📅 FOMC Meeting – June 18, 2025

🏦 Federal Reserve Decision

🔒 Interest rates held steady at 4.25%–4.50%

📉 No rate cut yet — fourth straight meeting with no change

📊 Inflation still above 3%, Fed wants it near 2%

📅 Fed signals 2 rate cuts likely later this year (total 50 bps)

🧠 Fed’s stance: “Data will guide decisions”

⚠️ Inflation + uncertainty = caution

🗣️ Jerome Powell: “We’re staying focused — not political”

🇺🇸 Trump criticized no cuts & hinted at changing leadership 😬

💬 Fed replied: “We’re independent — no political pressure”

📈 GDP forecast lowered to 1.4%

📉 Unemployment expected to rise to 4.5%