yet the S&P 500 turned sharply lower in Wednesday afternoon stock market action. The Fed projections would see the federal funds rate cut to just below 4% next year, implying moderate additional ...

U.S. stocks were falling across the board on Wednesday afternoon after the Federal Reserve cut its federal funds rate ... for further rate reductions in 2025. All the 11 S&P 500's sectors were ...

Officials started cutting the federal funds rate in September ... The following chart shows how the S&P 500, an index widely regarded as the single best gauge for the overall U.S. stock market ...

Since the Fed began its rate cuts back in September, the S&P 500 has climbed almost 5%, led by the Consumer Discretionary space, which has surged 16.1% over that time. Communication Services (+9.2 ...

with the S&P 500 already up 26% year-to-date. The Federal Reserve is widely expected to cut interest rates by 25 basis points during its Dec. 18 meeting, with fed funds futures pricing in a nearly ...

Since the FOMC is responsible for setting interest rate policy at the Fed, Wall Street watches each SEP very closely. In the September SEP, the FOMC forecast five potential interest rate cuts in 2025, ...

The Federal Reserve ... every rate-cutting cycle since the year 2000 was followed by a temporary dip in the S&P 500: Data by YCharts. The three cutting cycles in the above chart were triggered ...