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Mon Jun 16 2025

Daniel de Visé | Personal Finance Reporter

Good morning! It's Daniel de Visé with your Daily Money.

Will the Federal Reserve cut interest rates at its meeting this week?

President Trump has called on the Fed to sharply lower rates, a strategy that typically juices the economy and stock market, citing the European Central Bank's aggressive rate-cutting campaign over the past year.

But will the Fed follow his counsel?

Medical aid in dying: where it's legal, how it works

Dan Diaz and his wife, Brittany Maynard, took their dogs Charley and Bella for a walk the morning of Nov. 1, 2014, with their friends and family. Later that day, Maynard died.

Doctors found Maynard's brain tumor exactly 10 months prior, on New Year's Day. Within days of her cancer diagnosis, Maynard decided she wanted to move from California to Oregon to gain access to the state's medical aid in dying program.

Here's how the program works, and where it is offered.

The road to a perfect credit score

Perfect credit, or even really good credit, opens doors for American consumers: Better interest rates on loans. Better odds of renting an apartment or landing a job. Lower insurance premiums.

But how do you get there? All sorts of things can ding your credit score, from missed utility payments to maxed-out credit cards to errors on a credit report.

Here are five expert tips.

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About The Daily Money

Each weekday, The Daily Money delivers the best consumer and financial news from USA TODAY, breaking down complex events, providing the TLDR version, and explaining how everything from Fed rate changes to bankruptcies impacts you.

Daniel de Visé covers personal finance for USA Today.

Is the Fed losing a race with the European Central Bank to cut rates?

Christine Lagarde, the current president of the European Central Bank, sits alongside Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell.

Trump has griped the Federal Reserve is losing a contest with the European Central Bank to cut interest rates? Is it a contest? And is the Fed losing?

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