{"id":75000,"date":"2026-06-17T13:55:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T18:55:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/17\/federal-reserve-holds-interest-rates-steady-for-fourth-time-this-year\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T13:55:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T18:55:12","slug":"federal-reserve-holds-interest-rates-steady-for-fourth-time-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/17\/federal-reserve-holds-interest-rates-steady-for-fourth-time-this-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Federal Reserve holds interest rates steady for fourth time this year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US central bank makes decision in first meeting under new chair and Trump appointee Kevin Warsh<\/p>\n<p>The US Federal Reserve left interest rates unchanged for the fourth time this year after its first meeting under new chair, Kevin Warsh, a Donald Trump appointee who has taken over the central bank during a tumultuous time for the US economy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEconomic activity is expanding at a solid pace despite elevated uncertainty that owes, in part, to the conflict in the Middle East,\u201d the Fed\u2019s open market committee said in a short statement. \u201cProductivity growth and capital investment are strong. Job gains have kept pace with the workforce, and the unemployment rate has changed little.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2026\/jun\/17\/federal-reserve-interest-rates\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US central bank makes decision in first meeting under new chair and Trump appointee Kevin Warsh The US Federal Reserve left interest rates unchanged for the fourth time this year after its first meeting under new chair, Kevin Warsh, a Donald Trump appointee who has taken over the central bank during a tumultuous time for &#8230; <a title=\"Federal Reserve holds interest rates steady for fourth time this year\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/17\/federal-reserve-holds-interest-rates-steady-for-fourth-time-this-year\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Federal Reserve holds interest rates steady for fourth time this year\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75000\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}