The S&P 500 ... Federal Reserve’s decision to slash its benchmark rate by 50 basis points. Since establishing a record high in mid-July, the index has oscillated within a symmetrical triangle, a ...

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 ...

A likely reason why hedge funds have turned bearish on the S&P 500 index is that it has formed a double-top chart pattern on ...

Market analysts often use the direction of federal funds rate changes to help set their future outlooks. In January, J.P. Morgan’s 2023 market forecast predicted that the S&P 500 would gain ...

The Fed releases a report called the Summary of Economic Projections (SEP) four times per year, which tells the public where ...

U.S. stocks settled higher on Wednesday, with the S&P 500 surging more than 1% during the session. The Federal Reserve maintained the federal funds rate unchanged at a range of 4.25% to 4.5% ...

The Fed adjusts the federal funds ... the S&P 500 declined on each occasion because of those economic shocks, not because the Fed was cutting rates. However, the below chart undeniably shows ...

That decision leaves the benchmark federal funds rate parked at a range of 4.25% ... or nearly 400 points. The S&P 500 gained 1.1%, and the Nasdaq closed up 1.4%. Stocks rose even though the ...

bringing the federal funds rate to its current level. But even amid this aggressive tightening, the stock market proved resilient, with the S&P 500 Index up 38% on a total return basis (price ...

The central bank penciled in two rate cuts for 2025, but President Trump’s sweeping agenda has injected “remarkably high” uncertainty into the outlook. 8 Federal funds target rate 6 No ...