When the Fed meets on March 18th, how will they (if at all) adjust rates?

really? you guys think 50? with the DOW this week? I really think they are gonna flood it. I dont think that it will help but as best i can tell they dont have any better ideas, and they need to do something.

i think 75

Bloomberg is reporting there is 60% chance that it will be full percentage point.

Try this one:
NEW YORK, March 4 (Reuters) - Morgan Stanley said it now
expects the Federal Reserve to cut benchmark interest rates by
half a percentage point to 2.50 percent at its March 18 meeting
as growth worries eclipse inflation concerns. Previously, the investment bank had expected the Fed's
Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) to reduce the federal
funds rate by a quarter point.

I'm with Jers on this one.

they (reuters) are only saying that because us hubdubbers refuse to take positions on what 'they' say. we're an indepedent bunch, and we'll decide the outcomes.

Wake up sports fans! Bush does not want an over correction of the market!!! A 25-50 point drop of the market would be perfect. John Maynard Keynes would do the the 25-50 number if he were still alive!!! It is obvious!

but majority of the fed board (but not the chair, admittedly) want the add'l .25, and if they get their way, it'll drop .75. I'm hoping they do, because i've got $H placed.

Bush doesn't know Keynesian Theory. He's been of doing to little, to late. Look for 'bold' move to 'boost' the economy, even if it causes an overcorrection. When was the last time Bush and his cronies did something that actually made sense?

'been accused of'

i appreciate the Hdubers who are betting on the "increase by more than .25" option, thats really brave.

This question clearly asks: What will happen AT THE MEETING ON MARCH 18TH? -- NOT prior to the meeting and NOT after the meeting, but AT THE MEETING "when the Fed meets on March 18th" -- "how will they (if at all) adjust rates" AT THAT TIME?

Actually there is another hubdub question about BEFORE the meeting on March 18th:

http://www.hubdub.com/e/Market/Will_the_Fed_make_another_rate_cut_before_its_next_scheduled_meeting_on_March_18_1394/view

The Fed is infusing a lot of money into the economy for the banks and has ALREADY changed the rate as of today Monday (or was it yesterday). Are they really going to cut the rate a SECOND TIME this week on Tuesday??

The answer to this question is starting to become very obvious at this point. The cut has been done. So what will happen on March 18th will be No Change.

Apparently the cut this weekend was a different rate.. see discussion on previously mentioned:
http://www.hubdub.com/e/Market/Will_the_Fed_make_another_rate_cut_before_its_next_scheduled_meeting_on_March_18_1394/view
and
http://getsatisfaction.com/hubdub/topics/incorrect_settlement6

doesn't the market behave like an eight year old? It needs ice cream with chocolate frosting and ONLY that will do! As we talk, that previous model student and student council President Bears Stearn (top of the volleyball team too) is in the lower playground rec toilet smoking crack, cutting his hair off and putting it into little envelopes for relatives with instructions about which rap music to play at his funeral. Maybe an overly colourful analogy but I'm glad I don't work at the Bear where apparently company ownership was particularly high (ie Enron). My point is the market needs a clip over the ear and a ruler across the bum, which I assume those confused men in the high tower will do shortly after visiting a prostitute. Markets have nothing to do with rational Keynesian economics in this situation.

Whoa! We didn't do at all well on this one...only 16% probability of getting it right? Looks like most of us lost on this one.

75 it is