Last mentioned: Mar 13, 2026
Second Revision
The Commerce Department downgrades Q4 growth to 0.7%, citing weaker spending and investment.
Initial GDP Estimate
The government releases its first estimate of Q4 growth, showing a higher initial figure.
Q4 Begins
The fourth quarter starts amid high interest rates and cooling inflation.
The U.S. government has revised its fourth-quarter GDP growth estimate downward to a sluggish 0.7% annualized rate. This significant downgrade highlights a cooling economy as consumer spending and business investment face mounting pressure from high interest rates.
This page surfaces every story mentioning Federal Reserve across our finance coverage. We track each entity's appearance over time so readers can trace how the narrative evolves — which developments are isolated incidents, which build into longer arcs, and which reframe how operators in the space think about the entity. Story selection uses the same multi-source verification gate applied across the rest of our coverage.
Read our editorial methodology for how we identify, deduplicate, and score entity references. Our glossary defines the technical terms used across stories on this page, and our trends index contextualizes individual developments against the longer-running finance beat. Cross-entity comparisons live on our compare view.
| What you see | What it tells you |
|---|---|
| Story count | Number of distinct stories where Federal Reserve was a primary or referenced actor. |
| Recency clustering | Whether mentions are concentrated in a recent window (a news cycle) or distributed (a sustained arc). |
| Sentiment distribution | Aggregate sentiment of the stories mentioning this entity, weighted by impact score. |
| Cross-niche links | When the same entity surfaces in our sibling networks, we link to those views to enrich context. |