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Time now for the news. Here's Kent Covington.

The Federal Reserve is cutting its key interest rate by a quarter point, the first cut since December.

Chairman Jerome Powell said the board decided that under the circumstances, the time is right to make a change.

In the near term, risks to inflation are tilted to the upside and risks to employment to the downside.

A challenging situation.

When our goals are in tension like this, our framework calls for us to balance both sides of our dual mandate.

And with that balanced approach, the Fed also projects it will cut interest rates twice more this year.

Until now, Powell and most of the Fed board had been united in holding off on rate

cuts as they evaluated the impact of new trade tariffs and other policy shifts.

Higher tariffs have begun to push up prices in some categories of goods, but their overall

effects on economic activity and inflation remain to be seen. President Trump welcomed the Fed's

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