{"id":50457,"date":"2026-06-18T00:44:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T00:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=50457"},"modified":"2026-06-18T00:44:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T00:44:10","slug":"federal-reserve-holds-interest-rates-steady","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=50457","title":{"rendered":"Federal Reserve Holds Interest Rates Steady"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<p aria-live=\"assertive\" class=\"css-1dv1kvn\">new video loaded: Federal Reserve Holds Interest Rates Steady<\/p>\n<p>transcript<\/p>\n<p><span>Back<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1nng8z9\">transcript<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"css-8p0vwh\">Federal Reserve Holds Interest Rates Steady<\/h2>\n<h4 class=\"css-qsd3hm\">In his first news conference as the Federal Reserve chair, Kevin Warsh announced that interest rates would remain unchanged.<\/h4>\n<p class=\"css-8hvvyd\">The committee decided to maintain the target range for the Fed funds rate at 3.5 to 3.75 percent. We recognize that inflation has been running well ahead of the Fed\u2019s long-stated inflation goal of 2 percent. That\u2019s been going on for more than five years. Persistently high prices are a burden for the American people. But the recent past need not be prologue. Thank you all very much.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"css-hple31\">In his first news conference as the Federal Reserve chair, Kevin Warsh announced that interest rates would remain unchanged.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Alisa Shodiyev Kaff<\/p>\n<p>June 17, 2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>new video loaded: Federal Reserve Holds Interest Rates Steady transcript Back transcript Federal Reserve Holds Interest Rates Steady In his first news conference as the Federal Reserve chair, Kevin Warsh announced that interest rates would remain unchanged. The committee decided to maintain the target range for the Fed funds rate at 3.5 to 3.75 percent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50458,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[319,518,519,520,517,9020],"class_list":{"0":"post-50457","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-crime-justice","8":"tag-federal","9":"tag-holds","10":"tag-interest","11":"tag-rates","12":"tag-reserve","13":"tag-steady"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50457\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/50458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}