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Fed Slashes Key Interest Rate, and Stocks Soar
Article | The Federal Reserve took another aggressive step in its campaign to prevent a deep and devastating recession yesterday, cutting a key interest rate by three-quarters of a percentage point. The stock market staged its biggest rally in five years, with the Dow Jones industrial average rising 420 po...
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