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Bookmark or Share- What if the Fed doesn’t cut interest rates this year?Fed Chair Jerome Powell admitted as much last week when he said: “We’ll need greater confidence that inflation is moving sustainably towards 2.0% before it would be appropriate to ease policy.”
- The Fed just cut interest rates. Now what? | Capital Group“The language from Fed Chair Jerome Powell is just as important, and he struck a balanced tone consistent with a soft landing.” The Fed has now joined other major central banks including the European Central Bank, which began the process of lowering rates in June and did so again in September as inflation declined.
- Quantitative tightening: Where does it go from here?Fed Chair Jerome Powell also addressed the central bank’s plans for quantitative tightening (QT), indicating that it would soon begin slowing (or tapering) the rate at which it is shrinking its balance sheet, but did not provide details on when the taper would begin.
- U.S. economy poised for a soft landing. What comes next?The inflation battle isn’t over, as it remains above the Fed’s 2% target. However, it is close enough that Fed Chair Jerome Powell all but promised a rate cut during his highly anticipated speech in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, last week.
- Fed’s hawkish stance makes duration, TIPS look more attractiveFed Chair Jerome Powell repeated the hawkish message he delivered at Jackson Hole last month: The central bank will continue tightening policy until inflation decelerates convincingly toward its 2% target — and the bar is high for this path to change.
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