"We're always going into this meeting and asking 'What's the right thing to do for the people we serve?' We do that and we make a decision as a group and then we announce it. That's always what it is,

Would Fed chair Jerome Powell opt for a measured, quarter percentage point change in rates, as he had for the last year? Or would he go big with a double-sized cut, signaling that the economy might be deteriorating faster than expected?

In the run-up to the presidential election, Donald Trump, the Republican nominee, has voiced his disapproval of the Federal Reserve’s recent decision to slash its benchmark interest rate by half a percentage point. Trump suggests this move could be indicative of a faltering U.S. economy or a politically motivated action.