The Federal Reserve on Wednesday almost certainly will lower interest rates for the first time in more than four years as the U.S. central bank starts to reverse the restrictive conditions it imposed to beat back inflation,

Here’s how inflation and the cost of borrowing have changed since the Fed started raising interest rates in March 2022. After peaking at 9.1% in June 2022, inflation has eased, falling to a three-year low of 2.5% in August, just above the Fed’s 2% target rate.

The Federal Reserve cut its key interest rates half a percentage point Wednesday, a strong move that reverses two years of rate increases and giving consumers new hope that borrowing costs will come down. Its target rate was 5.25% to 5.5%. It will now be in the range of 4.75% to 5%.