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The Federal Reserve raises its benchmark interest rate by 0.75% to a target range of between 1.5% and 1.75% amid surging inflation. It is the largest interest rate increase in the United States since 1994.
2022-06-15

The United States Federal Reserve announces that it is raising interest rates by 0.5%, which is the largest interest rate hike since 2000, in order to combat growing inflation.
2022-05-4

Asian markets fall substantially and European markets open with huge losses. S&P futures fall 5%, triggering a trading halt in response to the Federal Reserve's emergency measures.
2020-03-16

Robert Kaplan, head of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, says that low bond yields suggest sluggish growth ahead for the economy of the United States.
2017-06-20

Minutes from the last meeting of the U.S. central bank, the Federal Reserve, indicate that it will end its program of bond purchases, also known as quantitative easing, this October.
2014-07-9

United States Federal Reserve hacker Lauri Love is sentenced.
2014-02-27

Ben Bernanke, chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve announces explicit ties between Fed policy on interest rates and economic goals, especially unemployment.
2012-12-12

The U.S. Supreme Court declines to take an appeal from an appellate court ruling that ordered the disclosure of information about the Federal Reserve's emergency lending to banks during the 2008 financial crisis. The Supreme Court's refusal means the ruling of the court below stands.
2011-03-21

Thomas Hoenig, a member of the Federal Reserve Board, gives some indication of the split within that body in a speech to the National Association of Realtors. Though the Fed announced a new round of quantitative easing on Wednesday, Hoenig said that the Fed risks inflation and another boom-bust.
2010-11-5

The U.S. Senate votes to give Ben Bernanke a second term as chair of the Federal Reserve.
2010-01-28