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The Standard & Poor's 500 Index was poised to extend its best monthly advance since 2003 after the government said the economy expanded at a 0.6 percent annual pace from January through March, faster than the 0.5 percent growth estimated by economists in a Bloomberg survey.
General Motors Corp. rallied after posting a narrower loss than analysts estimated.
Procter & Gamble Co., the world's largest consumer-products company, rose after earnings beat projections on higher prices and increased overseas sales.
Futures on the S&P 500 expiring in June rose 5.6, or 0.4 percent, to 1,396.9 at 8:43 a.m. in New York.
Dow Jones Industrial Average futures climbed 49 to 12,875.
Nasdaq-100 Index futures increased 8.25 to 1,947.25.
``If this is as bad as it gets or close to it, that means we may not have a recession but rather a growth slowdown, and that's good news,'' said Edgar Peters, chief investment officer at PanAgora Asset Management in Boston, which manages $25 billion.
``For the market it does help because it means that the worst fears aren't going to come through.''
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Vermutlich schmieren deshalb die Märkte jetzt ab, weil die Trader den Nachsatz gelesen haben. Vermutlich wird das aber in den nächsten Tagen positiv interpretiert: Die Krise ist vorbei, weil die FED nicht mehr senken "muss". ("Kann" wäre treffender)
The cut took the federal funds rate, the key overnight rate at which banks loan money to one another, to 2%. It had been at 5.25% as recently as September, when the Fed started slashing rates in an effort to spur the economy and keep the nation out of recession.
The federal funds rate is a benchmark for home equity lines of credit, credit cards and other consumer loans as well as the prime rate used for short-term business loans.
The Fed's statement repeated earlier ones about how rate cuts up to this point should help to spur the economy and lessen the risk of a downturn. But the central bank removed the following language form the current statement: "downside risks to growth remain."
The absence of that phrase, along with the new comment in the statement that "uncertainty about the inflation outlook remains high" led some experts to believe the central bank is signaling it is ready to pause on rates for some time.
"They haven't closed the door to further cuts, but they've shut it part way," said Mark Zandi, chief economist for Moody's Economy.com "They're saying they believe they've done enough."
Fed policymakers are not set to meet again until June 24 and 25, the longest gap in its calendar of meetings this year.
Zandi said he believes a pause is the proper policy for the Fed to take at this point.
"I think they've done a lot," he said. "They sense the financial system is on firmer footing. The economy is still weak, but the pace of decline doesn't seem like it's accelerating."
Some economists have pointed to the Fed's aggressive rate cuts this year as a key to why food and oil prices have skyrocketed lately. The fact that the Fed has cut rates while central banks in Europe and Asia have mostly kept rates steady has led to a weakening of the dollar. That, in turn, has driven up commodity prices.
"The Fed will be reluctant to cut any further, because inflation remains elevated, and they do not want inflationary expectations to increase," said Arun Raha, senior economist for Swiss Re.
Once again, two of the presidents of Fed district banks who sit on the rate-setting Federal Open Market Committee -- Richard Fisher of Dallas and Charles Plosser of Philadelphia -- voted against the rate cut, as they did at the March 18 meeting when the Fed cut rates by a half-point.
The statement said those two members preferred no change in rates. But the two of them joined other members in voting for a quarter-point cut in the discount rate, the rate at which the Fed lends money to commercial banks. 

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