{"id":548981,"date":"2026-03-18T19:30:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T19:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/548981\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T19:30:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T19:30:08","slug":"federal-reserve-holds-rates-steady-sticks-with-single-rate-cut-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/548981\/","title":{"rendered":"Federal Reserve holds rates steady, sticks with single rate cut in 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Washington | The Federal Reserve held interest rates steady and projected higher inflation, steady unemployment and only a single rate cut for the year as officials took stock of economic risks from the US and Israeli war with Iran.<\/p>\n<p>New projections from US central bank policymakers showed the Fed\u2019s benchmark overnight interest rate would fall by just a quarter of a percentage point by the end of this year, with no hint of the timing of such a move. That view was unchanged from previous projections and remains out of step with President Donald Trump\u2019s demand for a sharp drop in borrowing costs.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"_137dbe642694dac0-source\">Reuters<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Washington | The Federal Reserve held interest rates steady and projected higher inflation, steady unemployment and only a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":548982,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[64,63,99,164],"class_list":["post-548981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-business","tag-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=548981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548981\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/548982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}