US Federal Reserve announces ‘jumbo’ rates cut of 0.5 per cent as inflation eases | ABC News

The US Federal Reserve has slashed interest rates by 0.5 per cent, marking its first cut since the end of the pandemic. The US central bank’s chairperson Jerome Powell says signs that inflation has come under control have led to the board’s decision but the country’s interest rates are not on a ‘preset course’.

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