This is a comparison of Wednesday’s Federal Open Market Committee statement with the one issued after the Fed’s previous policymaking meeting in October. Text removed from the October 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. […]
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Key Points A Federal Reserve split over where its priorities should lie cut its key interest rate Wednesday in a 10-3 vote, but signaled a tougher road ahead for further reductions. The FOMC’s “dot plot” indicated just one more reduction in 2026 and another in 2027, amid considerable disagreement from members about where rates should […]
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Check out the companies making the biggest moves midday: Photronics — The maker of flat panel display components rallied more than 37% on better-than-expected results for its fiscal fourth quarter. Photronics’ first-quarter earnings guidance also exceeded estimates. Maplebear — The grocery delivery platform stumbled 6% after Amazon announced in a blog post that its same-day […]
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