Fed Hacks Rates, Dow Drops
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Bernanke chops 3/4 of a point, but the markets fall in early trading anyway.
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Wary investors sent stocks lower Thursday after a pair of European central banks raised interest rates, increasing expectations on Wall Street that the Federal Reserve would follow suit next week.
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A second aggressive rate cut in just over a week on Wednesday from the Federal Reserve failed to help Wall Street stocks, while the dollar came under pressure and gold set a record high.
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Investor's Business Daily - Even before Tuesday's 0.75% slash in the federal funds rate by the Federal Reserve, mortgage rates had been sliding. Last week's cut pulled down home loan rates more.
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The U.S. Federal Reserve on Tuesday slashed the benchmark federal funds rate by a half-percentage point in a bold bid to buffer the economy from a housing slump and related financial market turbulence.
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Stocks slid at the open on Friday as a stronger-than-expected reading in a gauge of consumer prices fueled uncertainty about prospects for further interest rate cuts by the Federal Reserve.
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Recession worries pushed stocks lower on Tuesday, but the decline was shallower than feared at first as an emergency interest-rate cut by the Federal Reserve helped ease investor fears and stabilize global markets.
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Wall Street was sharply negative Wednesday afternoon, as the Fed hinted at more rate cuts.
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Stocks fell on Tuesday after signs of strength in the services sector and comments from Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke all but eliminated expectations of an interest rate cut this year.
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The stock market stumbled as Wall Street seemed to grasp that the Federal Reserve is in no hurry to lower interest rates.
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US stocks skidded but averted a meltdown Tuesday amid a global financial market panic that prompted an unprecedented 75-basis-point rate cut by the Federal Reserve.
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The Federal Reserve on Tuesday  slashed benchmark U.S. interest rates by a hefty three-quarters  of a percentage point in an emergency bid to lend support to a  weak U.S. economy faced with increasing turmoil in global  financial markets.
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An emergency U.S. interest rate cut  last week rekindled perceptions the Federal Reserve has a bias  to protect the stock market, and a French bank trading scandal  has made matters worse.
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A vicious rout of global stock markets at the start of the week sent the Federal Reserve scrambling to slash U.S. interest rates on Tuesday and the White House and Congress sped up work on tax cuts and other steps to ward off a possible recession.
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Federal Reserve chops another half point off interest rates - to 3% - in bid to head off economic recession
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The Federal Reserve slashes interest rates to 3.5%, as it aims to reduce the risk of a US recession.
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Recession worries pushed U.S. stocks lower on Tuesday, but the decline was shallower than feared at first as an emergency interest rate cut by the Federal Reserve helped to ease investor fears and stabilize global markets.