{"id":4304,"date":"2021-05-09T08:25:02","date_gmt":"2021-05-09T12:25:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/envisionco.net\/?p=4304"},"modified":"2021-05-09T08:25:02","modified_gmt":"2021-05-09T12:25:02","slug":"week-ending-4-30-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/envisionco.net\/?p=4304","title":{"rendered":"Week Ending 4\/30\/2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Highlights:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Federal Reserve held its key interest rate near zero and said it plans to continue supporting the economic recovery, while acknowledging recent progress in growth and employment.<\/li>\n<li>The Fed said &#8220;Inflation has risen, largely reflecting transitory factors.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>A burst of growth brought the U.S. economy to just a hair below its pre-pandemic size in the first quarter, extending what is shaping up to be a rapid, consumer-driven recovery this year.<\/li>\n<li>Gross domestic product, the nation\u2019s broadest measure of goods and services, grew at a 6.4% seasonally adjusted annual rate in January through March, the Commerce Department said Thursday. That left the world\u2019s largest economy within 1% of its peak, reached in late 2019 before the corona-virus pandemic hit the U.S.<span class=\"Fid_3\">Congress responded quickly, approving several packages totaling about $5 trillion in aid for households and businesses. The Federal Reserve pushed its<\/span><span class=\"Fid_3\">\u00a0benchmark interest rate to near zero to lower borrowing costs.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Highlights: The Federal Reserve held its key interest rate near zero and said it plans to continue supporting the economic recovery, while acknowledging recent progress in growth and employment. The Fed said &#8220;Inflation has risen, largely reflecting transitory factors.\u201d A &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/envisionco.net\/?p=4304\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1893,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/envisionco.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/envisionco.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/envisionco.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/envisionco.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1893"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/envisionco.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4304"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/envisionco.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4309,"href":"https:\/\/envisionco.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4304\/revisions\/4309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/envisionco.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/envisionco.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/envisionco.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}