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Fed Signals It Will Not Raise Rates for Three More Years

Vows to Keep Rates Low for Longer Under Its New Flexible Inflation Targeting Regime. At the conclusion of the regularly scheduled meeting of its Open Market Committee, the Federal Reserve confirmed its decision to keep the target range for the federal funds policy rate between 0 and 0.25% to help the U.S. economy recover from the coronavirus pandemic. The Fed also provided strong forward guidance,...

Palm Beach County housing market snapshot with key real estate statistics.

Market Update June 2020

"More promising news for Palm Beach County! We are starting to see the housing market move towards normalcy. Although real estate was quickly deemed essential early in the pandemic, the virus did play a role in our numbers. Most would assume that the market would be derailed after months of social distancing, but new statistics point to a v-shaped recovery. There were 1,478 closed sales in June, which...