How to Use Fed in a Sentence

Fed

noun
  • Chief among them is that no one can be sure about when Fed will be done hiking rates.
    — Stan Choe, ajc, 2023-06-08
  • That seems to be what the error-prone Fed is intent on giving us.
    — Steve H. Hanke, National Review, 2023-05-04
  • This is the first Fed survey of bank lending to be released since these banks failed.
    — Nate Dicamillo, Quartz, 2023-05-08
  • But Fed officials are taking the data with a grain of salt.
    — Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN, 2023-07-15
  • His attacks on Fed chief Jerome Powell are causing tremors around the world.
    — Robert B. Reich, Hartford Courant, 2025-04-30
  • Hopes for no more Fed rate increases had financial markets around the world ebullient.
    — Stan Choe The Associated Press, Arkansas Online, 2023-11-03
  • But abnormally strong hiring alone may not be enough to dissuade Fed officials who want to hit pause.
    — Jeanna Smialek, New York Times, 2023-06-02
  • But a recent survey of banking conditions from the Dallas Fed was bleak.
    — Rachel Siegel, Washington Post, 2023-05-02
  • The yield on the two-year Treasury, which more closely tracks expectations for Fed moves, held steadier.
    — Stan Choe, Los Angeles Times, 2025-02-20
  • But most Fed watchers expect the central bank to forgo another hike at its next meeting in mid-June.
    — Christopher Rugaber, USA TODAY, 2023-05-26
  • Many market observers are expecting interest rate cuts as soon as a Fed meeting in March.
    — Max Zahn, ABC News, 2024-01-17
  • The New York Fed's survey of manufacturers showed the same.
    — Neil Irwin, Axios, 2025-02-20
  • Minutes from the Fed’s last meeting showed that Fed officials were split on whether to raise its benchmark borrowing rate.
    — Matt Ott, BostonGlobe.com, 2023-05-25
  • If this disinflation trend persists, the first Fed rate cut could come before the end of the year as anticipated.
    — Orphe Divounguy | The Center Square Contributor, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 2024-07-01
  • The courts have never weighed exactly what that means because no president has sought to remove a Fed governor, until now.
    — Ella Lee, The Hill, 28 Aug. 2025
  • On Fed Reddit, some wondered if Musk would make Tesla-only lanes to reduce congestion.
    — Antonia Hitchens, The New Yorker, 2025-02-21
  • Just a week earlier, Fed Chair Jerome Powell hinted that easing rates might soon be appropriate.
    — Benzinga, Freep.com, 30 Aug. 2025
  • On the other hand, Fed chair Jerome Powell was also remarkably upbeat about the economy’s health because of the jobs market.
    — Q.ai - Powering A Personal Wealth Movement, Forbes, 2023-05-05
  • The Jackson Hole comments from Fed Chair Powell were just what the stock market bulls were hoping for and the bearish investors had feared.
    — Tom Aspray, Forbes.com, 31 Aug. 2025
  • But while economists and Fed officials are cheered by that trend, ordinary Americans vividly recall a not-so-distant past when many things were cheaper.
    — Christine Romans, NBC News, 2023-11-08
  • Investors will pay close attention to Fed Chair Jerome Powell's remarks, seeking clues on where interest rates might be headed later this year.
    — Harold Maass, The Week, 2023-06-14
  • The Dallas Fed survey includes a retail section that is based on information from respondents in the retail and wholesale sectors only.
    — Dallas News, 2020-12-30
  • Real-world impact Fed up with the stonewalling, state and federal agencies have sued San Francisco in hopes of forcing the city to modernize its wastewater system.
    — Tom Philp, The Mercury News, 2024-11-06
  • But Fed Chair Jerome Powell has signaled the central bank is closely watching the labor market for signs of weakness, which could prompt additional rate cuts.
    — Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 2025-03-07
  • Robert Eisenbeis, who previously served as director of research at the Atlanta Fed, told Fortune that in the event of a tie vote, the federal funds rate would stay the same.
    — Jason Ma, Fortune, 30 Aug. 2025
  • Trump has complained repeatedly about Fed Chairman Jerome Powell not lowering interest rates fast enough to spur the economy.
    — Maureen Groppe, USA Today, 1 Sep. 2025
  • Smaller Fed banks like Minneapolis, Cleveland, Kansas City or Dallas could not.
    — Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 31 Aug. 2025
  • Fed Chair Jerome Powell delivered remarks at a central banking forum in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, last week that hinted potential rate cuts could be on the horizon.
    — John Towfighi, CNN Money, 29 Aug. 2025
  • President Lyndon Johnson harassed then-Fed Chair William McChesney Martin in the mid-1960s to keep rates low as Johnson ramped up government spending on the Vietnam War and antipoverty programs.
    — Christopher Rugaber, Chicago Tribune, 31 Aug. 2025
  • Indeed, Fed Governor Christopher Waller, a candidate to replace Powell next year as chair, suggested last week that an especially weak August jobs report could warrant a half-percentage point cut in September instead of the Fed’s traditional approach of moving in quarter-point increments.
    — Kevin Stankiewicz, CNBC, 1 Sep. 2025

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