Personal Finance
What will the Fed do?
Federal Reserve officials meet next Tuesday to discuss the pace of the economy and whether to lift short-term interest rates again.
1. What will Fed policy makers do with short-term interest rates on Tuesday?
Raise rates by a quarter percentage point
Raise rates by a half percentage point
Leave rates unchanged
Raise rates by more than a half percentage point
Lower short-term interest rates
2. Are the Fed's series of interest rate increases beginning to slow the U.S. economy down?
yes
no
maybe
3. Have higher interest rates prompted you to spend less money?
yes
no
4. Based on current predictions for more rate increases from the Fed, what are you doing with your investment portfolio?
Standing pat
Buying stocks
Selling stocks
Buying bonds
selling bonds
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