Stock market sinks as Federal Reserve signals it will remain aggressive in order to tame inflation

Technology and communication services stocks led the market's sell-off. Microsoft fell 2.8% and Google parent Alphabet was down 4.3%.

The Fed raised its short-term interest rate by half a percentage point on Wednesday, its seventh increase this year. Central banks in Europe followed along Thursday, with the European Central Bank, Bank of England and Swiss National Bank each raising their main lending rate by a half-point Thursday. European stocks fell sharply, with Germany's DAX dropping 3.3%.

The yield on the two-year Treasury, which closely tracks expectations for Fed moves, rose to 4.26% from 4.21% late Wednesday. The yield on the 10-year Treasury, which influences mortgage rates, slipped to 3.45% from 3.48%.

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Stock market sinks as Federal Reserve signals it will remain aggressive in order to tame inflationStocks fell broadly on Wall Street Thursday following the latest signal from the Federal Reserve that interest rates will need to go higher. Federal Reserve is making life worse, not better.
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Stock market sinks as Federal Reserve signals it will remain aggressive in order to tame inflationThe slide erased all the weekly gains for the major indexes.
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Stock market sinks as Federal Reserve signals it will remain aggressive in order to tame inflationThe slide erased all the weekly gains for the major indexes. How can the Federal Reserve signal it will be aggressive, when they only increased the interest rate by 05%? I would hope interest reaches 5%. It's not even 4% yet. Yeah, aggressively STUPID, which is par for Bananas Biden and Horrible Harris (bottom of the class honors}.
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