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Fed meeting likely to produce first rate cut of 2025. Will it keep going?
The Federal Reserve is widely expected this week to make its first interest rate cut of 2025, but the bigger question for investors is how many more cuts could be on the way as the central bank contends with a weak job market, sticky inflation, and mounting White House pressure. One clue will come in the form of the Fed's "dot plot," a chart updated quarterly that shows each official's prediction about the direction of the central bank's benchmark interest rate. The last dot plot, released in June, revealed a consensus among Fed officials for two cuts this year amid uncertainties about how the Trump ... (full story)
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