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
• 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
• 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
• Each time the Fed raises the rate, lending rates that banks charge their customers tend to follow.
  — Jeanne Sahadi, CNN, 25 Mar. 2023
• 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
• 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
• For now, the Fed has all but abandoned its previous forecast of three quarter-point rate cuts this year.
  — Max Zahn, ABC News, 15 May 2024
• Rose argued that the Beige Book data will lead the Fed to hold rates steady for now, before cutting in September.
  — Bywill Daniel, Fortune, 20 Apr. 2024
• Read full article On Wednesday, the Fed raised its benchmark interest rate for the ninth time in just over a year.
  — Paul Wiseman, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Mar. 2023
• For nearly a year, the Fed has held interest rates at their highest level since 2001.
  — Max Zahn, ABC News, 23 May 2024
• In its report, the Fed cites research that finds that customers spend 20% more when buy now, pay later is available.
  — Cora Lewis, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Dec. 2023
• Since early last year, the Fed has rapidly raised interest rates from near zero to just over 5%.
  — Matt Egan, CNN, 26 Sep. 2023
• These reports will indicate the direction of the economy and whether the Fed is prepared for interest rate cuts.
  — Vinamrata Chaturvedi, Quartz, 28 July 2024
• The report comes with markets paying close attention to which way the Fed is headed on monetary policy.
  — Jeff Cox, CNBC, 26 July 2024

Last Updated: 24 Aug 2024