How to Use the Fed in a Sentence

the Fed

noun

• In 2017, Trump tapped him to lead the Fed for his first four-year term.
  — Paolo Confino, Fortune, 16 Mar. 2024
• That's prompted the Fed to pause any move to ease rates.
  — Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 20 Mar. 2024
• Hopes that the Fed was poised to cut rates have been put on hold for now.
  — Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 14 Apr. 2024
• Over the last year, the Fed raised rates from nearly zero to 4.75%.
  — Michelle Cheng, Quartz, 22 Mar. 2023
• How far will mortgage rates fall when the Fed cuts rates?
  — Lucia Suarez Sang, CBS News, 9 Apr. 2024
• That could cause the Fed to not cut rates and could cause investors to become spooked.
  — Zachary Halaschak, Washington Examiner, 28 Dec. 2023
• Powell said the Fed’s best move amid Trump’s chaos is to keep rates on hold for longer.
  — Bryan Mena, CNN Money, 4 Apr. 2025
• Wall Street and the Fed have also been confused this year.
  — Paolo Confino, Fortune, 28 May 2024
• Powell has used the summit in the past to hint at the Fed’s next policy move.
  — Krystal Hur, CNN, 16 Aug. 2024
• But their markets have cooled as the Fed has raised rates and home builders have caught up to demand.
  — Andrew Van Dam, Washington Post, 24 Nov. 2023
• Stimulus from Congress and the Fed was too small to fix it.
  — Dylan Matthews, Vox, 16 Aug. 2024
• But the Fed’s control over longer-term rates is far less direct.
  — Terry Savage, Chicago Tribune, 10 June 2025
• But to ease its target rates, the Fed had to again create money.
  — Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 11 May 2025
• Trump may already be eyeing a replacement for the chair of the Fed.
  — Yeo Boon Ping, CNBC, 12 June 2025
• For now, investors are reassessing when the Fed might be ready to cut rates.
  — Rafael Nam, NPR, 10 Apr. 2024
• For now, the main quandary before the Fed stems from the wide range of possible outcomes, the experts said.
  — Max Zahn, ABC News, 19 Mar. 2025
• Powell has served on the Fed’s Board of Governors since 2012.
  — Zachary Folk, Forbes.com, 16 July 2025
• At the same time, the Fed last year shifted from buying Treasuries to shrinking its stash of U.S. debt.
  — Jeff Sommer, New York Times, 27 Oct. 2023
• In other words, the Fed cut but interest rates still rose.
  — Brett Owens, Forbes, 8 Jan. 2025
• This suggests that the Fed’s monetary stance is about right—not too loose, not too tight.
  — WSJ, 15 Jan. 2024
• Traders now see a 17% expectation that the Fed will cut rates in March, compared to 46% a week ago.
  — Krystal Hur, CNN, 5 Feb. 2024
• The market odds are for a 25-basis-point cut when the Fed’s two-day meeting ends Thursday.
  — Jeff Marks,morgan Chittum, CNBC, 1 Nov. 2024
• Each time the Fed raises the rate, lending rates that banks charge their customers tend to follow.
  — Jeanne Sahadi, CNN, 25 Mar. 2023
• That’s down from 2.3% in September and is almost right on the Fed’s +2.0% per year target.
  — Robert Barone, Forbes, 2 Nov. 2024
• Sweet had expected the reading to fall to 2.2%, close to the Fed’s 2% goal, without the import duties.
  — Paul Davidson, USA TODAY, 1 Feb. 2025
• Given the risks and the uncertainty around all aspects of the war, Kashkari said the Fed may even have to raise rates.
  — Christopher Cann, USA Today, 4 May 2026
• Trump has criticized Powell over the Fed’s rate policy.
  — Emily Guskin, ABC News, 3 May 2026
• Nardini says with the Fed currently in hold mode, the first major risk for bond investors is duration.
  — Krysta Escobar, CNBC, 2 May 2026
• What that means is that the gap between them and a CD could narrow or widen depending on what the Fed does next.
  — Angelica Leicht, CBS News, 1 May 2026
• The jump in gas prices has pushed inflation further away from the Fed’s 2% target.
  — Christopher Rugaber, Los Angeles Times, 1 May 2026