{"id":144441,"date":"2025-09-18T01:11:03","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T01:11:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/144441\/"},"modified":"2025-09-18T01:11:03","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T01:11:03","slug":"us-feds-focus-moves-from-inflation-to-jobs-as-it-makes-first-rate-cut-of-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/144441\/","title":{"rendered":"US Fed&#8217;s focus moves from inflation to jobs as it makes first rate cut of 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The US Federal Reserve on Wednesday (Sep 17) made a widely expected interest rate cut of 25 basis points, as the central bank&#8217;s focus shifted from inflation to jobs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s really the risks that we\u2019re seeing to the labour market that were the focus of today\u2019s decision,&#8221; Fed chair Jerome Powell said at a press conference following the Fed&#8217;s two-day meeting.<\/p>\n<p>The reduction puts rates in a range of 4 per cent to 4.25 per cent, the lowest level since late 2022. Follow live as we track the reactions in Asia.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The US Federal Reserve on Wednesday (Sep 17) made a widely expected interest rate cut of 25 basis&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":144442,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[84,1294,814,56,54,55,11755],"class_list":["post-144441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-interest-rates","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-us-federal-reserve"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144441\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}