Slowing inflation in August buttressed arguments Federal Reserve officials used in defense of their decision to lower ...

The public's mood is still marred by nearly two years of high inflation despite the pace of price increases declining ...

With a Fed rate ... cuts 25 basis points or 50 basis points. The equity market tends to do well following a cut, so long as the economy is not in a recession. Various versions of the below chart ...

These moves have done their job ... into the stock market. Now, as we await the Fed's next move, let's consider how the stock market reacted in the past to rate cuts. In the past two cycles ...

Changes in interest rates are always a double-edged sword. Lower interest rates typically support conditions for market ...

How do I get her off my back? A stock-market ... rate cut in an easing cycle,” the Goldman team wrote in a note to clients shared with MarketWatch. Over the past couple of months, small caps ...

The Federal Reserve cut interest rates on Wednesday by half a percentage point. Here are some takeaways from the decision and from remarks by the Fed chair, Jerome H. Powell. The Fed’s decision ...

In most cases, the S&P 500 produced a positive return during the 12-month period following the first rate cut in each cycle, as shown in the chart ... have already been priced into the market.

Supposedly, rate cuts will benefit the housing market, homeowners and would-be homebuyers. It’s true that rate cuts have some ... Bramlett says. The chart below shows the past 20 Fed rate ...

big tech loves lower rates,” said one market source. Spreads on the group’s outstanding bonds tightened on Thursday, continuing the trend of the past two weeks, as the following chart from ...

The chart tracks the share of credit card balances that are past due ... The market is showing warning signals of a potential recession. Historically, Fed rate cuts have not only failed to ...