Jerome Hayden Powell3 March 2020
The Federal Open Market Committee makes an emergency one-half percentage point reduction in the federal funds target range as the emerging coronavirus outbreak creates rapidly evolving risks to economic activity.
United States of America · Economy / Federal Reserve. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.
The Federal Open Market Committee makes an emergency one-half percentage point reduction in the federal funds target range as the emerging coronavirus outbreak creates rapidly evolving risks to economic activity.
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