{"id":3922,"date":"2025-09-17T17:44:20","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T00:44:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whatshappeningtoday.com\/news\/2025\/09\/17\/federal-reserve-cuts-interest-rates-amid-economic-uncertainty\/"},"modified":"2025-09-17T17:44:20","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T00:44:20","slug":"federal-reserve-cuts-interest-rates-amid-economic-uncertainty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatshappeningtoday.com\/news\/2025\/09\/17\/federal-reserve-cuts-interest-rates-amid-economic-uncertainty\/","title":{"rendered":"Federal Reserve cuts interest rates amid economic uncertainty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Federal Reserve cut its benchmark interest rate for the first time this year, dropping it by a quarter point. The change could have an impact on many lending rates and the Fed suggested two more cuts by year&#8217;s end. To discuss the cut and what&#8217;s ahead, Geoff Bennett spoke with Ron Insana, a contributor to CNBC and publisher of the Substack column, The Message of the Markets.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Federal Reserve cut its benchmark interest rate for the first time this year, dropping it by a quarter point. The change could have an impact on many lending rates and the Fed suggested two more cuts by year&#8217;s end. To discuss the cut and what&#8217;s ahead, Geoff Bennett spoke with Ron Insana, a contributor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatshappeningtoday.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatshappeningtoday.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatshappeningtoday.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatshappeningtoday.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatshappeningtoday.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/whatshappeningtoday.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3922\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatshappeningtoday.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatshappeningtoday.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatshappeningtoday.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}