US Fed fund rates

US Economy

Fed lifts rates to 1.75% on improving economy; two more increases expected this year

(Mar 22): Federal Reserve officials, meeting for the first time under Chairman Jerome Powell, raised the benchmark lending rate a quarter-point and forecast a steeper path of hikes in 2019 and 2020, citing an improving economic outlook. Policy makers cont

Currencies

US dollar struggles on policy uncertainty, political woes

TOKYO (July 31): The US dollar struggled on Monday, wallowing near a 2-1/2-year low against the euro, weighed down by US political uncertainty and uninspiring US data that added to doubts about whether there will be another Federal Reserve rate hike this
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