After waiting all year, the Federal Reserve has resumed its interest rate-cutting campaign.

As expected, the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) lowered the Federal Reserve's benchmark federal funds rate by a quarter point at its September meeting, bring the federal funds rate down inside a range of 4% to 4.25%.

While the decision was not surprising, investors were more interested in other parts of the meeting. The FOMC unveiled the Fed's latest dot-plot, showing where members of the FOMC expect the federal funds rate to trend in the future, and Fed Chair Jerome Powell held his regular post-meeting press conference, during which Powell called the Fed's most recent action a "risk management cut."

The stock market was certainly volatile following these events. Will this recent news push

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