Wall Street Journal (September 17)
2026/ 09/ 18 by jd in Global News
“The Federal Reserve raised interest rates Wednesday for the first time in three years, a sharp reversal that began taking back cuts it made last year.” The decision to “raise the benchmark federal-funds rate range by a quarter point to between 3.75% and 4%” was unanimous and most “officials penciled in one more hike this year in interest-rate projections released after their meeting.”
Tags: 3.75%, Benchmark, Decision, Fed, Federal-funds rate, Hike, Interest rates, Projections, Quarter-point, Raise, Reversal, Unanimous
