2025-10-30
14 分钟Good morning.
It's Thursday, October 30th.
I'm Shamita Basu.
This is Apple News Today.
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But first,
the Federal Reserve made another interest rate cut for the second month in a row yesterday.
The quarter point reduction was expected and long priced into market expectations.
What was more surprising was Fed Chair Jay Powell's warning on the road ahead.
In the committee's discussions at this meeting,
there were strongly differing views about how to proceed in December.
A further reduction in the policy rate at the December meeting is not a foregone conclusion.
Far from it.
His wording here, characterized by the Wall Street Journal as an unusually pointed intervention,
was seen as an attempt to rein in markets that had already begun to price in another rate cut,
something President Trump is eager to see.
Wall Street dipped following Powell's comments.
Powell also acknowledged uncertainty owing to the shutdown,