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Inflation has eased, but is still running high. Here's an easy way to tell if your savings account is losing ground, along with a simple move to help your money hold its value.

Thanks to its latest decision on Wednesday – its final one for 2025 – the Federal Reserve has now reduced its key overnight lending rate by 1.75 percentage points since it began its rate-cutting cycle in September 2024.