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Fed Cuts Rates Amid Data “Fog” – Stocks Hit Record Highs as More Easing Likely

Fed Injects $125B in Five Days as Banks Tap SRF; John Williams Signals Balance‑Sheet Expansion Could Be Next (November 7, 2025)

Dateline — November 7, 2025. The Federal Reserve’s money‑market backstop has roared to life at month‑end and into this week. Banks drew on the Standing Repo Facility (SRF) in record size at the turn of October, part of a roughly $125 billion burst of short‑term liquidity across five trading days aimed at smoothing funding markets and averting a broader credit squeeze. Today, New York Fed President John Williams said the Fed may soon need to rebuild reserves by gradually purchasing assets—a technical step for liquidity management, not a policy pivot—after the Fed’s decision last week to halt quantitative tightening (QT) on December 1.  Federal Reserve+3The Economic Times+3ABC+3 What happened Why
7 November 2025
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Stocks Skyrocket to Record Highs as Fed Set to Cut Rates Again

Fed’s $50 Billion Repo Bailout: Credit Crunch Canary or Just Month-End Jitters?

Fed Pumps Billions to Calm a Cash Crunch Late last week, U.S. money markets showed unusual signs of strain. On Friday, October 31, banks and dealers suddenly found cash in short supply to meet their routine funding needs. Overnight lending rates – the cost for banks to borrow short-term cash – surged above the Federal Reserve’s target range, indicating that banks were scrambling for dollars reuters.com. In response, the Federal Reserve executed a massive repo operation to flood the system with cash and stabilize rates. In a repo (short for repurchase agreement), a bank can borrow overnight from the Fed
5 November 2025
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Fed Cuts Rates Amid Data “Fog” – Stocks Hit Record Highs as More Easing Likely

Fed Cuts Rates Again but Powell Drops a Bombshell – Markets React to Fed’s November Moves

Federal Reserve Developments and Market Reaction in Early November 2025 Fed’s Latest Policy Moves: Rate Cut and Liquidity Support In the Fed’s highly anticipated late-October meeting, officials voted 10–2 to cut the federal funds rate by 0.25%, setting a new target range of 3.75% to 4.00% reuters.com federalreserve.gov. This marked the second rate reduction of 2025, following a similar cut in September. The move was widely expected and intended “to temper any further weakening of the job market,” according to Reuters reuters.com. Recent data (before the data blackout) showed job growth losing steam and unemployment inching up, so the Fed
3 November 2025
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Fed Cuts Rates Amid Data “Fog” – Stocks Hit Record Highs as More Easing Likely

Fed Cuts Rates Amid Data “Fog” – Stocks Hit Record Highs as More Easing Likely

Fed Cuts Rates Despite Missing Data The Federal Open Market Committee’s October 28–29 meeting concluded with a widely anticipated quarter-point rate cut, bringing the target interest rate down to roughly 3.8% ts2.tech. Economists were nearly unanimous in predicting this move reuters.com, as the Fed had telegraphed an easing bias in advance. It marks the second reduction in 2025, following an initial cut in September. The Fed is proceeding with caution, however. Officials describe an “increasingly cloudy” economic outlook apnews.com – a haze compounded by the absence of government data during the ongoing shutdown. Since October 1, key indicators like the
29 October 2025
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Bank of Canada Cuts Key Rate to 2.25% – Is This the End of Rate Cuts?

Bank of Canada Cuts Key Rate to 2.25% – Is This the End of Rate Cuts?

The Bank of Canada (BoC) cut its overnight rate by 25 basis points to 2.25% on Oct. 29, 2025 reuters.com, the second straight cut in as many meetings. Governor Tiff Macklem signaled this might be the last cut for now, saying policy is “about the right level to keep inflation close to 2% while helping the economy” canadianmortgagetrends.com. The BoC’s new forecasts show sluggish growth (only 1.2% in 2025 and 1.1% in 2026) and inflation near 2% reuters.com canadianmortgagetrends.com. Markets rallied: the Canadian dollar firmed to about C$1.3915 per USD reuters.com and the TSX Composite hovered around 30,350 points (after
29 October 2025
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August PCE Inflation Rises Again – Is the Fed’s Rate Cut Plan in Jeopardy?

August PCE Inflation Rises Again – Is the Fed’s Rate Cut Plan in Jeopardy?

PCE Inflation Report and Market Impact on September 26, 2025 PCE Inflation Climbs in August 2025 – Key Numbers The latest Personal Consumption Expenditures (PCE) inflation report shows that price pressures picked up slightly in August. According to the Commerce Department data released on September 26, the overall PCE price index was up 2.7% in August 2025 compared to a year earlier wtop.com. That marks a gentle increase from the 2.6% annual inflation rate in July, and is the fastest year-over-year PCE inflation reading since February. In practical terms, American consumers in August paid on average 2.7% more for the
26 September 2025
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