Fed Cuts Benchmark Interest Rate to 1%

Oct. 29 (Bloomberg) -- The Federal Reserve cut its benchmark interest rate by half a percentage point to 1 percent, matching a half-century low, in an effort to avert the worst U.S. economic downturn in the postwar era.

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