This is a comparison of Wednesday’s Federal Open Market Committee statement with the one issued after the Fed’s previous policymaking meeting in June.
Text removed from the June statement is in red with a horizontal line through the middle.
Text appearing for the first time in the new statement is in red and underlined.
Black text appears in both statements.
Follow along with Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell’s press conference here.
Key Points Trump proposed a one-year 10% cap on the interest rates that American credit card companies can charge customers. Shares of Citigroup, JPMorgan Chase, Wells Fargo, Bank of America, Visa, Mastercard, American Express and Capitol One fell in response. It’s unclear how the cap would be enforced, and bank industry insiders say it would […]
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Key Points U.S. stock futures fell on Monday after the Federal Reserve revealed the DoJ had opened an investigation into its chair, Jerome Powell. The probe raises questions over the central bank’s independence from Donald Trump’s White House and concerns over the credibility of Powell’s successor. One analyst told CNBC that the probe was Trump […]
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Check out the companies making the biggest moves before the bell: Bank stocks — The group fell broadly after President Donald Trump called for credit card rates to be capped at 10% for one year . Citigroup dropped 4%, while Capital One slid nearly 10%. Bank of America , Wells Fargo and JPMorgan Chase were […]
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