The Street
By Charley Blaine The people at the Federal Reserve charged with fighting inflation and, one hopes, ensuring full employment, meet this week, and that could create a whole lot of volatility. Wall Street analysts and traders get it in their heads about the Federal Open Market Committee, the Fed’s rate-making body, will decide. And sometimes they’re right. Right now, the betting is on the Fed holding its key interest rate steady at 5.25% to 5.5% and signaling they’ll leave the rate unchanged at their meeting on Oct. 31 and Nov. 1 and maybe their last meeting in December. Because no one is suppos…
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