🚀 Gate Square “Gate Fun Token Challenge” is Live!
Create tokens, engage, and earn — including trading fee rebates, graduation bonuses, and a $1,000 prize pool!
Join Now 👉 https://www.gate.com/campaigns/3145
💡 How to Participate:
1️⃣ Create Tokens: One-click token launch in [Square - Post]. Promote, grow your community, and earn rewards.
2️⃣ Engage: Post, like, comment, and share in token community to earn!
📦 Rewards Overview:
Creator Graduation Bonus: 50 GT
Trading Fee Rebate: The more trades, the more you earn
Token Creator Pool: Up to $50 USDT per user + $5 USDT for the first 50 launche
The Fed lowered interest rates by 25 basis points as expected.
Summarized Powell's speech.
The U.S. economy is in a tug-of-war: inflation is stubborn, and employment is declining. Economic growth has dropped from 2.5% to 1.5%, the unemployment rate has risen to 4.3%, and the average monthly new jobs are only 29,000; however, inflation remains between 2.7% and 2.9%.
The Fed can only weigh: employment risk > inflation risk, so it slightly cut interest rates by 0.25% while continuing to reduce the balance sheet.
The forecast for the end of the year interest rate is 3.6%, and for 2027 it is 3.1%, which means that there should be two more rate cuts this year, but this is just a guess, not a commitment.
Summary of Powell's speech in one sentence: Rate cuts are a last resort to save jobs, but there is hesitation to fully open up.