On October 29, 2025, the U.S. Federal Reserve executed its second consecutive interest rate cut, lowering the federal funds rate by 25 basis points to a range of 3.75% to 4%. This move, widely anticipated …
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The Federal Reserve System (also known as the Federal Reserve or simply the Fed) is the central banking system of the United States of America. My Sweet Retirement blog posts related to Federal Reserve.
Fed Rate Cut in September 2025
On 17th September 2025, the U.S. Federal Reserve delivered its first interest rate cut of the year, trimming the benchmark rate by 25 basis points to a range of 4.00% to 4.25%. This move, framed …
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Fed Jumbo Rate Cut
On Wednesday, 18th September 2024, the Fed announced the jumbo rate cut of 50 bps. Despite a stock market rally on Thursday, the Straits Times Index (STI) ended 0.23% lower on Friday. With the exception …
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US National Debt Clock Explained
The National Debt Clock US (United States) shows the outstanding American debt owed by the Federal government. The National Debt includes public debt, federal trust funds, and government accounts. If you have been to New …
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Fears of Aggressive Rate Hikes
Just when we are about to celebrate when Powell shared last week that it was time to slow the pace of upcoming interest rate hikes, the fears of aggressive rate hikes came back. From the …
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Fed Raises Interest Rates Again
This week, the Fed Raises Interest Rates by 0.75 percentage points. This was the largest increase since 1994 which is consider as an aggressive move in a bid to bring the current inflation rates down. …
Continue readingFederal Reserve Raise Interest Rates and Three Times in 2017
Against everyone’s predictions, the Federal Reserve has decided to raise interest rates in the recent December Federal Reserve meeting. It was also mentioned that Fed may plan to raise interest rates three times in the …
Continue readingWhy Fed Decides Not to Increase Interest Rate
In the month of September 2016, the STI (Straits Times Index) was on a roller coaster ride. The chart below shows the STI trended down in the week of 12th to 15th September 2016 before …
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