cm0002@lemmy.world to United States | News & Politics@midwest.social · 19 hours agoTrump statue holding Bitcoin appears in US Capitolwww.cnn.comexternal-linkmessage-square6fedilinkarrow-up151arrow-down12cross-posted to: [email protected][email protected]
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minus-squareViking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up17·18 hours ago The temporary statue was unveiled just hours before the Federal Reserve’s interest rate decision was announced WHAT decision? Way to drop the ball on the only potentially important bit of news mentioned, CNN! 🤦
minus-squareDrusas@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up6·13 hours agoThey reduced interest rates by a quarter of a percent.
minus-squaretheneverfox@pawb.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·11 hours agoAnd the dollar instantly fell 1/3 of a percent These little percentages become huge when you multiply them by tens of trillions
minus-squareadhocfungus@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up7·18 hours agoThat’s what I wanted to know too. My emergency fund is all in T-bills since the pandemic started. It looks like they dropped it a quarter of a percent, so now it’s roughly 4%.
WHAT decision? Way to drop the ball on the only potentially important bit of news mentioned, CNN! 🤦
They reduced interest rates by a quarter of a percent.
And the dollar instantly fell 1/3 of a percent
These little percentages become huge when you multiply them by tens of trillions
That’s what I wanted to know too. My emergency fund is all in T-bills since the pandemic started.
It looks like they dropped it a quarter of a percent, so now it’s roughly 4%.