{"id":48841,"date":"2021-07-28T22:08:35","date_gmt":"2021-07-28T18:08:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/?p=48841"},"modified":"2021-07-28T22:16:17","modified_gmt":"2021-07-28T18:16:17","slug":"federal-reserve-maintains-interest-rates-and-asset-purchases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/federal-reserve-maintains-interest-rates-and-asset-purchases\/07\/28\/market-updates\/","title":{"rendered":"Federal Reserve Maintains Interest Rates and Level of Asset Purchases"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The United States Federal Reserve announced on Wednesday that it has decided to maintain interest rates unchanged at a 0-0.25% range, and the current pace of asset purchases at $120 billion a month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Fed will continue to increase its holdings of Treasury securities by $80 billion per month and mortgage-backed securities by $40 billion per month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The decision was announced following a two-day meeting for the Federal Reserve Open Market Committee (FOMC) that concluded today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System also voted unanimously to establish the interest rate paid on reserve balances at 0.15%, effective July 29, 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States Federal Reserve announced on Wednesday that it has decided to maintain interest rates unchanged at a 0-0.25% range, and the current pace of asset purchases at $120 billion a month. The Fed will continue to increase its holdings of Treasury securities by $80 billion per month and mortgage-backed securities by $40 billion &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":32921,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4707,36],"tags":[6867],"class_list":["post-48841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-breaking-news","category-market-updates","tag-federal-reserve"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48841"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48846,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48841\/revisions\/48846"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}