# @benzinga on YouTube

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- **Original URL:** https://youtube.com/watch?v=_7eMeB9wZ1E
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- **Posted:** 2026-09-21T16:49:43.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Benzinga | News That Moves (@benzinga) — https://gondola.cc/benzinga

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This wasn't the Fed's last move, it was the first. On Wednesday, September 16, 2026, the Federal Reserve raised its benchmark interest rate by 25 basis points to a target range of 3.75% to 4% the first hike since 2023 and the Federal Open Market Committee approved it unanimously, 12 to 0.
The bigger signal was in the projections, not the decision. Sixteen of the 18 Fed officials who submitted forecasts penciled in at least one more rate increase before the end of this year. The median 2026 federal funds rate projection landed at 4.1%, above the current midpoint, with a central tendency of 4.1% to 4.4%. That is the Fed saying in its own numbers that the direction has flipped.
In its post-meeting statement the committee said inflation remains elevated and that the action would support a timelier return to its 2% goal, pointing to price pressures driven in part by spiraling oil prices. After three officials favored a hike back at the July meeting, the whole voting committee came along in September.
Why it matters for investors: a rising-rate path repriced as a series rather than a one-off changes the math on long-duration growth equities, bonds, mortgages, and anything financed with floating-rate debt. Rate-sensitive sectors housing, small caps, speculative tech tend to feel it first, while banks and cash-heavy balance sheets can benefit. The key question now is the pace, not the direction, and every inflation and jobs print between now and December becomes a live catalyst.
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