{"id":1330,"date":"2007-08-07T23:32:40","date_gmt":"2007-08-07T15:32:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=1330"},"modified":"2009-04-25T16:34:41","modified_gmt":"2009-04-25T08:34:41","slug":"1325-of-the-fomc-sits-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=1330","title":{"rendered":"[1325] Of the FOMC sits today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Though reports have speculated that the Fed will leave the rate at 5.25%, recent jitters might convince the Fed to slightly trim the rate.<\/p>\n<p>The FOMC sits today. So, brace yourself.<\/p>\n<p>For me personally, the last few weeks have been miserable. What was a 20% returns portfolio now gives only nearly 1%. Sigh&#8230;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maddruid.com\/Graphics\/reusable\/the__earthinc.png?w=580\" alt=\"Mohd Hafiz Noor Shams. Some rights reserved\" \/> <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maddruid.com\/Graphics\/reusable\/the__earthinc.png?w=580\" alt=\"Mohd Hafiz Noor Shams. Some rights reserved\" \/> <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maddruid.com\/Graphics\/reusable\/the__earthinc.png?w=580\" alt=\"Mohd Hafiz Noor Shams. Some rights reserved\" \/><\/p>\n<p>p\/s \u2014 the rate stays:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>US interest rates have been kept on hold, despite mounting fears about the state of the economy.<\/p>\n<p>Analysts had widely predicted the US Federal Reserve would leave rates at 5.25% for a 13th month, and that was the unanimous verdict of the Fed panel. [<a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/business\/6934623.stm\" target=\"_blank\"><em>US interest rates left unchanged<\/em><\/a>. BBC News. August 7 2007]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Though reports have speculated that the Fed will leave the rate at 5.25%, recent jitters might convince the Fed to slightly trim the rate. The FOMC sits today. So, brace yourself. For me personally, the last few weeks have been miserable. What was a 20% returns portfolio now gives only nearly 1%. Sigh&#8230; p\/s \u2014 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[564,495,317],"class_list":["post-1330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","tag-federal-reserve","tag-interest-rate","tag-monetary-policy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1330"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3797,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1330\/revisions\/3797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}