How to Use the Fed in a Sentence

the Fed

noun

• In 2017, Trump tapped him to lead the Fed for his first four-year term.
  — Paolo Confino, Fortune, 16 Mar. 2024
• That's prompted the Fed to pause any move to ease rates.
  — Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 20 Mar. 2024
• Hopes that the Fed was poised to cut rates have been put on hold for now.
  — Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 14 Apr. 2024
• Over the last year, the Fed raised rates from nearly zero to 4.75%.
  — Michelle Cheng, Quartz, 22 Mar. 2023
• How far will mortgage rates fall when the Fed cuts rates?
  — Lucia Suarez Sang, CBS News, 9 Apr. 2024
• That could cause the Fed to not cut rates and could cause investors to become spooked.
  — Zachary Halaschak, Washington Examiner, 28 Dec. 2023
• Wall Street and the Fed have also been confused this year.
  — Paolo Confino, Fortune, 28 May 2024
• Powell has used the summit in the past to hint at the Fed’s next policy move.
  — Krystal Hur, CNN, 16 Aug. 2024
• But their markets have cooled as the Fed has raised rates and home builders have caught up to demand.
  — Andrew Van Dam, Washington Post, 24 Nov. 2023
• Stimulus from Congress and the Fed was too small to fix it.
  — Dylan Matthews, Vox, 16 Aug. 2024
• For now, investors are reassessing when the Fed might be ready to cut rates.
  — Rafael Nam, NPR, 10 Apr. 2024
• At the same time, the Fed last year shifted from buying Treasuries to shrinking its stash of U.S. debt.
  — Jeff Sommer, New York Times, 27 Oct. 2023
• This suggests that the Fed’s monetary stance is about right—not too loose, not too tight.
  — WSJ, 15 Jan. 2024
• Traders now see a 17% expectation that the Fed will cut rates in March, compared to 46% a week ago.
  — Krystal Hur, CNN, 5 Feb. 2024
• The market odds are for a 25-basis-point cut when the Fed’s two-day meeting ends Thursday.
  — Jeff Marks,morgan Chittum, CNBC, 1 Nov. 2024
• Each time the Fed raises the rate, lending rates that banks charge their customers tend to follow.
  — Jeanne Sahadi, CNN, 25 Mar. 2023
• That’s down from 2.3% in September and is almost right on the Fed’s +2.0% per year target.
  — Robert Barone, Forbes, 2 Nov. 2024
• But Bank of America predicts that the two forces, with the help of a push from the Fed, will reach equilibrium in 2025.
  — Dylan Sloan, Fortune, 21 Feb. 2024
• During Trump’s first term, the federal funds rate, which is controlled by the Fed, peaked at 2.5 per cent.
  — John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 15 July 2024
• So far, the approach has succeeded in cooling price hikes but fallen short of the Fed's goal.
  — Max Zahn, ABC News, 20 Apr. 2023
• The punch bowl was removed from the VC party after the Fed started to raise interest rates in 2022.
  — Edward Chancellor, WIRED, 12 Jan. 2024
• In recent weeks, long-term interest rates, which the Fed doesn’t control, have risen sharply.
  — John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2023
• But the Fed has become an afterthought with the bond market more focused on the election.
  — Gertrude Chavez-Dreyfuss, USA TODAY, 5 Nov. 2024
• That in turn has forced traders to downshift forecasts for how much the Fed will ultimately cut rates by.
  — Stan Choe, Los Angeles Times, 9 Oct. 2024
• If the market showed signs of entering a recession, then, of course, the Fed should start cutting rates.
  — Kevin A. Hassett, National Review, 19 Jan. 2024
• After March, the next opportunity for the Fed to announce a rate cut would be May 1.
  — Rob Wile, NBC News, 13 Feb. 2024
• But March's 5% year-over-year inflation rate remained well above the Fed's 2% target.
  — Paul Wiseman, ajc, 20 Apr. 2023
• Now, traders are beginning to bet that the Fed might even cut interest rates later this year.
  — Elaine Kurtenbach, ajc, 22 Mar. 2023
• As Americans cast their ballots and Wall Street awaits the Fed’s decision, markets may see short-term volatility.
  — Nicole Goodkind, CNN, 5 Nov. 2024
• On a monthly basis, the core PCE increased by 0.3 percent, an acceleration from the 0.2 percent increases in the three previous months, which may be of some concern to the Fed.
  — Tobias Burns, The Hill, 31 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 12 Dec 2024