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US interest rates

  • Thursday, 10 October, 2024
    US inflation
    US inflation fell to 2.4% in September

    Figures for headline and core rates marginally surpass expectations

    Line chart showing US inflation over the past five years
  • Thursday, 10 October, 2024
    Global Economy
    Inflation and interest rates tracker: see how your country compares

    Inflationary pressures are beginning to wane but not all central banks have taken action yet. See how this affects you

  • Wednesday, 9 October, 2024
    Federal Reserve
    Fed officials were divided over big rate cut in September

    Minutes from meeting showed some dispute about how quickly to reduce borrowing costs

    A man walks past the Federal Reserve in Washington
  • Wednesday, 9 October, 2024
    US Treasury bonds
    Treasury market volatility surges as investors rethink interest rate bets

    Bond traders brace for inflation data on Thursday after jobs figures smashed expectations

    A trader examines multiple computer screens displaying financial charts and data
  • Tuesday, 8 October, 2024
    Economists Exchange
    John Williams: ‘I don’t want to see the economy weaken’

    The New York Federal Reserve president on the battle to tame inflation

    Economist exchange illustration of Colby Smith, left, and John Williams
  • Tuesday, 8 October, 2024
    InterviewJohn C. Williams
    Top Fed official says US economy ‘well positioned’ for soft landing

    New York Fed president John Williams signals support for quarter-point interest rate cuts

    John Williams speaks at an event in Washington
  • Monday, 7 October, 2024
    UnhedgedRobert Armstrong
    The jobs report was a relief, not a revelation Premium content

    And rising long yields

  • Friday, 4 October, 2024
    US employment
    US economy smashes expectations with 254,000 jobs added in September

    Figure prompts traders to increase bets Federal Reserve will slow pace of interest rate cuts

    Chart showing US monthly change in jobs
  • Wednesday, 2 October, 2024
    UnhedgedAiden Reiter
    The trouble with pinning down the neutral rate Premium content

    Don’t rely on easy r* narratives

    People outside the New York Stock Exchange.
  • Tuesday, 1 October, 2024
    Martin Wolf
    Have we seen the end of cheap money?

    There are reasons to expect real rates to go even higher

    James Ferguson illustration of a person riding a bicycle up a rising interest rate curve
  • Monday, 30 September, 2024
    Powell signals Fed will revert to quarter-point cut in November

    US central bank chair expresses ‘growing confidence’ of soft landing for economy

    Jay Powell
  • Monday, 30 September, 2024
    Markets InsightMohamed El-Erian
    The Fed’s insurance policy

    Big interest rate cut is yet another evolution in paradigm of liquidity dominance

    A screen on the trading floor at the New York Stock Exchange displays a news conference with Federal Reserve chair Jay Powell on September 18
  • Friday, 27 September, 2024
    US inflation
    Fed’s preferred inflation measure falls more than expected to 2.2%

    Data comes after US central bank last week cut interest rates for the first time since the pandemic

    Chart showing annual per cent change in US PCE
  • Friday, 27 September, 2024
    Fed should cut US interest rates ‘gradually’, says top official

    St Louis Fed president tells FT the economy could react ‘very vigorously’ to loosening financial conditions

    Alberto Musalem
  • Tuesday, 24 September, 2024
    Chris Giles on Central Banks
    Three questions for Jay Powell Premium content

    The Fed went all out last week. The aftershocks of the jumbo cut are still reverberating

    Federal Reserve chair Jay Powell
  • Tuesday, 24 September, 2024
    UnhedgedRobert Armstrong
    What if the Fed doesn’t matter? Premium content

    An interesting heresy

  • Sunday, 22 September, 2024
    US banks
    Fed’s high-rates era handed $1tn windfall to US banks

    Lenders charged more for loans but kept interest payments to savers down, FT analysis finds

    Jay Powell
  • Sunday, 22 September, 2024
    Markets
    How resilient is the US consumer?

    Market Questions is the FT’s guide to the week ahead

    Worker prices produce at a store in San Francisco
  • Saturday, 21 September, 2024
    On Wall StreetJennifer Hughes
    What is the yield curve really telling us about the odds of recession?

    Believers in predictive power of so-called inversion in bond markets still think it augurs downturn

    Unemployed man with sign on road in Philadelphia in 1980
  • Saturday, 21 September, 2024
    Emerging market investing
    Investors hope US rate cuts will provide lift for emerging market debt

    Local currency bonds have lagged this year but Fed’s move is expected to ease pressure on developing nations

    Lesetja Kganyago, governor of the South Africa Reserve Bank, announces a cut in  rates
  • Friday, 20 September, 2024
    The Big Read
    Did central banks get the inflation crisis right?

    Policymakers are lowering rates and signalling new confidence that a ‘soft landing’ is possible. But few are ready to declare victory

    The US Federal Reserve, Bank of England and European Central Bank, along with a line graph representing inflation
  • Friday, 20 September, 2024
    Top Fed official would back more aggressive interest rate cuts if US data worsen

    Influential governor Christopher Waller says inflation is falling more quickly than he expected

    Christopher Waller
  • Friday, 20 September, 2024
    UnhedgedMarkets
    Immigration and job creation Premium content

    The labour market is softer than it appears

  • Thursday, 19 September, 2024
    UnhedgedRobert Armstrong
    For the Fed, the destination matters much more than the pace Premium content

    Investors have no choice but to guess at the neutral rate

    Jay Powell
  • Thursday, 19 September, 2024
    Federal Reserve
    Fed cuts rates by half a point and signals era of easing has begun

    US central bank’s decision marks milestone in two-year fight against inflation

    Jay Powell speaks at a press conference in Washington. He stands at a podium with microphones, in front of US flags and Federal Reserve banners.
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