CONCLUDED Stock Market News From Oct. 29, 2025: Stocks and Bonds Take a Hit Last Updated: 17 hours ago Market Rally Pauses After Four Days of Gains Topics Memberships Subscribe to Barron's Tools Customer Service By Karishma Vanjani The stock market's rally took a pause after four straight days of gains as Wall Street reassessed its rosy predictions on interest-rate cuts. The S&P 500 ended the day flat. Dow was down 0.2%, or 74 points, snapping its four-day winning streak. The tech-heavy Nasdaq managed to ek ...

CONCLUDED Stock Market News From Oct. 29, 2025: Stocks and Bonds Take a Hit Last Updated: 4 hours ago Powell Weighs in on Balance Sheet By Karishma Vanjani The Federal Reserve is planning to change its balance sheet to more closely match the maturity of the Treasury market. It's a shift that investors won't notice, according to Fed Chair Jerome Powell. Currently, the central bank's balance sheet has a weighted average maturity around 107 months. As of this summer, the average maturity of the marketable debt ...

CONCLUDED Fed Meeting Today: Interest Rates, Quantitative Tightening, Powell Speech, and More Last Updated: 3 hours ago Higher-Income Consumers Are Spending, Lower- Income Households Are Hurting By Sabrina Escobar Saved Articles Watchlist Newsletters Video Center Spending is still powering the U.S. economy as consumer balance sheets remain healthy. "While some households are clearly under stress, in the aggregate, households are negotiating financially relatively manageable levels of debt,†Powell said. Yet, ...

CONCLUDED Last Updated: Updated 3 hours ago Topics Memberships Fed Meeting Today: Interest Rates, Quantitative Tightening, Powell Speech, and More How the Fed's End to QT Might Be a Boost for the Treasury By Karishma Vanjani The Federal Reserve announced on Wednesday that it plans to "conclude the reduction of its aggregate securities holdings on December 1.†That means that the Fed will take the money it gets as debt it holds matures, plugging the cash back into the market. It will keep the central bank's ...

CONCLUDED Stock Market News From Oct. 29, 2025: Stocks and Bonds Take a Hit Last Updated: 4 hours ago Rate Sensitive Stocks Slide as Investors Question December Rate Cut Customer Service Customer Center By Josh Schafer Entering Wednesday's FOMC meeting markets were confident the Federal Reserve would be cutting twice more this year. One 25 basis point interest-rate cut was expected during this week's October meeting and another was anticipated at the central bank's December meeting. That's now coming into q ...

CONCLUDED Stock Market News From Oct. 29, 2025: Stocks and Bonds Take a Hit Last Updated: 4 hours ago Bitcoin Tumbles After Rate Cut. Risk Off in Crypto? By Paul R. La Monica Another interest rate cut in December "is not a foregone conclusion,†according to Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell. That comment sparked a sell-off in stocks–and equities weren't the only "risk on†asset that took a tumble. Bitcoin prices, which were already down Wednesday, fell even further during Powell's press conference. Bitco ...

Powell Says Rising Stocks Aren't 'Driving Factor' In Policy Moves By Josh Schafer Prior to Wednesday's Federal Reserve policy meeting, the S&P 500 passed 6,900 for the first time ever as Nvidia became the first company with a market capitalization above $5 trillion. The index has risen almost 17% year to date. When asked about the AI-focused stock-market rally, Powell didn't agree that the rise in stocks is playing a key role in the Fed's decision-making. "That's a factor in everyone's assessment of the eco ...

市场表现 - 标普500指数下跌近0.4% [2] - 道琼斯工业平均指数下跌0.3% [2] - 纳斯达克综合指数基本持平，微涨不到0.1% [2] 政策动态 - 美联储主席杰罗姆·鲍威尔表示官员们对于12月会议如何推进货币政策存在“强烈分歧的观点” [1] - 鲍威尔称12月会议进一步降低政策利率并非既定事实，远非如此 [1]

CONCLUDED Fed Meeting Today: Interest Rates, Quantitative Tightening, Powell Speech, and More Last Updated: Updated 4 hours ago Miran Wanted a Bigger Rate Cut–Schmid Wanted None By Sabrina Escobar Stephen Miran (L) and Jeffrey Schmid (R) (Getty Images(1); Bloomberg (1)) Fed governor Stephen Miran and Kansas City Fed President Jeffrey Schmid were the sole dissenting votes at the October FOMC meeting. Miran voted against the committee's decision to cut interest rates by a quarter of a percentage point, prefer ...

CONCLUDED Stock Market News From Oct. 29, 2025: Stocks and Bonds Take a Hit Last Updated: Subscribe to Barron's Tools Customer Service 5 hours ago Treasuries Sell Off Across the Board By Karishma Vanjani U.S. government debt was selling off after the Fed's decision to take rates even lower. The 2-year yield, which closely tracks interest rates, rose by 0.033 percentage points. Higher yields mean prices of bonds have dropped given the two move in the opposite direction. It's a small move up, but still surpri ...