Stock Market Today: Dow ends down over 1,100 points after Fed lowers interest rates, signals fewer cuts in 2025
The Cboe Volatility Index, which trades under the ticker symbol VIX, was down 4% at slightly more than 15, according to FactSet data, at last check. The VIX was trading slightly below its 200-day moving average, based on FactSet data around midday Wednesday.
Stock market today: Dow logs longest losing streak since 1978 as stocks slide ahead of Fed decision
The Fed meeting kicks off with investors on alert for clues to the path of rates after the widely expected December cut.
The Fed is lowering interest rates. So why are mortgage rates going up?
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Fed policymakers see slower rate-cut path next year
By Michael S. Derby, Ann Saphir (Reuters) -Federal Reserve policymakers, fresh from an interest rate cut this week, fleshed out on Friday the case for reducing borrowing costs more slowly next year as they assess progress in lowering inflation and the impact of tariffs and other policies promised by President-elect Donald Trump.
Fed’s Goolsbee Now Sees Shallower Path for Rate Cuts Next Year
Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago President Austan Goolsbee said he adjusted his outlook for interest rates a little higher for 2025 but added he still expects borrowing costs to fall a “fair bit more” over the next 12 to 18 months.
The Fed’s rate cuts were supposed to make borrowing cheaper. So why is it harder than ever to buy a house?
Most recently, right after the Fed’s decision was announced, the 30-year mortgage rate jumped 22 basis points between Tues
Fed policymakers prepare the ground for rate-cut pause next year
By Michael S. Derby, Ann Saphir (Reuters) -Federal Reserve policymakers, fresh from an interest rate cut this week, on Friday signaled their readiness to take a break from further reductions in borrowing costs next year as they take stock of progress to lower inflation.
Fed’s Daly ‘Very Comfortable’ With Two 2025 Rate Cuts
Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco President Mary Daly said she is “very comfortable” with policymakers’ median projection of two interest-rate cuts in 2025. Daly added, “my projection is that it will take many fewer rate cuts next year than we thought but I’ll watch the economy and see if that works out.
The Fed Cut Rates. Mortgage Costs Went Up.
Surging Treasury yields have pushed borrowing costs higher.
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