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Federal Reserve cuts interest rates a quarter point as US job market wobbles
New York Post·2025-09-18 02:02

The Federal Reserve on Wednesday cut interest rates by a quarter point to the 4% to 4.25% range – delivering highly-anticipated relief to borrowers for the first time since December 2024.But Stephen Miran – previously Trump’s economic adviser and the newest member of Fed – cast a lone dissenting vote, pushing instead for a jumbo-sized half-point rate cut.Central bankers have been delaying rate cuts over fears that tariffs could reheat inflation, which did pick up over the summer, and recent economic data ha ...