🔥 Fed interest rate decision ‼️

Why investors care

President Trump has been putting the US central bank under intense pressure to lower interest rates, going so far as to threaten its Chair Jerome Powell with the sack. He sees them as a way to mitigate the inevitable economic slowdown, as his tariff policies drive up consumer costs and stall global trade. Traditionally, investors also tend to react positively to lower interest rates. However, there’s added spice this month as Trump’s threat to fire Powell appeared to have a negative impact on markets in April, so if rates do stay the same we could have more of the same there too.