy is slipping into danger Fortune
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Fed meeting live coverage: Federal Reserve cuts interest rates by 0.25%, Powell says there's 'no risk-free path' Yahoo FinanceFed Cuts Rates Again, Is Divided Over Future Moves The New York TimesCNBC Daily Open: Investors find cheer amid Fed's hawkish cut cnbc.com‘Be careful what you wish for': Top economist warns any additional interest rate cuts after today would signal the economy is slipping into danger Fortune
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The Federal Reserve on Wednesday made its final final interest rate move of the year.
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David Zaslav's Next Act Looks Murky As Netflix & Paramount Face Off Over Warner Bros Acquisition DeadlineParamount Makes Hostile Bid for Warner Bros. Discovery The New York TimesParamount's hostile takeover bid is one of the largest CNNFed expected to cut rates and Hollywood's own drama kicks off awards season: Morning Rundown NBC NewsT
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The central bank cut interest rates by a quarter of a percentage point, seeking to steady a softening labor market.
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The S&P 500 index narrowly missed a fresh record close Wednesday and the Dow Jones Industrial Average finished with strong gains after the Federal Reserve's decision to deliver a final quarter-point rate cut for 2025, which gave investors optimism that equities can keep climbing through year-end.
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Executives on a DealBook Summit task force panel said fear was not the way to build teams capable of navigating difficult times.
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Divided Fed lowers rates, signals pause and one 2026 cut as growth rebounds ReutersThe Fed just cut interest rates for the third-straight time CNNA divided Fed cuts interest rates again as economic concerns persist NBC NewsFederal Reserve Chair Holds News Conference C-SPAN'Be careful what you wish for': Top economist warns any additional interest rate cuts after
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Bumble cofounder Whitney Wolfe Herd will step down as the dating app company's chief executive, the firm announced on November 6th.
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WHAT are Republican lawmakers in politics to achieve? Not many years ago, at the peak of their outrage over Barack Obama''s economic stimulus package, 'balanced budgets' might have featured in the answer. But the frenzied passage of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act through Congress has revealed the insincerity of the party''s fiscal moralising. Republicans in Congress do not oppose government borrowing when it suits them. Rather, the overarching policy objective that unifies them is cutting taxes—and damn the fiscal consequences. Following the passage of the tax bill through the Senate in the early hours of December 2nd, Republicans are on the brink of achieving their goal.On November 30th budget scorekeepers unveiled a forecast for how much extra economic growth the tax bill might spark: enough to pay for about one third of its $1.5trn cost. Previously, Republicans might have viewed this projection as a triumph. They have long pressed for budget forecasts to include such 'dynamic' effects (see blog). But the score briefly seemed to imperil the bill. It undermined the absurd claim, made by the Republican leadership and the Trump administration, that tax cuts would pay for themselves in full. No serious economist ever thought this credible. Yet the official score seemed to blow Republicans'' ...
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