How to Use Fed in a Sentence
Fed
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Chief among them is that no one can be sure about when Fed will be done hiking rates.
—Stan Choe, ajc, 8 June 2023
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That seems to be what the error-prone Fed is intent on giving us.
—Steve H. Hanke, National Review, 4 May 2023
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This is the first Fed survey of bank lending to be released since these banks failed.
—Nate Dicamillo, Quartz, 8 May 2023
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But Fed officials are taking the data with a grain of salt.
—Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN, 15 July 2023
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Current Fed Chair Jerome Powell has set the tone for the most aggressive global hiking of rates in the modern era.
—Bysydney Lake, Fortune, 20 Oct. 2023
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But Fed officials have penciled in just one rate cut for this year, and the days of ultra-low interest rates are long gone.
—Bryan Mena, CNN, 21 June 2024
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Of course, there’s a long history of investors getting burned by premature bets on Fed rate cuts that would sink the dollar.
—Alice Atkins, Fortune, 16 July 2023
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But a recent survey of banking conditions from the Dallas Fed was bleak.
—Rachel Siegel, Washington Post, 2 May 2023
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In the meantime, dampening the spirits of the soft-landing hopefuls was that Fed Chair Jerome Powell put off talk of interest rate cuts.
—Paolo Confino, Fortune, 5 Mar. 2024
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Minutes from the Fed’s last meeting showed that Fed officials were split on whether to raise its benchmark borrowing rate.
—Matt Ott, BostonGlobe.com, 25 May 2023
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But most Fed watchers expect the central bank to forgo another hike at its next meeting in mid-June.
—Christopher Rugaber, USA TODAY, 26 May 2023
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Hopes for no more Fed rate increases had financial markets around the world ebullient.
—Stan Choe The Associated Press, Arkansas Online, 3 Nov. 2023
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Some Fed officials have hinted that higher yields could effectively do the job of one more rate hike.
—Rachel Siegel, Washington Post, 19 Oct. 2023
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If this disinflation trend persists, the first Fed rate cut could come before the end of the year as anticipated.
—Orphe Divounguy | The Center Square Contributor, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 1 July 2024
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The rumbling banking crisis underscores the hazards to the economy of a hawkish Fed.
—Jane Thier, Fortune, 5 May 2023
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But abnormally strong hiring alone may not be enough to dissuade Fed officials who want to hit pause.
—Jeanna Smialek, New York Times, 2 June 2023
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But abnormally strong hiring alone might not be enough to dissuade Fed officials who want to hit pause.
—Compiled By Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 3 June 2023
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On the other hand, Fed chair Jerome Powell was also remarkably upbeat about the economy’s health because of the jobs market.
—Q.ai - Powering A Personal Wealth Movement, Forbes, 5 May 2023
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Many market observers are expecting interest rate cuts as soon as a Fed meeting in March.
—Max Zahn, ABC News, 17 Jan. 2024
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That could complicate the path for Fed officials, who began raising interest rates last year to cool the economy and slow price growth.
—Ben Casselman, New York Times, 26 May 2023
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This spring, Wheeler called a special Labor Fed meeting to urge unions to not just support one another but learn about one another.
—Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 8 Aug. 2023
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This week, the stock market flinched when Fed officials unexpectedly forecast two more quarter-point rate increases by the end of the year.
—Joe Rennison, New York Times, 16 June 2023
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Consumers still have excess savings to use from the pandemic, a San Francisco Fed study showed recently.
—Eric Martin, Fortune, 28 May 2023
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Investors expect the Fed to raise rates once more this year, less than what most Fed policymakers anticipate.
—Jeanna Smialek, BostonGlobe.com, 21 June 2023
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Jerome Powell’s Fed is giving history every reason to judge it harshly.
—Desmond Lachman, National Review, 12 May 2023
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With earnings season all but over, investors now need to wait on economic data scheduled for release in the coming weeks and one final Fed meeting before closing out the year.
—Jj Kinahan, Forbes, 13 Nov. 2023
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And while the rise was in line with projections, the index, which Fed officials view as a crucial gauge of underlying inflation, rose at the fastest monthly pace since February 2023.
—Krystal Hur, CNN, 5 Mar. 2024
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Investors will pay close attention to Fed Chair Jerome Powell's remarks, seeking clues on where interest rates might be headed later this year.
—Harold Maass, The Week, 14 June 2023
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While this had primarily affected downtown areas, the suburban office market is now starting to feel the squeeze, the Boston Fed said.
—Larry Edelman, BostonGlobe.com, 5 June 2023
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In fact, the number of Americans who hold any stocks at all also hit a record, with 58% of all Americans invested in equities in some form, also according to Fed data.
—Irina Ivanova, Fortune, 13 Jan. 2024
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