Investment Instruments

The firms on this list have combined assets under management of $44.9 trillion.

Perception that bigger investors are hampered by bureaucracy, time inefficiencies.

For employees on the saving end, rather than the borrowing end, the rate cut might not be such good news.

"I don't see this ending gracefully," says Moody's Analytics chief economist.

Fed Chairman Jerome Powell called it a "mid-cycle adjustment policy."

The scale of the breach ranks it as possibly one of the largest-ever impacting a U.S. bank.