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NEW YORK (Reuters) -Futures on the federal funds rate, which measure the cost of unsecured overnight loans between banks, priced in on Wednesday that the Federal Reserve will hold the overnight benchmark rate steady in January, after it lowered rates by 25 basis points at the end of its two-day meeting. Rate futures also factored in about 33 bps in cuts in 2025, down from 49 bps immediately after the Fed statement, LSEG calculations showed. The Fed on Wednesday also released new estimates on rate forecasts, also known as the "dot plot", which called for two quarter-point rate cuts next year.
The reduction by the central bank's Federal Open Market Committee in the benchmark policy rate to the 4.25%-4.50% range was opposed by Cleveland Fed President Beth Hammack, who preferred to leave the policy rate unchanged. U.S. central bankers now project they will make just two quarter-percentage-point rate reductions by the end of 2025. Fed Chair Jerome Powell said at a press conference after the release of the FOMC statement that it's too soon to say what President-elect Donald Trump's proposed economic policies will do to the economy or how that might bear on Fed policies.
