Federal Reserve holds interest rates steady amid elevated inflation

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Federal Reserve holds interest rates steady amid elevated inflation

Oct 28, 6 AM ET to Oct 28, 6 PM ET · 1 outlet not rated for lean

32outlets carried it
🫏13 · 7 · 11🐘left · center · right
12 hourson the front pages
32front pages at once, at its peak
18 minof TV captions
12radio newscasts

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Oct 28, 6 AM ETfirst on a front page: AP
Oct 28, 8 AM ETfirst on TV: CNN
Oct 28, 10 AM ETfirst on the radio: NPR News Now
Oct 28, 5 PM ETpeak: on 32 front pages

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Oct 28, 6 AM to Oct 28, 6 PM ET (peak 32), by the outlets' lean: left · center · right · not rated

Who carried it and when: each outlet in the order it picked the story up, a bar for each headline from when we first saw it on the front page to when we last did, in the outlet's lean color (dashed: not rated); a dot marks a new headline. Beneath, its captions on TV, the radio newscasts that carried it (bigger: the lead) and when people were found retelling it. Hover for details.

📡 Wire copy

1 outlet ran the AP, Reuters headline nearly word for word

HuffPost

💬 Quoted

“Elevated”1
“accumulation of more information”1

phrases its headlines put in quotation marks; the bar is how many outlets did

📌 Linked by aggregators

3 Drudge Report · Google News · Political Wire

aggregators linking to it from their front page (they don't count as outlets covering it)

✏️ 14 outlets ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)

AP (4 wordings): “Federal Reserve likely to skip rate hike despite elevated inflation” → “Federal Reserve keeps rates unchanged despite elevated inflation”
Bloomberg (2 wordings): “Fed Says More Data Will Help Next Decision as It Stands Pat” → “Fed Says More Data Will Help Next Rate Decision as It Stands Pat”
Breitbart (3 wordings): “Fed Holds Rates Steady… …Warsh Announces New Type of Meeting” → “Fed Holds Rates Steady”
CNBC (6 wordings): “Fed expected to hold rates steady, but Warsh may point way to more hikes” → “Here are five key takeaways from the Fed rate decision and Warsh news conference”
Financial Times (3 wordings): “Fed to decide on interest rates as US midterm elections loom” → “Fed holds fire on interest rates despite intensifying inflation”
HuffPost (2 wordings): “U.S. Stocks Hold Steady As The Countdown Ticks To A Federal Reserve Decision On Interest Rates” → “Federal Reserve Keeps Rates Unchanged Despite Elevated Inflation”
New York Times (3 wordings): “The Fed Is Expected to Hold Rates Steady. Warsh Will Have to Explain Why.” → “Fed Holds Rates Steady Despite Lack of Progress on Inflation”
Newsmax (2 wordings): “Fed Holds Rates Steady Despite Surging Inflation” → “Stocks Advance as Fed Holds Key Rate Steady”
PBS NewsHour (2 wordings): “WATCH LIVE: Fed chair Warsh holds briefing after latest interest rate decision” → “WATCH: Warsh holds briefing after Fed leaves key interest rate unchanged”
Reuters (3 wordings): “S&P 500, Nasdaq advance as oil eases ahead of Fed decision” → “Wall Street ends higher as Fed holds key rate steady, focus turns to earnings”
The Epoch Times (2 wordings): “Fed Expected to Leave Interest Rates Unchanged Today” → “Federal Reserve Leaves Interest Rates Unchanged”
The Guardian (2 wordings): “Fed set to hold interest rates steady in last decision before midterms” → “Fed holds interest rates steady in last decision before midterms”
The Hill (3 wordings): “Fed likely to hold rates steady ahead of midterms” → “Federal Reserve holds interest rates steady in face of persistent inflation”
USA Today (3 wordings): “Fed to announce interest rate decision amid elevated inflation” → “Federal Reserve leaves interest rates unchanged ahead of midterms”