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No Jobs Data, No Fed Meeting? The Central Bank's December Interest Rate Decision Just Got Harder

Experts are speculating whether the Fed will choose to delay its meeting by a week so it can assess the job market's condition in November before deciding whether to cut rates or not.The Fed can and ... Read More

The Delayed September Jobs Report Is Out. Here's What It Means for the Fed

According to CME Group's FedWatch, futures traders are now pricing in a 58% chance the Fed will keep interest rates unchanged when it concludes its next meeting on Wednesday, December 10, up from 1% ... Read More

Fed faces another tough rate decison with inflation and job data delay

October jobs and inflation reports are canceled and November data are delayed until after the Fed's Dec. 9-10 meeting. What this may mean for rates. Read More

'Stale' September jobs data is mixed news for a divided Fed

The U.S. economy added more jobs than expected in September, but a rise in the unemployment rate and downward revisions to prior months still presented an ambiguous picture for Federal Reserve ... Read More

Fed's Daly says vulnerable job market justifies Dec. rate cut - report

Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco President Mary Daly is calling for a December interest-rate cut on the view that a steeper slowdown in the labor market is both more likely and harder to manage ... Read More

The Fed cuts interest rates again as concerns grow about the job market

The Federal Reserve cut its benchmark interest rate by a quarter percentage point Wednesday, as policymakers work to shore up the softening job market. It was the Fed's second rate cut in six weeks, ... Read More

The Fed has a big decision to make without key data. Here's what it could do.

The government shutdown has cut off economic data, just as weak job numbers and strong GDP growth present a puzzle for the central bank "The puzzle is less complete, and they will have to use their ... Read More

The U.S. jobs market was wobbling before the shutdown. Now what?

Washington standoff adds to the uncertainty and could further slow hiring Job seekers wait to speak to a recruiter from a resort in South Florida. The U.S. jobs market had started to sputter well ... Read More

This is the worst the jobs market has looked (outside of a recession) in 50 years, says Goldman Sachs, meaning bullish GDP estimates are too optimistic

Goldman Sachs’ Jan Hatzius warned that U.S. GDP estimates showing 3.8% growth in Q2 and 3.3% in Q3 may be overstated, owing to missing data from the government shutdown and weakening labor trends. He ... Read More

Federal Reserve cuts key interest rate in bid to boost job market

The Federal Reserve on Wednesday cut its benchmark interest rate for the second time this year as it seeks to boost economic activity and rejuvenate the sluggish labor market despite concerns about ... Read More