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World markets
Miners push ASX to record close after Fed unleashes jumbo rate cut
The Australian sharemarket broke successive records on Thursday after the Federal Reserve issued a whopper 0.5 percentage point interest rate cut.
- by Brittany Busch
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Analysis
Interest rates
Bullock might have to change her tune after America’s big-bang rate cut
The US Federal Reserve has gone big with its rate cut – exposing the problems facing the Reserve Bank of Australia in its inflation fight.
- by Shane Wright
Opinion
Interest rates
How Trump could destroy the Fed’s grand plan
The Federal Reserve has started its rate-cutting cycle with a bang as it tries to help keep the US out of a recession. That plan could be derailed by November’s election.
- by Stephen Bartholomeusz
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Interest rates
US cuts interest rates, turning up heat on RBA
America’s central bank has cut US interest rates by half a percentage point. The move amps up the pressure on the Reserve Bank to cut rates in Australia.
- by Shane Wright
Cut priced in: Markets eagerly wait for Fed’s view of the economy
With annual inflation easing in the US, financial markets have priced in a 25 basis point cut to the cash rate at the Fed’s next meeting this week – the last before the November presidential election.
- by Sumeyya Ilanbey
Opinion
Interest rates
The Fed may have left it too late to cut interest rates as recession fears grow
Jerome Powell has signalled that the Fed will soon cut US rates for the first time since it began raising them aggressively more than two years ago. It may have missed its moment.
- by Stephen Bartholomeusz
Fed chair Jerome Powell: ‘The time has come’ for interest rate cuts
The US Federal Reserve is ready to cut interest rates, confident that inflation is easing to normal levels and wary of any more slowing in the job market.
- by Rachel Siegel
‘Time has come’ to cut interest rates, Fed Chair Jerome Powell says
“The time has come for policy to adjust,” Powell said in a highly anticipated speech to the Kansas City Fed’s annual economic conference.
- by Howard Schneider and Ann Saphir
Opinion
Global economy
China can’t rescue the global economy this time
The global economy is sputtering and an “enormous error” in the US just ramped up the pressure. We can’t rely on China to fix things.
- by Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
Analysis
Global economy
The Rocky Mountains meeting that has the world on edge
The world’s central bankers are gathering in Wyoming this week. They find themselves more divided than perhaps any time since before the pandemic.
- by Swati Pandey, Mark Schroers, Tom Rees and Garfield Reynolds
Opinion
US election
Trump as de facto Fed chair is a dangerous idea
Donald Trump thinks that his experience as a reality TV star and casino and real estate investor gives him a superior sense of monetary policy.
- by Jonathan Levin
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