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What some are labeling a jumbo sized interest rate cut by the Federal Reserve, the Fed moving to slash

short-term interest rate targets by half a percent, something investors were increasingly

expecting amid concerns about a slowing jobs market. were increasingly Jerome Powell and other policy makers. Inflation has been improving significantly.

Interest rates have been already, the market's taking it down for them.

But employment was the big one, and it's starting to look pretty soft,

and this is what Jerome Powell wants to head off

cut off at the past so those are the key factors in determining whether you go the full

half percent market reaction was fairly muted the Fed move will start to lead to lower borrowing costs for consumers.

Speaking at the end of today's meeting, Powell said the U.S. economy is in a good place.

Adding our decision to today is designed to keep it there.

For a second day, communication devices belonging to members of Hezbollah exploded in Lebanon and

Syria since yesterday more than two dozen people have died, thousands have been hurt.

Hezbollah blames Israel.

MPRs Michelle Kellman report Secretary of State

Anthony Blinken's been visiting Egypt whose governments

warn the Middle East is on the brink of a regional war.

Secretary of State Anthony Blinkinkin has spent months trying to prevent a regional war

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